At this time Congress is debating various amendments on the Cheney/Rockefeller FISA bill. Among others, these amendments include retroactive legal immunity for US Telecom companies that may have illegally given the US government private customer phone records. Retroactive immunity is a concept that is better now in totalitarian forms of Government and is of questionable constitutional validity. I am proud that one of the representatives of my current home state of New Jersey, Rep. Rush Holt (a fellow physicist) had the courage to make this statement today:
Then there is the courageous Sen. Russ Feingold explaining in simple but precise terms what it is that our current government is after:
Is this "Trust us" Government what we want?
