What do we do to support the repeal of this unconstitutional law?

Party like it's 1999!

This is the most constructive and potentially powerful issue. It is the 'tipping point' to demonstrate the two americas that John Edwards spoke to during his run. If we don't know how to make political capital from this, we might as well hang it up.

How to get more traction, more credibility, and more mo' (momentum)

1) More Mo' - Throw a party. Get artists involved. The cartoonists, the graphic folks, the web designers, the writers and the musicians. That would produce the framing, the positioning, and graphically (pun SO intended) limn the differences 'twixt the old way of Stalin and Samoza and the "Free Speech Express"

More Traction: Let's throw a party! Suggest we create "Listen UP! or "Free Speech Express" immediately. This could be a music and lifestyle get together similar to the XGames meets Lollapalooza, with participation from all the different stakeholders in free speech. Heck, let's make it for skateboarders and stakeholders.

due to stupid restrictions of the Patriot Act, fireworks are now horribly restricted. we could create Sky Concerts for our Rights, and light the sky with the Rockets Red Glare of freedom...

More Credibility: Suggested Free Speech proponents should be empowered with blogs,PR, platforms/pulpits and position pieces - the proverbial talking points. A good song has tremendous resonance. Maybe Bruce or JayZ would each write something. I'll work my contacts in the biz. A couple great big concerts, get togethers, festivals during the conventions would be cool. We could have the Raging Grannies, fo' sure.

Please feel free to suggest appropriate candidates - judges, artists, directors, musicians, and so forth. Who doesn't like free speech? Hmmmm.

tactics/positioning: we have to pivot the discussion away from privacy and spying and terrorism, and reposition it as good americans vs. sleazy nixon lying snidely whiplash profiteering phonies to keep us down by peeping in our windows and peering over our fences and rooting through our trash, and quizzing our neighbors, and picking our pockets - there is a direct correlation to a properly cowed populace and the wild spikes in costs of fuel, oil, food, energy (remember Enron?) and all the other basics.

Let's make it a party. We still have a couple months of good weather. everybody on this panel knows someone who is a performer, a lawyer, an artist. I will do what I can, and get some action started. can we get a separate thread/blog going on this?

Thoughts?

So just like his pork hunting expeditions that he never voted on...

You remember those Bears and that bridge to somewhere...

ARGH...

Vote Baldwin then we will have someone with VETO balls in the Whitehouse if he get nut'n else done in the four years.

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I can see that writing letters to your Senators here in Wyoming is as effective as writing them to the Senators I had in Utah. Useless. At least one of them isn't named "Orrin Hatch." I can take condolences from that.

--Aaron
The Militant Libertarian
http://www.MilitantLibertarian.org

God forbid anyone of us gives their opinion of this Government and sounds to radical saying it.. they just may be listening....Just my opinion, mine alone.....

The vote, 69 to 28, ended a nearly one-year debate pitting lawmakers who support greater surveillance powers for the U.S. government against civil libertarians and privacy advocates who fear the law sacrifices freedom and the ability to oversee government for vague assurances of security. When President Bush signs the bill into law, as experts expect him to, nearly 40 lawsuits pending against communications firms will effectively be scuttled.

"It is an immeasurable tragedy that just after its return from the Fourth of July holiday, the Senate has chosen to pass a bill that betrays the spirit of 1776 by radically expanding the president's spying powers and granting immunity to the companies that colluded in his illegal surveillance program," Kevin Bankston, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), said in a statement.

Revising the 30-year-old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has preoccupied Congressional leaders and the Bush Administration ever since the New York Times revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) had broadly eavesdropped on telephone and Internet communications. The agency had allegedly installed special rooms equipped with wiretapping hardware in important communications hubs with the blessing of major telecommunications firms. A whistleblower has claimed that AT&T had one such room, while a security consultant recently stated that a major cellular telecommunications company allowed a third party to directly connect, via a line known as the "Quantico circuit," into their systems.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) passed in 1978, requires that all government surveillance for intelligence purposes must first be sanctioned by a court order allowing the eavesdropping from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). The secretive court, which rarely issues rulings, also allows emergency warrants up to 72 hours after surveillance has begun. Some critics have argued that the 72-hour limit is not long enough to file and get approved a warrant; the latest bill gives intelligence officials up to 7 days to apply for certification and the judge 30 days to approve the surveillance.

Truemensa

" You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom."
~Clarence Darrow~

" It Becomes A Contest Of Power; Those Who Have Money And Those Who Have People~
We Have Nothing But People. "
~Saul Alinsk

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And this guy wants to President of the United States?
Whats going on here?

He is nothing but a Puppet for the Elite!

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.. later