the buck stops… over there

by Levi Crump

Published: March 18, 2008

After I finished reading the important news stories like Nancy Reagan falling down in her house, I stumbled across a headline that, due to the hullabaloo of Nancypants falling down, I must have overlooked. Apparently, Congress, specifically the House, has once again allowed the terrorists to win.

Since midnight of Sunday, February 17, 2008, in order to wiretap a phone conversation or hack a computer, the attorney general and director of national security have had to revert to getting warrants from the Super Secret Hidden Commando Secret Wiretap Court.

And surprise of all surprises, the House is blaming President Bush for something they didn’t do on time. Some former-U.S.-attorney-sorry-excuse-for-an-American Senator gave the Democratic response to Bush. She gave some mumbo-jumbo about how Congress “works.” But I stopped reading it after the second line.

The so-called clincher is that this round of bills includes legal protection, retroactive and proactive, for the cooperating (read: patriotic) telecommunications companies. In other words, it would make it illegal to sue any of the telecom companies who love their country. It’s simple: if the telecom companies are afraid of being sued they won’t cooperate, if they won’t cooperate then the government cannot listen in to terrorist activity, and if the Feds can’t drop their eaves wherever they like… then all our base are belong to Osama.

If you’re asking, “If the companies aren’t doing anything illegal, then why do they need legal protection?”, then I’ve got a question for you: why do you hate your own country?

If you’re not thoroughly convinced and scared about the lack of concern of Congress, here’s something from the President himself. And I don’t care if some report says that he and his administration lied to us 935 times, he’s still the most trustworthy man I know:

“At this moment, somewhere in the world terrorists are planning a new attack on America. And Congress has no higher responsibility that ensuring we have the tools to stop them. Thank you for listening.”

No, George, thank you for listening.

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