Justice Department backs telcom immunity

Maybe President Obama doesn't support telcom immunity, but his Justice Department sure as hell does.

I sensed trouble when Obama appointed someone from the Clinton administration like Eric Holder as Attorney General, considering the Clinton White House's disappointing record on personal freedom. True to form, the Holder-led Justice Department is now defending a law that shields telcom firms from lawsuits regarding their conspiring with the Bush regime to spy on phone communications.

A Justice Department spokesperson said the department is defending this law because it "is the law of the land, and as such the Department of Justice defends it in court."

Not if it's unconstitutional, you don't.

Obama has opposed immunity, yet when he was a senator he voted for the immunity bill. The supposed reasoning is that the bill also included some goodies that had nothing to do with immunity. Obviously, however, the real reason is that there was so much arm-twisting going on by the Bush regime, the Republicans, and the DLC.

But immunity wasn't legal before, and it's not constitutional even now.

The rubber-stamping of tyranny crawl continues. Why? Because we've been programmed into letting it. In the past month, America has made inroads into reversing Bush's extremism. But I'm convinced our liberty won't be fully restored to what it was unless there's another shakeup at the Justice Department.

I'm also convinced that if Cynthia McKinney had been elected, nobody in her administration would be backing telcom immunity. Those who insisted a vote for McKinney was a vote for McCain can't say I didn't warn them of the DLC's dominance in the Democratic Party.

We may just have to place the real power in the hands of the states. The states should prosecute the telcom companies, and if the federal government says no, that's when the states are going to have to pass bills to say where they stand.

I think maybe the next symbol to add to the key to this blog should be one for the scourge of telcom immunity.

(Source: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/02/obama-adminis-1.html)