{"id":1882,"date":"2008-02-15T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2008\/02\/15\/liar-last-ditch-fearmongering-for-spying-and-telecom-immunity\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T21:29:36","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T01:29:36","slug":"liar-last-ditch-fearmongering-for-spying-and-telecom-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2008\/02\/liar-last-ditch-fearmongering-for-spying-and-telecom-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Liar! Last Ditch Fearmongering for Spying and Telecom Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Olbermann Countdown Special Comment on FISA: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2008\/02\/14\/countdown-special-comment-on-fisa-president-bush-is-a-liar-and-a-fascist\/\">President Bush Is A Liar And A Fascist<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lot of you, are the symbolic descendants of the despotic middle managers of some banana republic, to whom \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is an ironic brand name, a word you reach for, when you want to get away with its opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Mr. Bush, your panoramic invasion of privacy is dressed up as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153protecting America.\u00e2\u20ac\u009dThus, Mr. Bush, your panoramic invasion of privacy is dressed up as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153protecting America.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Mr. Bush, your indiscriminate domestic spying becomes the focused monitoring, only of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153terrorist communications.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Mr. Bush, what you and the telecom giants have done, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t unlawful, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just the kind of perfectly legal, passionately patriotic thing for which you happen to need immunity!<\/p>\n<p>Richard Clarke is on the money, as usual.<\/p>\n<p>That the President was willing to veto this eavesdropping, means there is no threat to the legitimate counter-terror efforts underway.<\/p>\n<p>As Senator Kennedy reminded us in December:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress does not change FISA. But he has also said that he will veto any FISA bill that does not grant retroactive immunity.<\/p>\n<p>    No immunity, no FISA bill. So if we take the President at his word, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s willing to let Americans die to protect the phone companies.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><br \/>\n[youtube width=&#8221;400&#8243; height=&#8221;330&#8243;]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QEcBjpsP1bU[\/youtube]<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Olbermann Countdown Special Comment on FISA: &#8220;President Bush Is A Liar And A Fascist&#8221; The lot of you, are the symbolic descendants of the despotic middle managers of some banana republic, to whom \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is an ironic brand name, a word you reach for, when you want to get away with its opposite. Thus, Mr. Bush, your panoramic invasion of privacy is dressed up as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153protecting America.\u00e2\u20ac\u009dThus, Mr. Bush, your panoramic invasion of privacy is dressed up as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153protecting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2008\/02\/liar-last-ditch-fearmongering-for-spying-and-telecom-immunity\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,10,3],"tags":[2135,4819,1434,284,1999,1377,4818,1381],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armchair-activism","category-alien-nation","category-human-rights","category-politics","tag-civil-rights","tag-fearmongering","tag-fisa","tag-george-w-bush","tag-illegal-surveillance","tag-spying","tag-telecom-immunity","tag-veto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}