Dick Cheney Wants Access to Your E-mail

[helderheid]

It’s true. Dick Cheney and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) have agreed that the government should be able to access Americans' conversations and emails without getting an individualized warrant. But that isn’t all they’re after.

Under the guise of responding to the NSA spying scandal, the Bush administration and its allies in Congress are actually pushing for new ways to invade your privacy, with unprecedented and dangerous spying legislation crafted under Dick Cheney’s supervision.

The bad news is, if these bills pass, our homes, cell phone records and email inboxes will be laid bare to new kinds of government spying that are currently completely illegal. The good news is that we have a chance to stop these bills now, before White House pressure drives them to a speedy vote.

This August you can help generate a public outcry that will make Congress think twice before they hand over even more power to the Bush administration. Call your member of Congress today, and get the word out in your local community with a letter to the editor.

This legislation is being characterized by some as "surveillance we can live with," but the fact is it would vastly expand the government's power to search and spy on Americans without any judicial checks, including reading any email you send if the government does not know where all the recipients are physically located.

Don’t be deceived by claims the Cheney-Specter bill restores judicial review. The legislation really tries to make warrants optional while allowing a secret court to rubber-stamp surveillance of Americans, without even knowing the names of Americans to be wiretapped or whether they’ve done anything wrong. We are running advertisements and working with every contact we have in the major news outlets to counteract the government’s spin, but we need your help.

If you’ve had enough of an administration that’s proven itself grossly indifferent to the rule of law and the balance of power time and time again, on issues from warrantless spying, to secret kidnapping, to the unlawful treatment of Guantanamo detainees, now is the time to say “NO MORE.”

Just last week, President Bush and Attorney General Gonzales were pushing Congress to rubber-stamp a new plan for military commissions at Guantanamo that would violate U.S. law and the Geneva conventions, flying in the face of the recent Supreme Court ruling striking down the entire Bush-sponsored system of detainee trials.

Use the links above to learn more about the Cheney-backed proposals and get involved during this critical month of action. You can help get out the truth about this bill and the dangers it poses.

Throughout August, we’ll be calling on you to help cut through the White House spin and tell Congress how toxic these bills are to our basic freedoms. They need to hear the wave of opposition while they’re on their summer break. And we’re counting on you to help turn the tide, by speaking out at home and online.

Thank you for standing with us.

Sincerely,

Anthony D. Romero
Executive Director
American Civil Liberties Union


SAY “NO MORE” TO THE ABUSE OF POWER

This August, you can send a strong message to your lawmakers that you’re fed up with the Bush administration’s abuse of power and expect them to do something about it. Take action this month, and cross off the following items as you go:

Your August To-Do List

Right now:


1.Call your Member of Congress

2. Send a letter to the editor

3. Host a viewing party of the ACLU’s Stop the Abuse of Power DVD. We’ll send you the DVD for free!

4. Get 10 friends to sign up for the ACLU’s action list

5. If you aren’t already a card-carrying member of the ACLU, join today.

You’ll be hearing more from us about these items in the weeks ahead:

1. Find out where your member of Congress is speaking and show up with a list of questions.

2. Plan to host or attend a Constitution Day event in September.

[LTR]

1. Shit, let him have it

I've got a Hotmail spam box that's his for the taking.

Perhaps he could find some interest in the offers for penile enhancement drugs.

[acmejack]

10. If cheney took a penile enhancement drug he would turn into the Hulk!

A frightening concept indeed.

[TorchTheWitch]

20. Ok, who's got that Cheney photo

that makes it appear as though he tucked the entire hosiery deptartment of Bloomingdale's in his shorts?

Anyone?

[acmejack]

32. I've seen that.

I maintain it is a colostomy bag.

[BuyingThyme]

25. He already has it. Specter is trying to un-illegalize it.

[AntiFascist]

35. What if they decide to spy on Democratic election strategy....

because it would be in their "national interest"? Remember Watergate.

[meisje]

2. If they are asking for permission, that means it has already happened

[pagerbear]

3. my thoughts 'zackly!

[helderheid]

4. agreed

[paparush]

9. DING! DING! DING!! We have a winner!!! nt

[EFerrari]

23. Yes. That is their pattern. n/t

[Nikki Stone 1]

24. Correct

Bastards.

[BuyingThyme]

27. Yep.

[CrispyQ]

5. Like Bill Maher said last night,

we'll have to go back to communicating like when we talked to our dealers. "Yeah, I want 2 more shirts like last time. But clean ones this time. The last ones had a lot of seeds in them." :rofl:

But all kidding aside, this is a serious issue & your post reminds me that I am due to pay my ACLU membership fees.

[MazeRat7]

28. All my "revolutionary" talk is encrypted...all they would get is spam. n/t

[TechBear_Seattle]

6. They're free to look at my email

All of my important stuff is encrypted anyway, and they'll have to "disappear" me and send me to Guantanamo before I let them have my decrypt phrase.

[EstimatedProphet]

7. Let me guess-this is to protect us from terrorists

Why does Cheney think that Americans are terrorists?

[genieroze]

15. Why not, Gingrich called us insurgents.

Newt Gingrich Considers Political Opposition, American Citizens, to be an ''Insurgency''
A. Alexander, August 7th, 2006

Some have expressed concern over Newt Gingrich's use of the term "insurgency", while referring to Ned Lamont supporters in Connecticut. From a personal perspective, Gingrich was correct in obliquely referring to America's blogosphere and directly Lamont supporters, as being an "insurgency". Gingrich, of course, meant the term to be derogatory and a means of linking those that oppose Bush's war follies with terrorists. Still, Crazy Newt the serial divorcer was correct in more ways than he fully understands and, too, revealed the Neo-Conservative agenda in a clear and yet, unintended way.

That Gingrich would openly refer to those who oppose Bush-Republican Neo-Conservative madness as being an "insurgency" is, in a very real sense, the first public admission that the Bush regime and Republicans are at war with the American people. It is a blatant confession of the ultimate Neo-Conservative agenda, i.e. a deliberate and swift movement toward a very real Executive dictatorship wherein those who dissent or disagree are "the enemy" or members of an "insurgency". Gingrich's use of the term "insurgency" when referring to fellow Americans reveals in no uncertain terms the reality that the Neo-Cons recognize a movement forming that consists of the American people and that is designed to directly challenge their drive toward a nationalist imperialistic dictatorship.

Open and truly democratic governments don't view their political opponents as "enemies" whose opposition is looked upon as an "insurgency", and they certainly don't feel a need to be at war with the people they govern. For Gingrich, Bush, Republicans and the entire Neo-Conservative movement; however, the reality is that the American people are increasingly questioning their "right to rule" and are, therefore, considered enemies or, as Newt Gingrich more aptly said, an "insurgency".

The fact of the matter is that Newt Gingrich is right! There is no better way of defining and describing those American citizens who have formed and continue forming a direct and spirited opposition to the Neo-Conservatives' madness, as being anything other than an "insurgency". Bush and Republicans have busied themselves at the task of disregarding American laws; International laws; have committed war crimes; lied to the American people in order to engage in war with Iraq; unilaterally exempted themselves from the Constitution; committed treason by revealing an undercover CIA agent's name; undermined a free press; illegally spied upon American citizens; instituted a policy of merging church and state; stacked the courts with nefarious individuals that would knowingly and willingly support an Executive dictatorship; provided their crony pals with government appointments and large government contracts that have resulted in grotesque profits without services being provided; raped the nation's treasury; supported big oils' obscene profit taking at the expense of the American people; left New Orleans to rot and refused to help while more than 1,300 citizens perished, and through stygian deception refused to hold anyone to account.

http://progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1231

[TechBear_Seattle]

16. Why does Cheney think that Americans are terrorists? Simple...

It is the paranoia of a guilty conscience.

[Hubert Flottz]

8. If he's watching me he's wasting your tax money that should be...

used to protect the country. Frivolous bullshit!

Edit...I just mooned the old asshole.

[walldude]

11. Is there anyone who doesn't think they already have it?

I mean come on people, do you really think you are not being monitored? This reminds me of the movie Enemy Of The State, Gene Hackman: "They are monitoring every phone call in America, you are talking to your wife in Cleveland or somewhere, you say the words Bomb, terrorist or Allah a computer logs it and marks the conversation for examination, and that was 20 years ago."

[Vinca]

12. Here's an interesting tidbit about the NSA and email,

Dan Brown, the Davinci Code author, also wrote a book called Digital Fortress. It was written in 1998 and is about the NSA and its ability to read everyone's email. It's a great read, but it's making me wonder how he got his idea and who he talked to. You might find it interesting.

[Fleshdancer]

13. What's he going to do if I say no? Shoot me in the face?

Oh wait...nevermind.

:yoiks:

[Quantess]

14. How ridiculous.

What, they want to see who has photos of B*sh photoshopped to look like a chimp? They want to see who's getting spam about horny co-eds and viagra?

Such a waste of taxpayer money!

[OneBlueSky]

17. so theoretically, a state of national emergency could be declared . . .

and executive orders issued prohibiting criticism of the government . . . and anyone who e-mails something critical of BushCo could be subject to arrest and incarceration at one of the new FEMA camps . . .

far-fetched? . . . not if you've been paying attention . . .

[grace0418]

18. Dick Cheney can suck my left one.

Actually, no he can't. I don't want his slimy ass anywhere near me.

[negativenihil]

19. Oh really?

Tell ya what Dick - if you wanna waste a ton of NSA computing time cracking my every day 2048bit and my uber custom 4096bit GPG DSA keys - have at it.

[elehhhhna]

21. A compromise: if he can fit thru the internet tubes, he can see my email.

[BuyingThyme]

22. Specter should be locked in a small box and given bread and water

until he passes on.

[EFerrari]

29. Are we sure he's still with us? n/t

[Eric J in MN]

26. K & R.

NT

[4nic8em]

30. So what?...

I want access to his bank book.

[Ghost in the Machine]

31. FUCK Dickhead Cheney.. and the *rest* of the GOPranos

IMPEACH THESE FASCIST BASTARDS NOW!!!

[Swamp Rat]

33. FUCK YOU DICKHEAD CHENEY!! COME AND GET ME YOU LIZARD COCKSUCKER!!

[pecwae]

38. I must second that. nt

[Canuckistanian]

34. "The Cheney-Specter Bill"

It even sounds scary. :scared:

[helderheid]

36. doesn't it??

[drfresh]

37. I want access to Dick Cheney's email

So I can read about how he and Boosh plan to f*** up the country next.

[mom cat]

39. LINK PLEASE .... THANKS!