I voted for Barack Obama despite his sup­port for the FISA tele­com immu­nity amend­ment, but I was never really happy doing so. I guess I was hop­ing he’d even­tu­ally change his mind and sup­port the Con­sti­tu­tion and Bill of Rights. So far, how­ever, I’ve been hop­ing in vain. But there was still a chance that suit brought by the EFF and ACLU would hold the tele­coms liable for their war­rant­less sur­veil­lance would do what the Pres­i­dent would not. Sadly, a Fed­eral judge has thrown out the war­rant­less sur­veil­lance law­suit using the FISA bill as jus­ti­fi­ca­tion. We can only hope an appeal will restore the free­doms our for­bear­ers fought so hard for.

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