Good night, Big Brother

[baavgai]

I've mentioned before my uneasiness with the US's steady course towards an Orwellian dystopia. The signs have constantly appeared in the media, only to vanish like so many dissident ghosts. It's damn depressing. However, recently, things have been looking up.

It's been apparent over the last few months, with the power shift in Congress, that the terrorist mongering fascist contingent is no longer having its way unchallenged. Today the secret police got their plug pulled.

For the first time, in a long time, I'm relieved by a new law of the land.

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I hope the senate passes it, too, and if Bush uses a "signing statement," that they pound it into the ground.

[baavgai.livejournal.com]

I'd like to think that this would get the coverage it deserves and thus make it politically unwise to strike down. However, media has often managed to willfully ignore important issues in favor of what the tart du jour is doing. Fingers crossed.

[handymonkey]

The first line in the article makes me crazy. "...today passed a bill outlawing illegal domestic wiretapping..." So, we've made it illegal to do something illegal? Great. That's progress. :-\

[baavgai.livejournal.com]

Yep.

Those engaged in such activity seem to feel that they are functioning under a implicit war time exceptions. After all, we passed the Patriot Act; twice. The president said it was ok, in spite of every legal analyst saying it's not.

Of course, just because something's illegal doesn't mean it won't happen. You'd just hope that a government would honor it's own laws. That it would ultimately have to.