begin quoting Rick Funderburg as of Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:41:25PM -0700: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Paul G. Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > DJA wrote: > > > >> Lan Barnes wrote: > >> > >>> Yup. They're joining the ACLU. Two of my favorite organizations. (A list > >>> that the '06 Congress, alas, is not on.) > >>> > >> > >> Me too. My other list grew quite a bit longer last week with the passing > >> of the FISA bill: the list of impeachable traitors. > >> > >> > > Including Obama. There seem to be few congress critters that have a clue as > > to what their office is about and what the Constitution really says (and if > > they do, they don't give a damn). > > The good: Obama did support bill ammendments that removed the immunity. > The bad: When those measures failed, he caved and voted for both cloture and > for the bill itself.
Questions I'm interested in: (a) what else was in the bill that might have been useful? (b) is it reasonable to assume that the supreme court would eliminate the immunity provisions as being an ex-post-facto law, or is that ruling in doubt? (c) what's the likely economic impact of the telco companies having to defend themselves (win or lose) from dozens/hundreds/thousands of lawsuits? -- Don't color me happy. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
