President Bush has suggested that we are in danger of being attacked on American soil by terrorists this week because the House of Representatives declined to rush to pass a conference version of the FISA Amendments Act, a law that, when passed, will give George W. Bush the power to spy against any American’s electronic communications, as well as the power to search through Americans’ homes and businesses without any search warrant.
The FISA Amendments Act makes the totalitarian powers of the Protect America Act permanent, and even extends them.
But, if we’re really in danger, where are the terrorists? It’s day 3 now of George W. Bush’s week of terrorist peril, and there has been no terrorist attack. Osama Bin Laden hasn’t even released a video or anything. Oh, there was another bombing, but that was in Afghanistan.
You remember Afghanistan. That was the place where the war was supposed to have been won six years ago.
So far, it looks like we can do without the Protect America Act or the FISA Amendments Act. While we’re at it, why doesn’t the House of Representatives get to work at the task of repealing the Military Commissions Act and the Patriot Act?
It’s time for a return to freedom, and an abandonment of fear. It is time for Congress to come out of its bunker.
