V of X. Sense and Consequence - ACCS and FCC
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2 March 2008
V of X. Sense and Consequence - ACCS and FCC
With one of the most fundamental American rights - civil liberty - the consumer public is again compromised as recent reportings of legally sanctioned eavesdropping becomes imminent (David Lazarus, "Our civil liberties lose this round," Los Angeles Times, 20 February 2008). According to Lazarus' report:
"President Bush has been pushing hard to give the likes of AT&T and Verizon immunity for their roles in any past and future eavesdropping on the American people. Lawmakers left the matter hanging when they went on recess..."
The main problem here is not just the issue of eavesdropping and the horrendous encroachment on our privacy rights that this entails, but more so the key word - future -in this immunity.
So does this mean that these companies - and who knows what other companies - plan on eavesdropping on the American public in perpetuity and without consequence?
Furthermore, with private companies such as the American Corrective Counseling Services (ACCS) misrepresenting itself as the district attorney's office to "go after people who bounced checks" (ibid) and claiming 'sovereign immunity' in the process, the encroachment on the consuming public's civil liberties is further perpetrated.
So rather than accountability and transparency from our government and our public 'watchdogs', we are instead faced with bullying tactics and a reality colored more fascist/totalitarian than democratic.
America - the land of everything except the free...
Finland, please help!
