Dust off the old Paranoia Meter, we're getting deep into fear season again. The Republican scare machine is at full throttle over the Protect America Act. That's the bill in Congress to "reform" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to allow the administration to continue eavesdropping on our phone calls and email while granting retroactive immunity to the giant telecoms for their previous illegal assistance in illegal wiretapping.
The previous FISA reform expired last Saturday. The Senate bought into the White House fear-mongering and passed a new bill before taking a President's Day break, but the House, amazingly enough, didn't give in to White House's frantic hand-wringing. For the time being, at least, it appears the House Demos are holding firm against giving the telecoms immunity.
So the Republicans are dealing the fear card again.
House Republicans have launched a new website that has a nifty little counter to tell us how many days, hours, and minutes it has been "Since America Went Blind to New Terrorist Plots." (6 days, 14 hours, 7 minutes as of this moment.) I kid you not.
The site also features a doozy of a fear-mongering video ad, as well. Check this out, but keep the lights on and don't watch it alone:
Are you cowering under your bed like a good little American? Well, fear not. A clever graphics designer by the name of Lee Stranahan has whipped up a nice video response to the Repuglicans. This video is much more truthful:
I love it!
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