OBAMA JOINS MCCAIN IN SUPPORTING THE BUSH-CHENEY ADMINISTRATION'S ROLLBACK OF AMERICA'S CIVIL LIBERTIES

CHESTER COUNTY, PA – According to John Murphy, "Republicans in the 16th district along with those throughout the nation have long given up on neocons like George Bush and his congressional clones like Joe Pitts. In 2006 many Americans thought that the Democrat takeover of Congress would bring significant change. It brought nothing but continued war and misery abroad and economic and political devastation at home. Now, in what the television pundits like to call 'bipartisanship', Congressional Democrats and Republicans have finally succeeded in destroying the Fourth Amendment by cutting a deal on the updated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)".

The update would amend the spying law which regulates the president's ability to conduct domestic and international surveillance. The most vicious aspect of the new legislation is a section giving retroactive legal cover for telecommunications companies that may have broken laws and privacy contracts by giving the government access to customers' records and data.

"I was rather fond of the Bill of Rights" said John Murphy, "but now thanks to the Democrats and Republicans getting together and approving the USA Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, The Protect America Act and now the updated FISA law, the Bill of Rights has almost been completely redacted and without even the nicety of a constitutional amendment. So much for Obama and the Democrats suggesting that they will give us change. Obama says he is committing this travesty in the name of the bogus war on terrorism. In fact, it hands terrorists their greatest victory: the terrorists have destroyed, through the Democrats and Republicans (the inventors of the bogus war on terror), the civil liberties of the American people.

"Obama has shown himself to be as reckless as McCain when it comes to obliterating the civil liberties of the American people and closing the door to the prosecution of the Bush administration for the warrantless wiretapping of United States’ citizens. When I was studying for my degree in political science", continued Murphy, "we would refer to a politician like Obama as 'Machiavellian'. He has no moral compunction whatsoever when it comes to doing or saying whatever necessary to advance his own agenda: introducing Niccolo Obama". "

The revised FISA Bill was written with the telephone companies and internet providers at the table and for their benefit. They made huge campaign contributions to the Democrats and Republicans. They wanted immunity, and this bill gives it to them", concluded John Murphy the Independent Congressional Candidate in the 16th district.

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