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Don't Let Them Get Away With Reading Your Email!

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Submitted by rkamens on Wed, 2008-01-23 21:04.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ben Kroetz, TrueMajorityAction
Date: Jan 23, 2008 12:03 PM
Subject: Don't let them get away with reading your emails
To: 2600denver@gmail.com

TrueMajorityACTION
Telecom companies should be held responsible for illegal spying

Tell the Senate: No immunity for giant telecom companies.

Take Action
Tomorrow, the Senate will begin debate -- again -- on whether or not to give immunity to giant telecom companies that helped the NSA illegally listen to your phone conversations and read your emails.1

The White House is fighting hard for their friends in the industry, but it's up to the Senate to do the right thing. We cannot allow our basic civil liberties to be ignored. Tell your Senators today that you expect them to hold the telecom companies responsible for their actions.

Tell the Senate: No immunity for giant telecom companies.

http://act.truemajorityaction.org/t/50/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1223

The House has already passed a version of the bill that does NOT include immunity. Now it's time for the Senate to do the same. Don't let the White House bully the Senate into trampling our basic civil liberties. While the government issued the order, it was up to the telecom companies to decide whether or not to break the law. Those that did should be held responsible.

In this country it takes a warrant to listen to the private conversations of American citizens. End of story.

They better be listening now,

Ben Kroetz
TrueMajorityAction.org Online Organizer

1. "Democrats Try to Delay Eavesdropping Vote," New York Times, January 23, 2008

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