Iowa Liberal

Holy smokes, how pathological is this? (via Crooks and Liars)

A bill introduced to the US House of Representatives would require ISPs to record all users’ surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely.

The bill, dubbed the Safety Act by sponsor Lamar Smith, a Republican congressman from Texas, would impose fines and a prison term of one year on ISPs which failed to keep full records.

Even in the minority Republicans try this stuff? Do they think they can slip it past the Democrats? Or use it to smear Democrats as “soft on child predators” because they don’t want all internet activity permanently recorded? May the Democrats in the House leap up and stomp on it like a kid squashing a bug.

It’s just funny…I comment again and again that the Republicans read 1984 and thought it was an instruction manual, but then somehow I tell myself, “Ah, they’ll learn to simmer down about total surveillance,” and relax my guard. As soon as I do that, one of them turns around and starts demanding telescreen installation.

It’s become impossible to get around the fact that the GOP is simply not on board with the Founding Fathers and what America is truly about. The huge overlap of security extremists and religious fundamentalists creats a huge bloc against the Constitution.

-jb

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