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By Jeralyn, Section War on Terror
Posted on Tue Jan 31, 2006 at 11:56:25 AM EST
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You've heard of "no-call" lists to keep telemarketers at bay. Now you can sign up for a "no-spy" list, courtesy of ProgressNow Action.

If you have found little to laugh about over President Bush's illegal domestic spying program, turn up your speakers and click here to watch ProgressTV's 2 minute Bush Spy Video. Then take action to protect your privacy.

Over 50 million American citizens in twenty-eight states already are signed on to telephone "No-Call Lists" that protect them from unwanted telemarketing calls. But when it comes to protecting ourselves from being spied on by President Bush and the National Security Agency we have no protections.

Until Now. To ask for protection from unwanted domestic eavesdropping, click this form to sign up for the No-Spy List:

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    Sign Up for the No-Spy List | 7 comments (7 topical)
    Re: Sign Up for the No-Spy List (none / 0) (#1)
    by scarshapedstar on Wed Feb 01, 2006 at 10:41:32 AM EST
    Ten bucks says everyone who signs this list starts getting searched every time they fly.

    Re: Sign Up for the No-Spy List (none / 0) (#2)
    by glanton on Wed Feb 01, 2006 at 11:25:38 AM EST
    I guess we wouldn't be so worried about this if we were having "appropriate conversations." So says the American voter. You know guys, the Bill of Rights was never designed to protect itself. It and the Declaration and Constitution etc. all find themselves wholly contingent upon a populace willing to value and uphold the values they represent. That has ceased to be the case. Maybe we the American people deserve to be spied on. Maybe we deserve everything we're getting. And don't rebut with this, 'oh, but 48% or so of us don't want it,' because you know what, at the end of the day moist of you still buy into this "we're all Americans" crap that Kerry himself peddled in his concession speech. You are what you associate with. Stay alert and stay with Fox.

    Re: Sign Up for the No-Spy List (none / 0) (#3)
    by glanton on Wed Feb 01, 2006 at 11:33:24 AM EST
    And just in case the words "moist [sp] of you" threw anybody into thinking I exclude myself from the mess, let me relieve you of that. No bastion of integrity in this quadrant. I remain here, participating in the concrete jungle, but not so out of some deluded feeling of patriotism. It's more like I'm here cause I'm here. Pretty mundane.

    Re: Sign Up for the No-Spy List (none / 0) (#4)
    by Edger on Wed Feb 01, 2006 at 02:28:29 PM EST
    I remain here, participating in the concrete jungle, but not so out of some deluded feeling of patriotism. It's more like I'm here cause I'm here. Not so mundane, glanton, I think. You know it's a game, this "participating in the concrete jungle". You do it wide awake, knowing that. In that knowledge you're far and away more enlightened than most, even knowing that the enlightenment itself is a game...

    Re: Sign Up for the No-Spy List (none / 0) (#5)
    by glanton on Wed Feb 01, 2006 at 03:45:02 PM EST
    edger, I appreciate the kind words, but I don't feel very enlightened. I feel depressed as hell whenever I think about where we are and where we're going. America always had problems, and big ones, but when those polls started coming out showing that more than half the country is open to being straight-up wiretapped, I knew in that moment I was a fool to think in terms of "countrymen." I share no cause of any kind, no inherent sympathy, with a populace cheerfully willing to be spied upon. So now it's like we're all just occupying the same spot of dirt. Perhaps more "enlightened" sounding, perhaps even "existential" sounding, but ultimately, nothing so much as it is a downer. Peace.

    Re: Sign Up for the No-Spy List (none / 0) (#6)
    by Edger on Wed Feb 01, 2006 at 03:58:08 PM EST
    glanton, the other day I said in the PTSD thread that: The U.S is still a country where people grow up taught that the president is a leader, an honest man dedicated to preserving freedom, and defending the constitution, the country, and it's citizens. They want to believe it. more than half the country is open to being straight-up wiretapped, I knew in that moment I was a fool to think in terms of "countrymen." I think that what I said above applies here as well. You, and I and others here spend extreme amounts of time and energy staying extremely well informed. Most people don't know they can, don't know how to, or just don't have time, I think. Don't be too hard on yourself... Peace to you too.

    Re: Sign Up for the No-Spy List (none / 0) (#7)
    by jondee on Fri Feb 03, 2006 at 01:06:19 PM EST
    The truth is that avenging furies plague the Romans eversince the earth was soaked with innocent Remus's blood. Horace

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