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"If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone, 'America died from a delusion that she has moral leadership.' Will Rogers
____________________________________________________ I don't think Freedom is free, or that safety is the safest way to live. Putting the Constitution in the closet for four years is a mistake. Trying to ignore the 4th Amendmant during times like this is a bigger mistake.

Courage can become a habit but you will never overcome your fear. I never have and hope I never do because my fear is what keeps me alert to the loss of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Mr. Leahy: We should be clear at the outset that while the sunset applies to the expanded surveillance authorities under FISA, it does not apply to other controversial provisions in the bill. As originally passed by the House, the sunset did not apply to the provisions on sharing grand jury information with intelligence agencies, in section 203(a), and the so- called ``sneak and peak'' authority for surreptitious search and seizure, in section 213. The final bill, H.R. 3162, removes two more provisions from the sunset--the expanded scope of subpoenas for records of electronic communications, in section 210, and the new authority for pen registers and trap and trace devices in criminal investigations, in section 216.

This should have been an act of political suicide for any of our political leadership that supported this abomination. If we the people do not make it so...then we deserve what we are going to get.