New Toon: Cumbersome FISA Laws

click to enlarge

One thing I love in the whole wiretapping debate is the argument that FISA is sufficient for what the President wants to do. Of course it is! It's a secret court that rubber stamps nearly every single request made for surveillance. The evidence is allowed to remain secret and be shown days after spying has commenced. By "shown," I mean physically held up and declared to be evidence. It doesn't have to be perused by a Judge--for all he knows it's a stack of drawings from a three year old child of a NSA employee who want to unload some crappy art in the shredder rather than deface his fridge.

Bush wanted, and the Democrats granted him, more power. For what?

For a more complete and cogent take on what was done, check out this Alternet article. Also: cartoon by Brian.

Advertisement: Do you have a copy of the Attitude 3 anthology or the early collections of Idiot Box? supplies dwindle, but the Bodaciously Valued Comic Pack in the store supplies you with 272 pages of comics! No bipedal mammal should be without it.