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Get FISA Right started out as a movement on the Obama campaign's website that objected to the candidate's position on FISA. Now its ads take aim at McCain and the GOP.
Get FISA Right has already offered one ad featuring a gravestone for the Constitution. The new ad, panning over parchment, takes on the Republican Senators who voted unanimously to allow the government to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant. Another ad - same visuals, different voiceover - takes on John McCain for his support of illegal government surveillance of US citizens. The ads will allow Get FISA Right to run ads across the political spectrum; the first ad can be used during the Democratic convention in Denver to raise awareness about civil liberties issues.
While the ACLU's lawsuit makes its way through the courts,the FISA Amendments Act of July 2008 is still the law of the land. It allows the government to wiretap Americans and read their emails without a warrant, and grants immunity to the telecommunications companies who broke the law by spying on Americans. Sen. Obama has promised a review of all government surveillance programs once he's elected, but repealing FISA will take a lot of hard work.
Get FISA Right is running ads during the Republican National Convention because all Republican senators voted in favor of FISA. (The exception was John McCain, who was busy campaigning but who has consistently supported government violations of civil liberties in the name of national security.) Get FISA Right won't be the first to break the long standing etiquette of not running ads during the opponents' convention -- that distinction belongs to the GOP, who will be running ads against Obama in Denver.
In addition to sending out a pro-civil liberties message aimed at the GOP, Get FISA Right isalso hoping their pro-civil liberties message will be seen by the libertarians attending the Ron Paul Convention for the Republic, also in Minneapolis St. Paul, ending just as the Republican convention gets under way.
The way the ads are being put on the air is part of Get FISA Right's people powered approach. They're being aired via saysmetv, which allows individuals to get whatever messages they want on the air for as little as $6. This bottoms up approach to politics allows everyone, Republican, Democrat and Independent, to take a stand in favor of the Constitution.
Get FISA Right has already offered one ad featuring a gravestone for the Constitution. The new ad, panning over parchment, takes on the Republican Senators who voted unanimously to allow the government to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant. Another ad - same visuals, different voiceover - takes on John McCain for his support of illegal government surveillance of US citizens. The ads will allow Get FISA Right to run ads across the political spectrum; the first ad can be used during the Democratic convention in Denver to raise awareness about civil liberties issues.
While the ACLU's lawsuit makes its way through the courts,the FISA Amendments Act of July 2008 is still the law of the land. It allows the government to wiretap Americans and read their emails without a warrant, and grants immunity to the telecommunications companies who broke the law by spying on Americans. Sen. Obama has promised a review of all government surveillance programs once he's elected, but repealing FISA will take a lot of hard work.
Get FISA Right is running ads during the Republican National Convention because all Republican senators voted in favor of FISA. (The exception was John McCain, who was busy campaigning but who has consistently supported government violations of civil liberties in the name of national security.) Get FISA Right won't be the first to break the long standing etiquette of not running ads during the opponents' convention -- that distinction belongs to the GOP, who will be running ads against Obama in Denver.
In addition to sending out a pro-civil liberties message aimed at the GOP, Get FISA Right isalso hoping their pro-civil liberties message will be seen by the libertarians attending the Ron Paul Convention for the Republic, also in Minneapolis St. Paul, ending just as the Republican convention gets under way.
The way the ads are being put on the air is part of Get FISA Right's people powered approach. They're being aired via saysmetv, which allows individuals to get whatever messages they want on the air for as little as $6. This bottoms up approach to politics allows everyone, Republican, Democrat and Independent, to take a stand in favor of the Constitution.
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