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Just Say NO to Immunization for Telecomms!

Want to know what a difference three sentences can make? If the lame duck Congress slips three sentences of legislative language into a huge spending bill, a few major telecommunications companies would receive a "get out of jail free" card.

Urge your Senators and your Representative to Just Say NO to Immunization for Telecomms!

Call Senator Richard Durbin and Senator Barack Obama and your representative and tell them to JUST SAY NO! to a special deal for telecoms.

You can find the phone numbers for the Senators and your representative in the House by going to http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt.

Lobbyists for the telecommunications companies are working with friends on the Hill to add language to legislation that would immunize - i.e., forgive - those companies for cooperating with government agencies to violate the privacy of innocent Americans. The ACLU of Illinois filed a lawsuit against AT&T for revealing personal phone records to the government, a lawsuit brought on behalf of renowned journalist Studs Terkel, public health care advocate Dr. Quentin Young and others.

If the telecommunications companies can slip their three sentence "immunization" language into a bill in the middle of the night during this lame duck session, our lawsuit and other similar lawsuits would be dismissed before a court could review the legality of the telecoms activities.

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I wish the victims could be able to tell our policy makers,what we have had to live as our every word is being captured,I pray I get the chance to open up my horror story,and how I found the practice was happening,to our small family,A T T ,needs to explain,what went wrong here in Illinois.This is no safe gaurd,to make people safe its a way to find real money,so the government players can use, us, their pawns,In corruption,that I can show,Long before 7-11 the small local community terrorized our lives.and still can,I heard how the officer was going to cut out the truth and pick up on a family who, in only one myself,had the knowledge of being watched,elderly folks and children belived my facts were some illness.I must say I lost everything,except my dignity,now that the facts are slowly coming to light,I have lost my folks as they passed away,ATT we had that same number for 50 years,how can anyone reviewing the data,see humans being torn from our once wonderful existence, to the every day of being set up for a manufactured fall.Years of this.When the employees broke laws as circumstances happened why doesnt someone bring justice for what this wiretapping could prove,because, There is no oversight,and unless the few whom have knowledge that they are being watched,can open the door to true investigations,without deleated conversations and time being, changed on the capture,To show what damage was done, won`t be in some phoney manufactured rerun,but its a way to start.Give the victims a way to show what this system profoundly does.Keep this all hushed up so more trust funds get stolen by these government players,ATT you really got your company to be a part of this practice,to say that you were owed so much as how could one person call from 3 different countries at same time,how was it you can shut phone down saying a new address was why our phone wouldnt work,we hadnt moved but my dad and broker was using phone as his health was leaving.It was 3 days before you fixed it.I thought elderly and disabled honest citizens were protected from exploitation.Now I find no one can understand how the chain of events can happen when professionals all have a stake ,in their investments and stock options,even the community hospital who had a stake to place a phoney dr. visit with wording that wasnt the same as the real copy,but enough to probley get a warrant to live in our private home,electronicly,where is the facts without truth to show damages,The whisle blowers,are to be praised,


I think its terrible that anyone that participated in anything that violated innocent Americans' privacy should be let off of the hook! They, any everyone else involved should have to answer for spying on Americans and helping government agencies perpetrate something that should never happen in this country. The courts should be able to decide the legality of these actions and proceed in such manner they deem correct. No one should be let off of the hook!


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