Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Telecom Immunity vs. Bloggers et. al.

I hate to keep putting up brief posts that basically do nothing but point to Glenn Greenwald's blog, but: 1) I'm not in a position to put up longer posts, and 2) Glenn Greenwald is saying a lot of good things. For example, here he is on the lesson to be learned from yesterday's derailing in the Senate of the telecom immunity/FISA bill:

The most important lesson to learn here is that it is always possible for citizens to influence and disrupt even the most fortified Beltway establishment schemes. When that fails to happen, it's never because it can't be done, because it's impossible, because the deck is too stacked against it, etc. Rather, when there is failure in this regard, it's because the right strategy wasn't discovered, or because not enough pressure was generated, or because there were insufficient tools of persuasion deployed.

Read the whole post here.

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