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Originally Posted by evollove
What course of action? What can I do? Or do I have to depend on the kindness of strangers who went to law school?
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Ah, that's cute. But, please, don't assume you're as helpless as all that. One can start by supporting a presidential candidate that promises to end the Homeland Security monitoring. And, in the case your candidate does get elected, you better be one of the people demanding updates on the progress of them fulfilling their promise.
Right now, I can only see how the homeland security monitoring is only being addressed as an incidental issue with most of the soundbytes being about the Iraq war in general. So far, to my knowledge, Kucinich and Edwards both voted against the Patriot Act and have made statements that they will end the practice, and Obama and Biden have now come to their side after both initially supporting and voting FOR the practice. On the Republican side, Texas (keep in mind, he's a tad racist) Rep. Ron Paul is the sole proponent of ending monitoring.
To get an overview of all the candidate's positions
http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm
& on Homeland Security
http://www.ontheissues.org/Homeland_....htm#Headlines