U.S. Senate to Vote on Net Surveillance

Soon, the senate(at the request of the Obama administration) will vote on whether the F.B.I., without the permission of a judge or meeting any requirement of reasonable suspicion, can force internet providers to provide a citizen's internet records including a list of everyone to whom he sent an e-mail, along with what time: for now, the content of the e-mail does not HAVE to be revealed, according to the law.

Here's a New York Times article on it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/opinion/30fri1.html?ref=opinion

I'm so disgusted I don't know what to say. People and politicians love to talk about democracy. Well, whatever they mean by "democracy" is not a free society... not if this bill passes. No way in heck. What this is is part of a much larger process by which authorities, whether you call them corporations or preachers or government, infringe on the rights of the independent citizen until such rights just don't exist. The government having an all-seeing eye in each of our computers is like the government being able to plant a micro-chip in our minds, inspecting our every thought and recording it in their files. The authorities don't need to inspect every article we read and every friend we converse with. Likewise, there shouldn't be a million laws regulating every aspect of our lives. But there is.

The day this evil law passes, and it's expected to pass with the hearty ayes of "progressives," 1984 will finally have arrived.