For weeks, the House has been deliberating on its response to the Senate’s FISA Amendments Act, which aims to grant retroactive immunity for telecoms involved in warrantless wiretapping. While it’s seemed like a possibility that the House was going to cave and agree to grant immunity, the tides have shifted in a big way in the last few days.

Yesterday, House leaders announced a bill that would not grant telecom immunity, and today, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and 19 Members of the House Judiciary Committee issued a strong statement dismantling flawed pro-immunity arguments and delivering concrete findings and recommendations on dealing with the secretive terrorist surveillance program and telecom immunity.

Phone or email your Representative today — urge them to maintain opposition to retroactive immunity.

That article (take here from the EFF) pretty much made my day. I feel that if the telecom industry is given immunity in this matter than our right to privacy has basically been taken away from us in favor of “national security”. Pardon me, but piss off. This is ridiculous; if anyone thinks that this is in any what way right or constitutional please tell me, because I have no clue how this happened. Immunity in this case equals the nation giving the go ahead to the government to warrentlessy peruse our data files searching for anything that has to do with “national security”. So you may say “well if you don’t think they should do that than what are you hiding?” NOTHING! I’m hiding nothing. The principle of the matter is that I don’t like anybody who shouldn’t have access to my personal information having unrestricted, untraceable access to it. Plain and simple. I think this is a big step in rectifying Bush’s mistakes in the white house. The Patriot Act is unconstitutional, do some research, it’s not hard to figure that out with a little common sense…although common sense is a common threat these days. I think Bush read a little to deeply into the whole Well’s Big Brother thing…