tfwright | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 21 2008 | politics, bullshitHere comes some of the crap from Obama that's only going to get worse as McCain keeps plying the only leverage he has...
The stupid thing about this is that if you're going going vote for this bill, the retroactive immunity SHOULD be included, because you are effectively, no, DIRECTLY asserting the previous limits were improper and needed fixing, and thus the Telecoms acted rightly. This is the same principle according to which prison terms have recently been retroactively reduced when the racist guidelines that put crack offenders away for up to 15 times longer than cocaine were fixed.
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