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benadamx discovered 5 weeks ago- "Yesterday, Bob Barr -- former GOP Congressman, ACLU privacy consultant, and current Libertarian Party presidential candidate -- endorsed the Accountability Now and Strange Bedfellows coalition. On his campaign website, this statement was issued: A lot of media attention has been focused on our privacy or, more appropriately, the invasion of our privacy by the government. The recent law that allows the government to intercept our phone calls and emails without any legitimate probable cause is the most glaring example. Ultimately we lose some freedom with virtually every new law or government regulation, but this particular law, FISA, is the granddaddy of all invasions of our privacy. For the last several years Bob Barr has been fighting the governmentâ€s intrusion into our privacy at every step. There have been other organizations standing shoulder to shoulder with Bob. But, the recent focus on the invasion of our privacy has motivated a whole new group of concerned activists to join together in an effort to stop the governmentâ€s encroachment into our lives. Some of the names of the organizers of this new group, AccountabilityNowPac, may be familiar to you. They come from a large variety of backgrounds and political beliefs joined in the common interest of protecting our privacy. If you get a chance please take a look at their web site to learn more about them. We welcome the leaders and supporters of Accontability Now Pac to the fight to protect our freedom and liberties. We hope and expect that this will be but the first of many prominent endorsements from both the left and civil-liberties-minded libertarian right of our campaign against the political establishment's assault on core Constitutional liberties, privacy rights and the rule of law. Just to get a sense for how like-minded Bob Barr and many progressives are with regard to these vital issues, here is a 45-minute Bloggingheads discussion between liberal blogger (and Strange Bedfellow member) Jane Hamsher and Rep. Barr that was a virtual festival of harmony (they discuss the FISA bill here, and they discuss the left-right civil liberties coalition in Britain here). "
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