The Left Anchor

Bit lost underground. Clear future, not so much digging soil, rebuild bones. No one in those graves. They are after all the souls fly free. No beat in the gutters. It never has been, but there are indelible memory and immortal memory. What there will be no memory of those who fought and died for justice and freedom?
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The New York Times has a story today about Bush’s “robust” language concerning FISA. The Senate, of course, has already passed a bill that includes the controversial telecom amnesty provision, but the House is thus far holding strong against it. The president warns that it’s “dangerous, just dangerous” to continue to drag out this debate. Of course, considering the telecom amnesty provision is the only real point of contention, and Bush’s own statements that he will veto any bill that comes to his desk without it, he is either lying about the danger, or is more concerned with protecting telecoms than with protecting American citizens personal liberties. Of course, in this administration, there is no law except the law of Bush. If the telecoms were asked to do something illegal by the government, then they were obligated to do so:
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Ezra’s got a new article up over at The American Prospect which tackles the reasons the current health insurance system fails us, and his view of the basic structure of the system that would be necessary to provide us all with decent health insurance. He sums the latter up in five points:
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“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”
— Eric Schmidt, CEO Google

I found this quote today while researching for this post. I wanted something that summed up just what it was about the internet that was so valuable; what it was that was so unique and irreplaceable that we must use every resource at our disposal to protect and foster it’s continued growth.
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