So you think the NSA Database issue is harmless if you are NOT a terrorist [View All]

LISTEN UP. This just happened minutes ago to my best friend.

I happened to be in her presence while she was trying to resolve an issue with AT&T about her inability to use her internet service to e-mail her grandchildren who live in NJ (she lives here in Maryland). She was complaining that her internet e-mail was unavailable for her to use. The first person she spoke with told her that she had exceeded her minute allocation. She has UNLIMITED service. The person told her that it must be because she had not paid her bill. They discovered that she had a zero balance on her account and that her bill had been paid well before the due date. She next learned from an AT&T superviosr that a BLOCK had been placed on her e-mail service. (This is a white, 50-something, grandmother, who works as a clerk and who has never left the borders of the USA). To make a long story short she discovered that because she had sent an e-mail to a friend who was vacationing in Holland and had received a response from that person that her e-mail account had been blocked. She was outraged and in tears. I suggested that she at least cancel her service with AT&T and that she write or phone her Senator and Representatives about the incident. The problems started immediately after she received an e-mail from her friend who is in Holland for a month's vacation (this friend is a Jewish woman who is 73 years old, an American citizen).

So you can't tell me that this data mining program is harmless and that they are not tapping in on ordinary citizens. I wonder how many other stories are out there that are similar? There should be a place for ordinary citizens to report this shit so that there is enough evidence against this Bush regime to prove that citizens' rights are being taken away and that our Constitution is being trampled. This shit is unbelievable! (I guess I will be blocked after this post.)

Anybody here have any experiences with this to share?