Friend of mine's take on the FISA bill

Franklin's BOSTON GAZETTE AND ALMANAC, 2007 -
Bush Signs Law to Widen Legal Reach for Wiretapping
By JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 — King's Viceroy Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation that broadly expanded His Majesty's Loyal Government’s authority to eavesdrop on the intervillage horse-courier and H-mail messages of Colonists without writs.

Even Royalist lackeys and others familiar with the details of the law said that its impact went far beyond the small fixes that Royalist administration officials had said were needed to gather information about French and Indian foreign terrorists. They said seemingly subtle changes in legislative language would sharply alter the legal limits on the King's ability to monitor the dozens of parchments and documents going in and out of the Colonies.

They also said that the new law for the first time provided a legal framework for much of the surveillance without writs that was being conducted in secret by the King's Security Agency and outside the Colonial Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1775 law that is supposed to regulate the way the government can read the private papers and seize the personal effects of American Colonists.

“This more or less legalizes the K.S.A. program,” said Kate Martin, director of the Center for Colonial Security Studies in Philadelphia, who has studied the new legislation.
Previously, the government obtained writs....
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My legal analysis: From now on, anyone riding a fast stallion near Boston at night near the Old North Church has to stop on demand and show all papers he is carrying to any Redcoat or other undefined "representative of King George." (They already have a spyglass man covering the belfry.) "King's Writ and King's Privilege" and "No Founding Fathers With Guts Around Anymore", and "Why do you ask, Rebel?" are the reasons given when suspicious non-Tory riders are stopped, gaoled and beaten.

...is gathering.

And by the time the people on the SS Red, White and Blue wake-the-hell-up---it will be too late.

For now, the oblivion and denial party continues on the promenade deck.