FISA, in application, is a law that allows the government to essentially snoop on its citizens with blanket impunity. FISA is not a new act. It was first passed in 1978 during the ?Cold War? and proscribed procedures under which physical and electronic surveillance and collection of foreign intelligence information between foreign powers and agents of foreign powers (which may include American citizens and permanent residents) who are suspected of engaging in espionage and violating U.S.



The Reformed Among the recent so called FISA reforms is immunization for giant telecom corporations from prosecution for criminal behavior for unlawfully spying on Americans? even before 9/11. This immunity will have a chilling effect in two ways:

FISA's Chilling Effect On Civil RIghts:

First it will construct a wall which will prevent Americans from ever finding out, as one writer has said, "who did what for whom, what were the enticements, who was the kingpin in all this lawbreaking" Secondly ,and perhaps even more troubling, is that it will create an atmosphere where other huge corporations, or even those not so huge, will be willing to violate the civil rights of Americans with impunity as long as they are deemed to be cooperating with the Government.

Of the many requests for wiretaps that the clandestine FISA court has viewed over the last thirty years, it has declined only a very small handful - some theorize as few as five. In an emergency, FISA permits the authorities to begin the surveillance prior to requesting court permission. It is, without a doubt, designated to be one of the major tools for conducting domestic national security surveillance. Otherwise, it is altogether meaningless.

FISA And The Revelation:

FISA is almost four decades old and until recently many people had not the faintest idea that such a secret system even existed. How could this be in the U.S.?

The prophet ,John, in the Apocalypse foresaw such a scenario as we are beginning to discern as a terrible reality. He warned in strikingly exact prophetic language of a time that even America, the recognized nation of freedom, would "speak" with a a different voice, a voice unknown to the principles spelled out in its Constuitution and Bill of Rights. How few Americans would have supposed that in America there would be a covert courteven prior to Sept. 11? Furthermore, who believes that the prophecies of Revelation will be completed and that oin this process literally every principle of the United States Constitution will have to be abdicated...appears amazing?Stick around!