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These days I have heard a lot of decent concerned people called traitors simply for thinking about what is right and just in a time of fear-mongering and propagandized news.

It is a serious word, with a meaning that people too clearly forget.

AT&T joined with our government to illegally spy on us all.  I will not bore you by reminding us all what it means when the state and corporations unite against the public.  Suffice it to say that those senators that voted to immunize AT&T from prosecution are traitors to the founding principles of the United States.  Of course they would not have to make a vote on such a simple issue of principle were it not for George W. Bush leading us down a road to illegal spying, but that is the least of his crimes, and to talk it up belittles his far greater crimes against humanity.