Free Evenings and Weekends (The FISA Song)

Posted by ZP Heller, Brave New Films at 8:35 AM on July 11, 2008.

Max and the Marginalized song/video about warrantless wiretapping, telecom immunity, FISA, and all that fun stuff.

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Lyrics to the song after the flip.

Free Evenings and Weekends

Call me on the telephone, I've got time on my plan

I know that no one's listening, but I know that they can

A little bit of oversight for transparency's sake

It takes a special criminal

To break a law that there is no reason to break

Evenings and weekends are free

For them to listen in on you and me

And I can't possibly see

How you and I could ever be

If we go back in time

To when a telephone call it cost just a dime

And a crime was a crime

And we demanded a better excuse than "It's different this time."

Carry an agenda in on the backs of the dead

We tried to throw the book at them, they keep moving their heads

In spite of this duplicity I write them a check every month

And in light of their complicity

It's time that we charged them for once

Evenings and weekends are free

For them to listen in on you and me

And I can't possibly see

How you and I could ever be

If we go back in time

To when the opposition had something that looked like a spine

And a crime was a crime

And we demanded a better excuse than "It's different this time."

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