Free Evenings and Weekends (The FISA Song)

By ZP Heller, Brave New Films
Posted on July 11, 2008, Printed on November 30, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://bravenewfilms.org/91194/

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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