We’ve tried, but we just can’t take it anymore!

The senate voted 69-28 to approve a bill that will shield telecommunication companies from lawsuits due to government wiretapping.  The bill shields companies like AT&T and Verizon from the over 40 lawsuits.  The new surveillance bill also sets new rules for government eavesdropping. Some of them would tighten the reins on current government surveillance activities. It would require the government to get FISA court approval before it eavesdrops on an American overseas. Currently, the attorney general approves that electronic surveillance on his own. The bill also would allow the government to obtain broad, yearlong intercept orders from the FISA court that target foreign groups and people, raising the prospect that communications with innocent Americans would be swept in. The court would approve how the government chooses the targets and how the intercepted American communications would be protected.

So what does this mean for Americans?  For starters we can't hold the telecommunication industry or the government responsible for  illegal warrentlyess wiretapping.  Are our freedoms slowly being taken away from us without there being anything we can do about it?