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posted by
BC-A
on March 1, 2008 at 6:09 PM
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Although I do agree that there are far more important issues to
hold Congressional hearings on than steroid-using self-adulators, I beleive that the terrorist bill of which you speak is the continuation of the NSA surveillance bill, which has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. I've seen the commercials and it's just a scare tactic and a way to get everybody pissed at the Democrats. The terrorists either will or will not be surveilled. We're not going to catch them all. But I also don't want my government infringing upon my rights as a free citizen (although they do more times than I'll ever be able to count). Legalize this surveillance and you allow them to do whatever the hell they want. Most of the time they do anyway, but until its passed into law, it's illegal for them to do so.
Look at it this way. Up until 9/11, the FBI and the CIA, the NSA and all those other security organizations did a helluva job protecting the mainland from terrorists. They missed a couple: the earlier trade center bombing, a nutcase here and there shooting at people at Langley, some planes hijacked. So what's different after 9/11? Not much, except that we now have a government that believes they have the right to do whatever the hell they want to promote their agenda. It's not about terrorists. It's about economics and power. It's about centralizing that power. And it's about keeping it centralized.
Baseball steroids and Britney are distractions. Fear is leverage. Electronic surveillance without a warrant is illegal. I've got a better way to protect the U.S. from terrorists: better security at our ports and borders and getting the hell out of Iraq...
posted by
saul_relative
on March 1, 2008 at 3:37 PM
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I think there are more important issues as well. sam
posted by
sam444
on March 1, 2008 at 11:59 AM
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