Most Republicans OK With Unauthorized Gov't Spying
Bush, for the 142,038,829,582,359,335th time, though he might cite 9/11 and terrorists in a speech to scare the shit out of Joe American enough to let his administration get away whatever."I think most Americans understand the need to find out what the enemy's thinking,” he said in order to justify illegally wiretapping American citizens.
Dark shadows. Enemies are everywhere. Lurking. Hating our freedom. WMD's are aimed at you. They’re watching you RIGHT NOW. Bush likes to convey this in every single speech to justify every single thing he does. It polls well.
Well George, 56% of us do want to know what they’re up to, it’s just that we’d like to legally find out. This means we can’t torture them, and this means we can’t just go around bugging everyone everywhere just because you feel like superseding the law that protects the very people you say you’re trying to protect.
According to a recent AP poll, most Americans – by a 56% to 42% margin – feel that the US Government shouldn’t hold the authority to wiretap it’s citizens without a warrant signed by a judge.
Recently, Right Wing outlet NewsMax published a piece that maintains the poll oversampled Democrats.
This actually made me feel better. Think about this. Democrats, by a margin of 3 to 1, are bothered when their civil liberties and Constitutional rights are violated, and don’t support the President’s ultimate authority over the law, or his ability to bypass the Justice system to eavesdrop on us.
Republicans, by a 2 to 1 margin are ok with this. This Republican came out on the side of the law.
Incidentally the poll finds that by the same Margin, most Republicans are lying when they say that want smaller government.
posted by Jeremy at 9:32 AM
3 Comments:
Hey, did you know that you and I are disrupters? We are disrupting the thought processes of millions of 'mercans who want to believe thar preznit.
Do you really think that President Bush wants to listen to one of YOUR conversations, or your neighbor's in the trailor next to you?? The only people being tapped are speaking with individuals outside of the USA, who are known to have ties to terrorist groups.
What are you afraid of, Jermy?
Anonymous – your comment is idiotic, and I’ll illustrate why in 5 points.
1). Bush doesn't listen to anyone's calls, the “eavesdropping team” at the National Security Agency does. They drag through literally millions of conversations and pick out key words or phrases, like, “Jack Abramoff.”
2). I speak to individuals outside of the USA as I have friends in Canada, and family who travels to Europe on business - you know, to help fund the trailers we live in. Us liberals tend to travel a bit.
3). If we're listening only to those who have ties to terrorist groups, why in fuck’s name would you not go to Congress, or the super-secret FISA court to get a warrant as prescribed by the law? Do you know that out of tens of thousands of requests, FISA has turned down less than five?
4). Does it bother you that your president has stated on two different occasions that a warrant is needed to listen to ANY of these calls, and was totally lying at the time because he made those statements after he started illegally wiretapping Americans? Or do you just shrug off the lies this administration tells on a daily basis because you're so desensitized?
5). You asked "what are you afraid of," in the last sentence where you spelled my name incorrectly, as if to say, “if you have nothing to hide, why worry?”
Well, how about I sent a few FBI agents into YOUR trailer at 4am to listen to some of the conversations you have with your wife – or 6 year old daughter, whatever your preference – maybe thumb through some of your receipts, go through your computer, and maybe have a look at your mail? Let me know when you’re ready, otherwise they might have to break in when you’re not home.
After all, what are you afraid of?
It will never cease to amaze me that those of you who hide behind the flag and want to slime anyone who has anything bad to say about America will allow those freedoms which make our country great get significantly eroded. Why is that?
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