Bu-buh-buh-but, I thought we could trust the government! Seriously tho, this goes way beyond The President. This crap has been going on legally or illegally, for decades (if not longer).
What's especially lame, is the folks who just recently defended this crap, saying "the government needs the power to make us safe". Nothing, read my lips, *nothing*, is going to change this but public outcry. Least we know we can count on the Obama "dislikers" / "hope-his-policies-failers" to fight the good fight (for this fight, and it won't be based on principals, tho I wish it were (and maybe it is, for one or two (one can hope, at least))). If only more people really believed in the core stuff, and didn't only pay attention when the "other guy" does it, or whatever. Yes, I agree, this is Obama's Administration sucking nuts. But even so, it *still* doesn't suck as much nuts as Bush(43)'s =]. -- As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe. H. P. Blavatsky On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > My biggest knock against Obama during the campaign was his odious > support of the bill to retroactively authorize warrantless > wiretapping. Secret, unchecked, warrantless spying on Americans is > just not ok. Period. It reeks of the worst abuses of power in the cold > quiet places totally hidden from public scrutiny. > > And now it seems my worst fears about the Obama DOJ are coming true. > Give someone power and they will not easily give it up. The EFF and > ACLU sued the federal government over the warrantless wiretapping in > October and agreed to wait on the case until the new admin got in > place and could respond to the allegations and provide their own > briefs. And it looks like the Obama DOJ is not only backing the Bush > DOJ arguments on States Secrets but is also putting forth a new > Sovereign Immunity argument that says the Patriot Act bars any kind of > law suits about any illegal government surveillance for any reason > unless there is "willful disclosure" of the illegally intercepted > communications by the government. I.E., they decide to tell everyone > on their own terms. Fucking brilliant. > > http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/06/obama/index.html > > And this, my friends, is why we should have never passed the Patriot > Act in the first place. > > Judah > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:294323 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
