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Bush Defends Spying on Americans 2 Years, 8 Months ago Karma: 0  
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I am really disgusted at the cavalier attitude Bush takes when he speaks about his rights as granted by the Constitution. He is not upholding the Constitution or protecting the American people. They have caught zero terrorists since 9/11 and it's time he stop hiding behind the invoked fear of terrorists and 9/11. This is America and we are guaranteed a right to privacy as citizens, and I am tired of the attitude that they deserve carte blanche to check into our library records, emails, phone communications, credit card spending, and all the other sneak and peak targets.
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In total agreement here. My civil liberties feel threatened by Bush and his people. I still can't figure out how that man got elected. That's why my bumper sticker says:

Don't blame me. I voted against Bush--TWICE.
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I totally agree. Bill Clinton had an affair, So What!! Clinton may have done Hilary wrong, but we didn't have to worry about all this threat levels and sending innocent men away from home to fight a stupid war. I know this may be a sensitive subject to many who support the war and have family members fighting, but this is my own humble opinion. If I had a son old enough to fight, he will NOT be going by any means necessary because I say so. Bring back Bill Clinton! I know he can't serve any more terms. I'm just so glad this will be Bush's last term and he has no sons to take his place. Why don't he send his daughters over there instead of getting drunk? I guess they are too precious to him...well news flash, many other parents feel the same way. Let the people who want to go go, not the ones who are trying to go to college, almost finished with college, have families, etc.

As MoonChild said, we have our right or we are SUPPOSED to have our right to privacy we also have freedom. I guess its freedom only comes at the convenience to them. Freedom also should include the right to refuse going to war.

I think it is so stupid to spy on people. Whats really the point: to spy on suspected terrorists or just any American citizen? I would probaly be arrested, surely questioned if I even walked up and down the street of the White House for exercise, let alone spy. Come on, its like me calling your doctor requesting your lab results and you don't even know me.

Hurricane Katrina victims! Oh goodness, I won't even start on how pissed off I am about that. I'd need a whole thread. Okay, enough of me venting. You can clearly tell I'm pissed because this is my by far my longest post. Maybe I should start my own blog!?! Like I said, not to stomp on any Bush or War supporters toes, but this is my honest opinion.
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You know, one thing I wish they would stop doing is still using the scare tactics that they have since we were told that a nuclear weapon could be implemented in 45 mins!...(Thank You DICK Cheney)..
The fact is that the 9-11 commission has publicly stated now that EVEN SINCE they're first investigation, this administration has done NOTHING substancial to make anything any "safer"....NOTHING.....(The holes in that bucket are huge!)
The continual lying and corruption that is running rampant in that place is astronomical....
I am appalled by this group of criminals, and to think they ran they're campaign of values(?) and morals (?) and implied that if I voted a certain way I was immoral and valueless..(that really pisses me off)...and if I use my voice to oppose anything of this adm..I am labeledanti american...they are ruthles..I have a son in the army...He has spent a year in Iraq and has the possibility of going again...so dont tell me about my rights to speak about my opinion of the war...I have just as much right as any...if not more!....Peace
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In a recent speech our beloved Pres. Bush all but accused critics of his extralegal warrentless wiretaps of giving aid and comfort to Al Queda!...."It is a shameful act, for someone to disclose this very important program in time of war.The fact that were discussing this program is helping the enemy..(OMG, did he actually say that?)...If thats so, than the ranks of the treasonous now include leaders of the Presidents own party...Sen. Lindsay Graham said "Even in time of war, you have to follow the process"..(we all know how important following the "process" is dont we? )...Arlen Specter said the presidents domestic spying is "inexcusable...clearly and categarically wrong" and plans hearings...Domestic warrentless surveillance shocks the political system...The same arguments cited by Bush--inherent presidential power and national security-- sustained the wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr, also unleashed illegal CIA domestic spying and generated FBI files on thousands of American dissidents...In 1974, the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon included abuse of presidential power based on warrentless wiretaps and illegal surveillance...A few months after that, presidential aides named Cheney and Rumsfeld worked dilligently to secure President Fords veto of the Freedom of Information Act, in an unsuccessful attempt to turn back post-Watergate restrictions on homegrown spying and govt. secrecy...But most of all it needs to be said that no constitutional clause gives the president "because I said so " authority.A belligerent president vowed that warrentless domestic spying will continue, whatever the letter of the Foreign Intelligence Survellience Act or the Bill of Rights!...Busg also not so subtly threw down the gauntlet to Congress by saying "An open debate about law would say to the enemy here's what we're going to do"...Isnt open debate the very essence of democracy?...without it, there is little to prevent a slide into authoritarianism..(The ACLU has FBI documents that indicate the bureau has expanded the definition of "domestic terrorism" to include citizens engaged in nonviolent protest and civil disobedience.)...Congress has a solemn obligation to carry out a full investigation into these grave breaches of our constitutional liberties....Isnt that what my son is supposidly fighting for?...or is it something else this week?
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A long time ago, Ben Franklin said that folk who would sacrifice a little liberity for a little security deserve neither liberity or security.

I stand with Ben--and like him--I AM a patriot. I love my country and want my country back.

We remain the "home of the brave" thanks to the brave men and women in our armed forces, however, the Bush Administration continues to threaten that we are the "land of the free".
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