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Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Warrentless Wiretapping
LividBlivet writes, "The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that not only authorizes, but extends, US warrentless wiretapping. No accountability. No oversight. No definition of 'terrorist.' No record of who voted for what. Great way to devolve a democratic republic into a fascist theocracy. Me worried? Yea." Here is the text of SB2453, the National Security Surveillance Act (PDF). Confusingly, the committee also voted out two other bills, one of which "all but declares the warrantless wiretapping illegal," according to Wired.
[sarcasm] Oh no - the government can tap my phone conversations any time they want to now!!! Ack! Now they are gonna find out that: 1. I watch daytime TV and Springer is my favorite. 2. I can't stop calling Home Shopping Network and buying overpriced, useless, crap. 3. I like to have phone sex with girls from "Spank Me Harder, Mommy" sex line. 4. Nobody ever calls me because I am a 47 year old virgin, who smells like cabbage. (They will learn this because of my conversations with anyone who picks up the phone in sections 1-3 above.) Now is the time to ACT! Don't let your personal and private secrets get listened to and filed in the "Useless Loser" category of the government's database! Vote to impeach George Bush, and make all future president's wear French Maid outfits and say "Mother May I" before and after every public appearance. [\sarcasm] Really people - this has been going on for a very long time. It is becoming politicized simply because one party controls the media, and the other controls the government. When the same party controls both media and government, this type of thing was routinely swept under the rug. If you are REALLY concerned about YOUR privacy - there are plenty of websites that will tell you how to "live off the grid" and disappear. Yes - I am a veteran. I may disagree with what you have to say - but I HAVE served and I DO believe in your right to say it.
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"The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that not only authorizes, but extends, US warrentless wiretapping. No accountability. No oversight. No definition of 'terrorist.' No record of who voted for what. Great way to devolve a democratic republic into a fascist theocracy. Me worried? Yea."
Read the text of the bill linked above, not the Wired article for the full story.
Oh, and that "Me worried? Yea." part? You're overstating your importance...to...well, anyone.
Don't worry. If you really read what's going on with that bill, you'd know that 1) It's for people communicating the terrorists, 2) It's being overseen by a court, and 3) it's ALSO being overseen by Congress.
The sad fact is that despite this administration's incompetence on everything from Iraq to Katrina, it is still going to be a tight race.
Woah woah woah. Sure I'll let you blame Iraq on the Administration, but Katrina lies solely on the feet of Nagin, about the most worthless mayor that side of the mississippi.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
By the way, are you aware that the Korean "War," Vietnam "War," Gulf "War," and Gulf "War" II are all similarly fake? The last time the US was actually at war, FDR was President!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
By all means lets bring back the mindless liberals who incubated and nurtured Al Qaida. Death and carnage will be everywhere. But at least we'll be "free".
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Gee, yes because Sandy Berger is a good person to belive. Oh wait, he was the person convicted of stealing documents in his pants from the National Archives. Personally I have the same habit of stashing documents in my pants and socks while walking out of my local library.
When talking about the credibility of Madeline Albright, there is not enough space here to even begin to describe.