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House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping Extension
An anonymous reader writes "The House of Representatives voted 227-183 to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to allow warrantless wiretapping of telephone and electronic communications. The vote extends the FISA amendment for six months. 'The administration said the measure is needed to speed the National Security Agency's ability to intercept phone calls, e-mails and other communications involving foreign nationals "reasonably believed to be outside the United States." Civil liberties groups and many Democrats said it goes too far, possibly enabling the government to wiretap U.S. residents communicating with overseas parties without adequate oversight from courts or Congres.'"
Oh well, you better stop telling your overseas friends about your illegal activities then, right?
It's lovely to see all the posts about how our rights are getting shit on, when what? 52% of you americans voted this baboon into office again. Simply put, if you didn't want to eat turds for dinner, you shouldn't have ordered the flaming poo poo platter.
Let this be a long-lasting lesson about those patriotic feelings and letting fear fuel voting habits.
Sadly, its most certainly a nearly impossible task to kill our traitorous president. The main problem is you have to know when and where he will be. Odds are, you will never get close enough, so a sniper shot is the best approach. If you can get close enough, killing anyone is easy, even with your bare hands. Done right, you can snap his neck before the SS can shoot you, but most certainly just barely, meaning you will be shot on the spot, and killed.
Perhaps the most favorable approach would be to use poison, a poison tipped dart is undetectable by metal detectors (assuming its a wooden or bone dart, not a metal one), a firing device dosent need to be that big, it could easily fit in your mouth, unseen until its to late. This would still require you to get within about 10 feet of the president, and have very good aim (the neck is the best location to place a dart, its usually the most exposed area of the body).
For food poison, if you can sneak into the kitchen of where he eats, poisoning shouldent be to hard, perhaps using saminella (err, how is that spelled?) or other raw-food based nasties, they are easy to obtain, and can be blamed upon bad food preparation, tho, they are not nearly as deadly as a toxin.
Yeah, thanks Democrats. Bush threatens to take away your summer vacation and you just completely cave. I'm so glad you were elected.
gone RomHeo and bloodfarts. FreeBSD
I'm not ignoring anything.
The 72 hours later bit for FISA is irrelevant.
This unnecessarily saddles foreign intelligence gathering, which has never required a warrant for good reason, with warrant requirements.
Again, see this article for a brief overview of the issues.
Monitoring this kind of traffic should not require a warrant process of any kind, period. It flies in the face of the method and purpose of foreign signals intelligence. It's that simple. You can refuse to understand that if you wish.