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US Policy Would Allow Government Access to Any Email
An anonymous reader writes "National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is currently helping to draft a new Cyber-Security Policy that could make the debate over warrantless wiretaps seem like a petty squabble. The new policy would allow the government to access to the content of any email, file transfer, or web search."
I'm still laughing at how the Bush administration is out smarting the democrats in Congress at every turn.
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How's that $9 trillion dollar national debt as we go into an undeclared recession working out for you?
Have you had enough yet, or should we point out that President Clinton will be using this to spy on your emails and taking away your guns?
(chirp chirp chirp)
Hmmm, awful quiet now
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That has to be the most ignorant comment I've ever seen posted in all my years. I would suggest you read 1984 by George Orwell for a depiction of where the present is headed. But with comments like that you must have a hard time reading anything. In the mean time your ignorance is helping to shift a once great democracy into the throws of what is known as a police state.
"The term police state is a term for a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the population, especially by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional republic. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive." -Wikipedia
Sound like any administration we know? Wait it gets better.
"Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers individual and social interests subordinate to the interests of the state or party. Fascists seek to forge a type of national unity, usually based on (but not limited to) ethnic, cultural, racial, religious attributes. The key attribute is intolerance of others: other religions, languages, political views, economic systems, cultural practices, etc." -Wikipedia
"supporters have included representatives of big business, farmers, landowners, disaffected World War I veterans, small business owners, nationalists, disillusioned former socialists, reactionaries and extreme conservatives. " Just before that quote happens to be a blurb about those in extreme poverty. -Wikipedia
Hmmm, that sounds just like the Republican Party's Neoconservative movement. I feel very sad for you that you would find the actions of this administration to be amusing. Your sense of patriotism is chilling.
This is why we need Ron Paul as president. He is for strictly limiting the government to only what the constitution says it can do. Nothing more, nothing less. We are losing our freedom and privacy everyday. I am convinced that Ron Paul will do what he says he will do, and start the revolution.