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White House Wants Phone Records Without Oversight
An anonymous reader writes "The Obama administration's Justice Department has asserted that the FBI can obtain telephone records of international calls made from the US without any formal legal process or court oversight, according to a document obtained by McClatchy."
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion â" when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing â" when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors â" when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws donâ(TM)t protect you against them, but protect them against you â" when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice â" you may know that your society is doomed." -Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
Ayn Rand even in 1957 saw where the Progressive movement was steering the country. GWB, McCaine, and BHO are all Progressives. That's why BHO's policies aren't much different than GWB's.
The larger a government is, the more corruption there will be. You want a government that's truly of, by, and for the people?
Make it small and weak enough to fear the people.
"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." -Thomas Jefferson
A government large enough to give the people everything is also large enough to take everything away if the people displease it.
Every new government entitlement and social program is another chain the government uses to take away freedom. With every added program or entitlement there comes additional taxes, bureaucracy, laws, and regulations to strip away ever-more freedom and opportunity.
Every politician that pushes for some new entitlement is no better or different than the crack dealer standing on the corner offering some school kid a free rock.
People need to quit being so eager to suck on the government crack pipe. The Chinese are tired of financing our habit.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.