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A surveillance program approved by President Bush to conduct eavesdropping without warrants has captured what are purely domestic communications in some cases, despite a requirement by the White House that one end of the intercepted conversations take place on foreign soil, officials say.
Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday cast the action as part of a broader effort to reassert powers of the presidency that he said had been dangerously eroded in the years after Vietnam and Watergate.
"I believe in a strong, robust executive authority, and I think that the world we live in demands it," said Cheney.
Cheney directly linked the effort to bolster the president's wartime authority to the nation's safety since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"You know," he said, "it's not an accident that we haven't been hit in four years."
Look, this is pure, unadulterated bullshit and a power grab by a cabal of pathological liars. Where is the evidence? I'm guessing its with the aluminum tubes and WMD. Maybe I should edit this statement - for the government could be monitoring this page. After all, it is now okay to spy on domestic dissenters.
On this page, I have never once argued for the impeachment of President George W. Bush. I believe that such actions help destabilize America and cause partisan bitterness.
However, if investigations show that this administration is guilty of flagrantly breaking the law, spying on Americans and eavesdropping, impeachment has to be a consideration.
Bush does not want to be president. He wants to be the czar with absolute power. However, he runs the United States, and if he doesn't like America and the freedom we offer, he should run for office in another country. They love him so much in Saudi Arabia that maybe he should move there and join the Saudi royal family.
Friends, it is time to wake up because this is no joking matter. We have a government that is arguing to alter the fundamental concept of freedom and liberty. This is how totalitarian regimes begin. They incrementally take over until they have absolute control. By the time this occurs, it is too late.
7 Comments:
bush and nixon were cut from the same paranoid, totalitarian cloth.
posted by Anonymous, at
12/21/2005 12:41 PM
Citizens who believe in blindly following what they are told (party lines, religious dogma, whatever) are a monumental part of the problem - that goes for reds and blues, people of all ideological stripes. We need our checks and balances. Right now, there is still way too much of the opinion that because W has declared war, all citizens are somehow obligated to support whatever he does. That is the kind of thinking that allowed the Nazi holocaust to happen in Germany a couple generations ago. We need every non-brainwashed thinker we can get, on all sides of the issues.
The fact is, Bush is a Nazi. He speaks of freedom but has no idea of what it is. He's a sick dude. Unfortunately, we reelected him, and have to suffer the consequences.
I'm afraid you liberals are so busy talking about rights, that you would put us at risk. Wake up! It is a post 9-11 world. Things have changed. Rights need to take a back seat to responsibilites of protecting our children from the bad guys.
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Silvan---WRONG!!!!!!!!! Those who trade liberty for security deserve neither (and will end up with neither) Ben Franklin
posted by Anonymous, at
12/21/2005 2:27 PM
Post 911 world or not, we cannot allow Bush or anyone else for that matter to wipe their ass on the Constitution and thumb their nose at the Bill of Rights.
