"Can you hear me now? Good (NOT)!"
Times of London reports on the latest illegal snooping by King George and his lackeys:
The programme is significantly different from — and potentially far more damaging politically than the secret, warrantless wiretapping programme revealed in December. That involved monitoring calls and e-mails in which one party was abroad. Polls consistently showed that a significant majority of Americans backed Mr Bush on that because they believed it specifically targeted terror suspects. (Actually, that is NOT what the polls say.)
Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster, told The Times: “There is a very fine line between national security and personal oppression. The public is prepared to accept a degree of intelligence intervention but this may have crossed the line. I think a majority of Americans will be opposed to this.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2176605,00.html
Okay, friends, let's review:
The president assures us no one is listening in on all our phone calls. They're only monitoring who we call, who calls us and how long we talk to each other -- without any of that messy court paperwork the law requires. They want to know who's talking to whom and for how long because that information can reveal patterns that lead them to (what else?) terrorists. Once they spot such a pattern, the NSA can immediately start monitoring the calls themselves -- again, without any court order -- in an effort to find an "evildoer" on one end of the call, or the other. Said evildoer can then be abducted from his/her home, a public street, an airport or anywhere, frankly, and whisked off to a U.S. military base, to be held without charge and without legal counsel. Or, perhaps, said evildoer will be whisked off to a secret prison operated by the CIA in eastern Europe. Or simply transferred to the custody of a friendly country (Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, the list goes on) with a less than firm grasp on the concept of "human rights". There the evildoer will remain until either 1) interrogators using creative tactics extract important information about terrorism, 2) interrogators using creative tactics extract a confession about terrorism, or 3) said evildoer dies. All without any of that messy court paperwork that so bogs down the crusaders for freedom in the United States government.
Even though federal law prohibits the government from finding out who you call, who calls you and how long you talk without a court order; from monitoring your phone calls without a court order; from abducting you; from incarcerating you without charge or legal counsel; from sending you abroad to face torture, King George has ordered all of those acts (and more) carried out in his name -- and yours. Why?
The programme is significantly different from — and potentially far more damaging politically than the secret, warrantless wiretapping programme revealed in December. That involved monitoring calls and e-mails in which one party was abroad. Polls consistently showed that a significant majority of Americans backed Mr Bush on that because they believed it specifically targeted terror suspects. (Actually, that is NOT what the polls say.)
Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster, told The Times: “There is a very fine line between national security and personal oppression. The public is prepared to accept a degree of intelligence intervention but this may have crossed the line. I think a majority of Americans will be opposed to this.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2176605,00.html
Okay, friends, let's review:
The president assures us no one is listening in on all our phone calls. They're only monitoring who we call, who calls us and how long we talk to each other -- without any of that messy court paperwork the law requires. They want to know who's talking to whom and for how long because that information can reveal patterns that lead them to (what else?) terrorists. Once they spot such a pattern, the NSA can immediately start monitoring the calls themselves -- again, without any court order -- in an effort to find an "evildoer" on one end of the call, or the other. Said evildoer can then be abducted from his/her home, a public street, an airport or anywhere, frankly, and whisked off to a U.S. military base, to be held without charge and without legal counsel. Or, perhaps, said evildoer will be whisked off to a secret prison operated by the CIA in eastern Europe. Or simply transferred to the custody of a friendly country (Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, the list goes on) with a less than firm grasp on the concept of "human rights". There the evildoer will remain until either 1) interrogators using creative tactics extract important information about terrorism, 2) interrogators using creative tactics extract a confession about terrorism, or 3) said evildoer dies. All without any of that messy court paperwork that so bogs down the crusaders for freedom in the United States government.
Even though federal law prohibits the government from finding out who you call, who calls you and how long you talk without a court order; from monitoring your phone calls without a court order; from abducting you; from incarcerating you without charge or legal counsel; from sending you abroad to face torture, King George has ordered all of those acts (and more) carried out in his name -- and yours. Why?
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