Originally Posted by Duff Man
I have held strong opinions against GWB reauthorizing the Patriot Act and the vote along party lines making permanent the government's unprecedented powers to investigate suspected terrorists. Allowing the white house to go above the law and spy on US citizens is unlawful, immoral, and grounds for impeachment. Why? Why shouldn't we allow out going calls to Al Queda to be over looked? Because the Bush administration isn't just spying on calls that are going outside of the US. It's because it breaks our Bill of Rights. It takes away our freedom of speach...
I have been following Amy Goodman and "Democracy Now" for quite some time. She is a reputable and well respected journalist. In her latest installment, she interviews a victim of Bush's illegal acts of spying on america. This woman simply wrote a letter and published it. She had FBI storm in on her, her computor was confisgated, and all of her private files were examined and copied. She had her rights stripped of her and her personal files examined and filed. This is the first person that has come forward to announce this illegal act. You can only imagine all of the others that could have had this happen to them and fear coming forward to tell about it. The link is here, and you can also listen to the interview. Even in the interview she was timid and scared. You can simply hear it in her voice:
http://www.democracynow.org/article....6/03/02/148237
This "reauthorizing hte Patriot Act" is just another step forward to the fascist acts of the white house.
Like I've said before, fascism has many faces...right now, it's the Bush administration.
DVPGSR has already seen this and I welcome his opinion - you can copy paste as did I...But be weary of what the current agenda's interest's are....are they really a cause to fight terrorists acts? Or are they really an attemtp to fight speacial interest attacks?
My response from the other forum...
I have held strong opinions against GWB reauthorizing the Patriot Act and the vote along party lines making permanent the government's unprecedented powers to investigate suspected terrorists.
Party lines? I was unaware there were 89 Republicans in the Senate...
By a March 2 vote of 89–10, the U.S. Senate approved reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act (H.R. 3199) that would make permanent 14 of 16 expiring provisions and extend two others—including Section 215, which facilitates FBI access to business and library records—through 2009.
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Allowing the white house to go above the law and spy on US citizens is unlawful, immoral, and grounds for impeachment.
I agree...too bad this is not happening. Spying on Al Qaeda is a legal activity and if a person from outside the US calls a person inside the US that does not necessarily have to be a citizen our government should know about it.
As for Democracy Now that is as looney-left wing and partisan as they come. But as for the VA nurse she was investigated for sedition because as I quote from the link you posted...
She urged readers to, "act forcefully to remove a government administration playing games of smoke and mirrors and vicious deceit."
And for those too lazy to go to dictionary.com to look up sedition here is the definition for you.
1. Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state.
2. Insurrection; rebellion.
Urging readers to act forcefully to remove the government sounds a lot like language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state. It appears pretty clear that the government (most likely the FBI) was simply doing their job.
And this is not an illegal act of domestic spying as you claim...
She is a reputable and well respected journalist. In her latest installment, she interviews a victim of Bush's illegal acts of spying on america. This woman simply wrote a letter and published it. She had FBI storm in on her, her computor was confisgated, and all of her private files were examined and copied.
She wrote a letter to a local public newspaper that got published. There was no spying done, she aired her opinions and views in plain public view. If you are suggesting that government officials cannot even read the newspaper now you are more looney than I thought.
Finally you are dead wrong...
She had her rights stripped of her
Just as I do not have the right to yell "fire" in a crowded movie theater when there is no fire she cannot express her views calling for the forcefull overthrow of government. There are limits to free speach...this is one of them.