Bush the Yuppie Bastard and the Anit-Warrant
Okay, I have 15 minutes to type this damn thing... otherwise I think Dusty will remove my head with a pic-axe for not doing what I promised.
So, let me get this straight. I will lay it down simple easy to follow steps.
A cop wants to bust a "bad guy".... cop needs a warrant... cop attains warrant via a judge... cop goes and searches "bad guys" house etc.
This is what having constitutional rights does. It allows people continue to have a right to privacy, but if needed through the proper channels we can search those properties.
Now, again in simple to follow steps.
Bush wants to bust terrorists... Bush bypasses warrant.... Bush eavesdrops on calls that may/may not have a damn thing to do with terrorists... Bush has caught no one.
Did I get that right? So, if you are President of the United States you have the ability now to use and abuse the constitution (that you are suppose to uphold) at will. Great. What is next Bush gets to eliminate the Supreme Court Justices so that he can sentence criminals how he sees fit?
Yeah, I understand why we should get rid of assholes trying to eliminate our country and the people in it. But do we need to allow assholes inside the country to eliminate the constitution that is the foundation of our entire country?
Do we cut our nose to spite our faces.
My opinion... NO!
Please... Give me yours.
posted by FantasticAlice @ 3:12 PM
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uh.....no.
Of course now we are on their list and they could say that we used the Internet for organized subversive operations and if we request any money, the feds will have the right to seize our property under RICCO statues. Unless you happen to live in an area that some hot shot developer wants - then the cronies at City Hall will use Emminent Domain to get you kicked off of it, but they'll give you market value. Unless you happen to rent, Then you just get to move.
Everybody sing =
"This land is your land..."
Bush has a set of secret judges(the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court) that will give him ANY eavesdropping warrant he wants. Thats a fact jack. He refused to use that bunch of judges and tried to say Congress gave him the power to eavesdrop, Congress told him he was full of shit. If we DO NOT agree with our elected leaders, WE have the RIGHT to disagree, to dissent. We can stand on a street corner every day with a sign telling them what assholes they are, we can type it on a blog every day if we want. We can even scream it from our rooftops if we want to. They can not stop us from dissenting..for disagreeing with their policies. It is one of the basis for our constitution..its one of the reasons they came over from England, to be able to disagree without worrying that they would be be-headed.
Bush said the Constitution is just a piece of paper. He said it very recently. He lied about the WMD's and uranium being moved into Iraq.
Organized dissent is not subversive, nor illegal. You can do anything this side of planning to blowup Washington DC or assassinate an elected official..once you cross that line...then your breaking the law. We have the right to peaceful protest. J.Edgar Hoover wiretapped hundreds of individuals who did nothing more than disagree with the government and organize groups with a common goal..laws were created to stop that kind of behavior.An amended 1947 law requires President Bush to keep all members of the House and Senate intelligence committees "fully and currently informed" of such intelligence activities as the domestic surveillance effort. A memo from national security specialist Alfred Cumming is the second report this month from CRS(congressional research service) to question the legality of aspects of Bush's domestic spying program. A Jan. 6 report concluded that the administration's justifications for the program conflicted with current law.
The ACLU, Greenpeace and other groups filed on Tuesday a lawsuit to stop the domestic spying by the NSA. They assert that Bush exceeded his authority and violated Fourth Amendment guarantees in authorizing the NSA surveillance.
Bush has violated the 4th amendment but to him its just a piece of paper. How can one trust a President that has no respect for that "Piece of Paper"? The NSA(National Security Agency) was originally barred from domestic surveillance without court supervision to avoid just this sort of abuse.
2 words: Patriot Act. That one stomped all over constitutional rights...
"He who gives up a little of his freedom for a little security is neither free or secure," Edmund Burke, British member of the the house of commons (1785-ish)
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"He who gives up a little of his freedom for a little security is neither free or secure,"
im sorry but we do this all the time.
we give up the freedom to have fires in the city. we give up the freedom to keep all our money we earn so we can have a military, and diplomats. we give up the right to walk around nakid in public so our kids can be secure from exposure to that kind of thing.
i mean, i have actually really looked at the patriot act and such, and i am not defending Bush, but government is constantly balancing diffirent rights and needs of the people. it is not possible to have everything all of the time.
Yeah Paul, but those aren't exactly constitutionaly declared laws... right to privacy and search and seizure is.
Paul your missing the point. We should vote on giving up freedoms..Bush is NOT a dictator that can pick and choose which constitutional amendments to honor or ignore.
If its not voted on by the people, then our duly elected officials get to do it. AND THEY DIDNT on the wiretapping exercise. BushCo is required by law to inform certain heads of Congress known as the Gang of 4 and the Gang of 8, when he undertakes spying on his OWN people..we arent talking about listening in on Al Queda calls..we are talking about Aunt Mary saying the word bomb and Al Queda in the same sentence and bells and whistles go off somewhere at the Pentagon and half a dozen people spend the next week of their life listening to every single phone call Aunt Mary makes..and all the old bag talks about is her cherry pies shes making..its not only a waste of money..its illegal..
EXACTLY!
Ever think of teaching a poly-sci class?
I plead the fifth...and ignorance.
Bush probably wiretapped some of his friends trying to find out who stole his ipod.
I sent your blatantly ANTI-AMERICAN comments to the White House to be further investigated.
You're some sort of liberal commy rat bastard pinko terrorist supporting facist!!!!
Excellent analogy.
You know who's really standing up against the Patriot Act and the Bush Administration? Gun Owners of America. yes, their website has a piece by piece criticism of the Patriot Act and everything wrong with it. GOA is heavily pro-America too. They know that you can catch the bad guys without circumventing the laws. Why can't Bush? He has no respect for our Constitution. And no, I didn't vote for him either time.
Every group that values their freedoms are blasting BushCo for their spurrious practices and illegal wiretapping ZS. The "I" word is getting a workout..couldnt happen to a nicer guy..
Hey the could have some poor government intern reading this blog for un-American activities?!
Well since Anonymous cant sign in,he is obviously paranoid or something about Big Brotha..
They, meaning the government read my political blog all the time..i get hits from the Dept of Justice AND the Pentagon..hope they enjoy the hell out of my rants :)
Jack H is trying to set me up by posting false homosexually charged messages in my 'anonymous' name on his 'Forgotten Prophets' blog. He may be doing the same elsewhere. I believe that he also plans to post a photo and a link and make it appear as if I posted that photo myself. If you happen to see this photo and know of its source, post that source here. There may be criminal activity involved.
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