I didn’t like what I was hearing back in 2004
When the NSA wiretapping thing broke open. I didn’t like what I was hearing then and I am damn sure that what we heard was only the surface of what was going on. Well gee, guess fucking what? It was.
President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001. The disclosure makes clear that a controversial National Security Agency program was part of a much broader operation than the president previously described.
It really angers me that they were able to use the fear card and now as a result MY civil liberties are being violated secretly. As a blogger I have no doubt that some of my posts at my old cite would have been “swept” up in data mining searches.
You know what now this one will be too. All you have to do is type ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR,
A FEW FUCKING TIMES AND YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THE GOVERNMENT TAKES A LOOK AT WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
sorry Jason, had to be done.
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I remember when the bastards mined my file back in early 2006.
Although I’m upset about illegal search and seizure procedures (per our Constitution), what is really disturbing is that the wiretap program allowed self-interested government officials to take a ‘peek’ at the financials of those who might be competing with ‘friends’ of said politicians. For instance, if a contractor was bidding in competition with Halliburton, what would the temptation be to review the financials of the contractor to dig up a little dirt that might hurt the bidding process?
The people who designed the Constitution did a pretty good job, in that they knew human nature. The prohibitions against invasion of privacy are there to keep the sleazeballs in check. When someone, or a government power, seeks to circumvent Constitutional prohibitions, no matter what the excuse (“its because the terrists’ are gonna’ git you all”) we all suffer an erosion of the beneficense of government.
The only thing that truly scares me more than the illegal wiretap program is the fact that several of our ‘public servants’ voted for torture.
That is simply not what we are about, boys and girls. There are no justifications for government to torture and illegally spy on our citizens. None. Ever.