Do you feel less safe today?
You do realize that the “Protect America Act” has expired right? So with a name like that and it has expired that MUST mean we aren’t protected right now. Honestly, I don’t know how I am able to keep it together right now. I’m trembling with fear and every man that looks slightly Muslim is going to get a sock right in the mouth if I have my way today. Hell, pregnant women with down syndrome might as well kiss their asses goodbye! I’m not taking this sitting down people. WE AREN’T SAFE RIGHT NOW! Hell Carper voted to protect the Tele-com industry.
Hell, Bush said if At&t isn’t protected from being sued by you for spying on you illegally, well this country can’t be protected:
Without this protection, without this liability shield, we may not be able to secure the private sector’s cooperation with our intelligence efforts, and that of course would put the American people at risk.
I can’t sleep at night people when the President says things like this:
I can assure you, Al Qaida in their planning isn’t thinking about politics, they’re thinking about hurting the American people again.
I’m picturing OBL all whacked on on opium, cleaning his gun and planning to kill me! Oh fuck! I just crapped myself! oh man…this is really bad. And you assholes are just reading at this, you might even be laughing! Do you realize that he said this on Valentine’s day. Maybe you think it’s ironic, but this guy doesn’t do stuff on accident. This was a warning on a very special day created by a company that was trying to boost it’s profits and come up with a way for men to buy it’s cards.
I’m buying duct tape and plastic and shielding my home as we speak. God damnit! I don’t feel safe.
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oh christ I’m so scared. this is seriois shit, I am strtng to spell like Jason now! Oh God, I see a light coming towards me. Oh shit, the end is near.
Good bye all, this is the end of the United States as we know it! PROTECT AMERICA HAS EXPIRED. We are like a sitting ducks.
I’m killing my wife and kids right now before the terrorists do! That will show them! You can’t kill me fuckers
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Just when I thought it wasn’t possible for you to be bigger moronic ass than you already are, you go and prove me wrong.
You don’t feel less safe precisely BECAUSE all that has been done. The bill expiring will not undo all the good work that was done up until this point. But with the pqssing of time its protective effects will begin to fade…and someday, unfortunately, even you will see how much of ass you are today.
stop it chris, stop it!
I’m al ready terrified and you have to go lumping it on top! jesus, no you know ends to get your point across!
great, just great!
i just peed myself now too
are you happy?
without this liability shield, we may not be able to secure the private sector’s cooperation
This is crap – there is no liability for cooperating with a warrant. Actually they would have hell of a lot more liability if they DIDN’T cooperate with a warrant.
But warrants are so cumbersome, so quaint…
If the telecoms were just “doing their patriotic duty” – which is the so-called absolving factor to the Rule-of-Men Right – what do you call it now that those same Telecoms stopped doing their “Patriotic Duty” because the Fed didn’t pay their bill?
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSEIC07119120080110
Can’t have it both ways now, can you?
Bastrd!
Look, if we can’t agree on a liability shield, shat about a liability deflector. I think the boys in the engine room can whip one up, right Scotty?
This is such a load of crap it should be called the “protect the corporate good ole’ boys network” act of 2008. I hate it when legislation looks like it was written by a syndicate and not by the government. Now you see if any terror occurs all the corporate shills will barrell in on the democrats to for mostly having the balls to stand up against this stuff. God I can’t wait until we have a democrat in the oval office.
Brian: From your mouth to God’s ear.
DV: The End of America as you’ve known it happened when the chimp and his cronies stole the 2000 election It’s been like peeling an onion; nobody notices until it’s all gone. I believe this is why voter turnout this cycle is so high. They’re finally waking up.
Now go clean up, put on a diaper (ask David Vitter which brand is best) have a drink and take slow deep breaths. You’ll feel better.
We’re here for you guy.
Dear Cajun,
If god was listening to me, he would know that the bush administration need to be hospitalized and given thorazine.
Other than that, I do not see why we need to give up our social liberties to corporations, I feel this lends to all kinds of arbitartyu abuses as it did at the begining of the industrial revolution. i would prefer us to deal with the problem of terror intelligently then as a way to make money or profit off the backs of the common people. What say you?
I don’t know anything about this specific issue. Of course, with Bush, extreme suspicion is a reasonable default. Also, the post is funny.
But actually, donviti, we should be scared. There is a robustly militant faction within Islam that embraces genocide as God’s will. It is not just a few people, they are not without money and the restraining forces within some of their various countries are currently precarious.
We shouldn’t be naive about historical causes either. We shouldn’t accede to the American exceptionalism that permeates both the far left and the far right. America is neither singularly good nor singularly evil. We’ve added many insults and humilations to the cumulative Arab/Islamic scorecard. Out of both greed and fear we’ve bullied people in Muslim countries like an empire, culminating now, in our idiot prince’s Iraq tragedy. However, we’ve also sometimes tried to do the right thing (read about Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, and, believe it or not, Bush II).
Importantly, we should be aware of the strong tradition within Islamic societies of misogyny (not “Three’s Company” stuff, but actual murder and mutilation).
We should also note that Mid-east muslim nations have mostly, so far, only advanced to the point of monarchy or dictatorship. And many are sustained, politically, on the hope of genocide (e.g., of jews in Isreal, or Americans in the U.S.)
I think the left, same as the right, needs to grasp that there are strong forces in the world that we haven’t entirely caused and may not be able to effect, either by force or friendship.
And we should acknowledge this just because knowledge is better than ignorance.
Dear Puzzler,
I am not so sure we need to be afraid as well informed. That being said, the minority who do want to do us harm can be dealt with effevctively. I posted the strategy for asymetrical warfare over at FSP. It does not pay us anything and loses us everything to fight a symetrical war against an asymetrical enemy.
If you want to win against that minority we need to do a few things, 1. change our agressive poily in the middle east, 2. address terrorism as a symptom of indigenous development in the middle east, 3. use our tools to combat it more effectively without all this gung ho crap. A covert war should be fought in an unrestricted way and covertly. We do not need to send out the 7th fleet to destroy these minoirties of violence. Their rage is symptomatic of frustrated arab nationalism. And many of this group own huge corporations we of necessity depend on for our oil needs; the first step in breaking the chain is to change our need for so much oil. But without the political will to do so we are going to be dependent on this and wind up committing genocide in order to win rather than using our resources more effectively. Historical experience teaches us much, but it cannot teach us anything if we decide to whitewash it with “we good” “they bad” save the western world ideas. It take a lot more than wishful thinking to win wars in Asia. So the pentagon better get with it or we can expect to be bankrupt while our CIA is left handicapped.
Now we do not need draconian laws to do it, that restruict our liberties, we need educated citizens who know how to demolish the mind set that leads to terrorism. There are many effective strategies, the Biden plan is a good one, other strategies are out there that work well- personally for fighting the war I would suggest we all go out and read “unrestricted warfare” and maybe even Che Guevara and Mao and implement their “people’s war” strategy against the terrorists becuase there is no possible way to win an asymetrical war with a symetircal war strategy. Unless of course someone has decided that we do not want to win and we just want to keep fighting.
puzzler, thanks for commenting and visiting.
I don’t disagree there are people trying to kill us. I disagree that AT&T needs to be given immunity for helping Bush Break the law and that without that immunity the country is less safe…
There is no doubt that there are people out there looking to hurt us. But we should not succumb to the BushCo version of fear that simply wants us to hand over to the Executive Branch alot of power to curtail the rights of citizens. We should be asking them what are they doing to make sure that these crazies are disarmed — as in what pressure is being brought to bear on Saudi Arabia to stem the flow of money to these groups? As in where is the urgency to reduce our dependence on oil — the oil at such high prices that it provides enough funds for these crazies to fight with us on a couple of fronts. As in where is the ramped up security at ports and airplane cargo?
This administration is alot less interested in security than it is in accumulating power that is unaccountable to any branch of government or to its citizens.
Brian,
I totally agree with you. My phone bills show how many calls I’ve made to our Congress Critters, but to no avail. Carper still caves at just about every turn on this issue. And since I’m a Dem Castle doesn’t bother to even answer my letters to his office.
They’d prefer to protect the Telecoms over the American people. If Verizon, AT&T, et al did nothing wrong why do they need immunity?
I lived in NYC during the first WTC attack and I haven’t felt safe since, especially after Ghouliani insisted on putting the emergency center back in the tower after that attack.
We need more progressives in DC, and not those hand picked by Rahm Emmanuel. And that’s just what happened in VA when Donna Edwards won despite being snubbed by the party leaders.
Keep that chin up and keep fighting.