What are you doing that makes you worried about Bush?

Question

My phone records will indicated that my wife called her mother a couple times this week and I called my dentist to check the time of an appointment. My banking records will show that I deposited my paycheck and payed the utility and mortgage bills and withdrew some cash from the ATM and I doubt any of that went though any international clearing house.
My question for all of you so paranoid about the Bush monitoring programs is: What are you doing that you are so worried someone might see?

Plus- Is Bush peeking over your dressing room door? No.

General comment to the "defend our freedoms/slippery slope" crowd.

You do NOT have the freedom to transfer funds to a terrorist organization or use phone/fax/email channels to plot acts of terrorism against the US. Sorry to break it to you. Those are EXACTLY the things the programs search for....not a happy birthday call from you Aunt Edna.

Plus, I got your analogy, but are you seriously comparing anti terrorism tactics to trying on clothes??? And guess what, you don't have privacy there either. The clerks monitor you for theft by giving you a tag that matches how many items you have, the store has electronic tags marking their clothes, and signs are posted that say "This dressing room monitored by store employees" so you are too late there, too.

Answer 1

I agree with you. Besides, with the recent terrorist threat it is most necessary to protect American citizens.

Answer 2

Your trying to justify the argument that if you do not like what he is doing, you must be hiding something. Sorry, that logic does not work with me.

This country has a bill of rights, some of those rights include the right to privacy. Unless someone is a known or suspected 'evil doer' as Georgie likes to call them, there is no justification to snoop on people.

Since when is objecting to a president abusing the powers of his office being paranoid? He ,nor the NSA should be above the law.
The country has had laws in place and provisions to handle special circumstances. Any agency or person who operates above the law, or changes laws to accommodate their beliefs is not upholding the constitution.

That is why members of his own party like Arlen Spectre are taking him to court to challenge it. Any agency or person who operates an ostentatious government to serve their own needs is a danger to the constitution, not a protector like the oath of office says.

And if the argument is that the country is safer, not true. This could be used for political gain by spying on other candidates, used to a persons advantage. It simply is wrong, it is illegal, it is an abuse of power. It is more like a gestapo or SS out of Nazi germany, than it is behaving like a democracy.

And to give an agency like the NSA unlimited power and not be held accountable or explain their actions is not only wrong but dangerous. Even the bar association protests the legality of these actions.

A person who challenges this is not hiding anything, not a liberal, not a criminal... simply a patriot. The laws of this country were made by men much wiser than him, and they have worked just fine. Recent events are a good illustration that by making people fear something, they will rush to give away their rights. That is an agenda Wolfowitz, Cheney and company have been working on for over a decade.

Perhaps, since you feel it is okay to have your privacy removed, then he and Mr. Cheney should also follow the example and divulge their little secrets about Enron, Haliburton, the leaking of CIA agents names, what they really know about 9/11, the truth behind the lack of WMD, the list could go on....

Of course ther is no sense to make any points with you, your so obviously pro- bush, you would not be able to distinguish the fact that what was once a decent political party has been taken over by self serving extremists.

Answer 3

The simple fact is it is against the law and a violation of the constitution. If you don't love the constitution there are plenty of places you can move to. If you are not in favor of protecting the integrity of the constitution, isn't that un-patriotic?

It isn't even the DOJ that is doing the monitoring. It is the DOD. The military is now deciding what rights you have and what you don't. It would be hard for me to think of anything more unamerican than that!

Answer 4

This question illustrates the very difference between a loyalist and a patriot. How would you react if it were Clinton doing these things? I'll bet you would not be so comfortable.

What if your dentist is giving money to Lebanon? And they trace it to someone buying weapons to from Iran? Now YOU are in trouble and can be thrown in jail for having "terrorist" ties.

People like you would have disgusted our founding fathers.

Answer 5

It is about my civil rights and how the government violates the Constitution!

I don't care what you do, I am not willing to flush the Constitution down the drain like you apparently are.

You have no idea what information they collect as it is secret! I really hate people who spy on people in secret, like the Nazis did!

I don't care why they are doing it! There were a legal means they could have done the same thing, but they just don't have Carte Blanche to monitor people without their knowledge! You are also assuming they only had good intentions, like J. Edgar Hoover!

Answer 6

I don't worry over this... I do worry that all those great people from our last civil war will turn over in there graves oh soooo many that fought & died so we would not be spied on by our own goverment.
I do all those things that you mentioned but I also talk to people in Iraq & all over the world by computer. I believe its my right to get the facts from as many sources as I WANT TO.
I believe that the goverment will protect me from terrorist and from unlawful spying. BOTH can be done.
All this says I am a American

Answer 7

What are you doing in the dressing room that you don't want people to see? Or is it your right to try on a pair of jeans without someone watching you?

Obviously my answer is over your head like a 747. Its called an analogy. Good grief.

Answer 8

That is a great question.

And a simple one to answer.

If you have nothing to hide, what are you afraid of.

One theory I have is that there are many libs out there who have some kind of perverse sexual dysfunction, and they're petrified of being outed.

Answer 9

Speaking my opinion openly about this administration. McCarthyism wasn't that long ago...

Don't forget what experts we are on identifying terrorists...we racially profile mexicans as islamists. With all of the problems with security that the vets administrations are having, I want to know who has my information, so when they out me on a list I don't belong on, I know who to call. Are you serious?

Answer 10

Because it is a very slippery slope my friend. Very Slippery. Where do we draw the line? Who decides where it ends? If we don't defend our freedoms now it could be too late.