Why have I not heard any liberals screaming in the past 48 hrs about the President doing Wire Tapping?

Question

Hmmm, seems the events in the past 48 hours for yet another Terrorist attack on our Country has certainly silenced (temporarily, I'm affraid) the liberals about the President of the United States not having the right to order Wire Tapping !!

THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH for ordering WIRE TAPPING and all the other intelligence that was used to intercept this planned attack!

I know that during turbulent times of war and terrorism, the #1 rule of PATRIOTISM is to support our President during such times !!!

I support everything you and your Administration is doing to keep us safe and I APPRECIATE IT !!!

I'm even glad that Cindy Shehan is safe today also. Maybe for the next few days she will re-direct her efforts to support our troops and understand that there is a reason that we are at war ... and we wont stop until we eliminate all those who want to harm our Country and our people.

THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH !!

Answer 1

Wiretapping shouldn't offend anyone but criminals, that's how they figure out who kills people now days allot of times. It doesn't take from our freedoms, just can't talk about blowing up stuff or killing each other on the phone anymore. If you live a normal life no big deal, actually it allows us to do this safely. I wouldn't care if they listened and watched me always because I do no wrong.

Answer 2

I have gone back and forth on my opinion of wire tapping many times. I always come back to the same conclusion: if you have nothing to hide, what is the big deal? Although I am no supporter of Bush, he really just can't win. If he cannot prevent a terror attack, people yell he should have done something. When he tries to prevent things from happening by doing things such as wire tapping, people cry that it kills the right to privacy. Unfortunately, we have to give up some liberties if we want to be safe in the world today.

I just don't care if the government listens to me talking to my friends about the day I have had. I would much rather be safe and sound because wire tapping caught terrorists planning an attack.

Answer 3

Wire tapping is fine--if there's a warrant. FISA is a law set up by Congress that created dedicated courts expressly for reviewing warrants for the types of wiretaps the Bush administration does in attempts to listen in on potential terrorists.

Why would Bush want to bypass the courts? FISA courts wouldn't be any more prone to leaks than executive bureaus like the Department of Justice--probably less. The administration has claimed that the process is too slow. Well, the FISA courts are kind of unique in that they allow for applying for a warrant up to 72 hours AFTER THE FACT if the wiretap is sufficiently urgent and justified. If the infrastructure for handling the warrant requests isn't up to the job or the volume then they should update it.

However I think anyone who thinks about it for a minute understands that Bush isn't bypassing the courts because they're inefficient or too slow. He's bypassing them because they're doing widespread eavesdropping that wouldn't stand up to any sort of review.

He claims this as a 'wartime' authority. The war is 'The War on Terror,' a completely open-ended conflict that could last forever since terrorism is a tactic and not an ideology. 'The War on Terror' could last as long as 'The War on Drugs' will--and that's forever. So we're supposed to hand the president and all his successors the ability to spy on us at will, with no oversight from anyone? No thanks.

So if you're looking for someone complaining about Bush's wiretaps--although I don't 'scream'--then you can count me in. I never stopped, not even temporarily. If a wiretap allowed us to help the UK find and stop a terrorist plot that's great. They still need a warrant. If the wiretap was the result of a focused investigation--which I bet it was--then there's absolutely no reason they couldn't have.

By bypassing the courts and listening to U.S. citizens' private conversations without a warrant the Bush administration is simply choosing to ignore FISA and the Fourth Amendment. That makes them worse than negligent of their obligation to protect our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It makes them criminals.

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In this particular incident the U.S. surveillance was conducted in accordance with FISA by getting a FISA warrant. So I've got no gripe with it. It's the non-FISA wiretapping that's illegal and has people who believe in our democracy and the rule of law upset.

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"If you've got nothing to hide then you don't have anything to worry about" is NOT a valid argument:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApUYZwc95KfE.Lwpjlmp17vsy6IX?qid=20060725145256AA9wbXW

It doesn't allow for choice or consent and the government does not have a right to arbitrary search and seizure. The government has no right to listen to my phone calls without a reason. That's the fourth amendment and our founding fathers didn't put it there for no reason. We shouldn't give it away--even if you don't understand what it's for. It doesn't matter if all the government hears is my grocery list. They've got to provide a reason to listen in and then get a warrant. That's the law.

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."--Benjamin Franklin

Our current president is not above the law, regardless of what he thinks. If you endorse the idea of a president being above the law then you don't really want a president anymore--you want a king or a dictator.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Have you noticed the amount of money and effort the FCC has used to get the Programming chip into your TV? That's because the IR receiver can be used, if you change the bandwidth, as a camera. And if you have a digital phone in the room you now have video (TV) and audio (PHONE) in the same room. Get it! I really think Bush is the unwanted offspring of J. Edgar Hoover. Paranoid to the max, and a wannabe Texan from Connecticut.

Answer 6

I am glad you gave us your definition of patriotism.

Personally, I see patriotism as protecting the Constitution of the United States. Without that document we are nothing. Bush pushes the Patriot Act and takes some of these freedoms away. But according to him, as documented by MANY reporters, the Constitution is just a god damn piece of paper.

Keep preaching about your patriotism, soon enough you'll be living in a police state. Where your every move is traced and watched, every phonecall recorded, every business transaction traced. The Patriot Act defines EVERYONE as a suspect, including Americans.

Answer 7

You are not an American. You do not believe in the basic principles that this country was founded on. My ancestors bled and died to make this a free country and you want to turn it into a dictatorship.

Cindy Shehan's son bled and died in Iraq. Surely that gives her the right to have an opinion.

After all, you have an opinion lame though it be, and what have you done for this country?

Answer 8

Screw Bush. The whole thing was fabricated and exaggerated to instill fear in the hearts of the American people in order to justify the continuance of the illegal and dishonest war on terrorism. When people are afraid they follow like sheep. All part of the biggest conspiracy in history. "We have nothing to fear but fear A "itself. A great president said that not a loser like Bush.

Answer 9

Thank goodness for you! Someone who has nothing to bit%h about today and the USA. I totally agree...I may not agree with everything Bush does but I do agree that I can sleep well at night knowing our troops and govt are keeping us safe!

Answer 10

no offense but bush had nothing to do with that it was the british officials who caught the terrorist, pleas give credit were credit is due.