Can you believe these liberal judges?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060817/ap_on_go_pr_wh/warrantless_surveillance

"The government argued that the program is well within the president's authority, but said proving that would require revealing state secrets."







Obviously, they support the terrorists cause. Do you feel less safe now that these liberal judges are taking control of the government and not allowing wiretapping without a warrant? grrrr. Makes me want to vote Republican just to show them who is boss.




(note: if you can't detect sarcasm...this little note is for you!)

Answer 1

[sarcasm]These judges are unAmerican!

They should be removed from the bench for allowing the future of our nation to be threatened by denying the government unlimited power to surveil us!!! if the government can't protect and guide us, how will we ever survive as a nation? if this keeps up, we might have to revert back to the US Constitution. It's sickening![/sarcasm]

Answer 2

I got the note about the sarcasm - unfortunately the part about the unbelievable liberal judges happens to be too true so one wonders about the questioner. The whole wiretapping without warrants thing was blown up for political reasons anyway - the loony lying left losers would have us believe the government is snooping on all of us every day. The only people making noise about this are those who are worried their own wrongdoing will be revealed anyway. As for how we've lost all our freedoms - two comments:

1) I haven't lost anything. I still do exactly the same things I've always done, and new things to boot!

2) I'm "more free" in many ways - because I'm free of worrying about being blown up or run into a building if I fly, for instance, or for that matter being randomly blown up for just going somewhere for any reason.

And here's a bonus:

3) The left says George Bush made us less safe by encouraging more people to become terrorists and made us less free by snooping on us and such. These people who are committing terrorists acts were already predisposed to be terrorists - if anything we should be thanking Bush for giving them that nudge that brought out these tendencies so we can capture and imprison, or better yet, eliminate them. As for the idiots like one of my friends who say they would rather have terrorists blowing up our public places than suffer the patriot acts, wire tapping and bank transaction monitoring, they're obviously in need of some medication adjustment. I for one am glad that we've been relatively terror free here at home despite regular threats from the usual suspects. The problem is we're not doing enough - North Korea and Iran, for instance, need some attention, but unfortunately most of the world is too stupid to see that and too lazy or timid to do their part.

Answer 3

It has been a long time since i took Constitutional Law in law school, but it's my understanding that wriretapping is constitutional as long as one party to the conversation knows the line is tapped. So, yeah, i feel even less safe, and it somehwat supports my theory that goes as follows:
These piece of sh*t terrorists use our very legal system and bill of rights against us. While these judges you refer to will shrug their shoulders and say 'Well im sorry but thats the law and we have to abide to it', it doesnt stop the terrorists from bringing explosives onto airplanes in the form of Coca Cola that can be ignited by pressing 'play' on an iPod. Its the "not seeing the forest from the trees" problem. I live in NYC, and i think its insane that someone would challenge the NYPD's right to randomly inspect people's bags. While these morons claim an invasion of privacy, they do not understand that they are letting terrorsts (and possibly just common criminals) harness weapons and other dangerous items in a time of "clear and present danger" and when national security is at risk. i believe it is the people claiming "invasion of privacy" that have the most to hide, otherwise it wouldnt be such a big deal. I'd like to see them argue 'invasion of privacy' if (Good God forbid) an explosive is set off or anthrax is released in the NYC Subway system like the threats we've been getting.
God Bless the NYPD is what i say. OK, lecture over. Quiz on Monday.

Answer 4

We have a lot of people in this country whose good intentions will spell our doom if we do not stop them.

They seem to think if we are just nice to terrorists they will stop hating us.

These terrorists with their heads covered half the time remind me of the KKK. They think like KKK, just pure hatred.

I wonder for those that think we are the ones that made the terrorists mad, when they see how they are much like the KKK will explain to me what the black people did to make the KKK hate them.

It is time to give our judicial system an overhaul that starts with the end of lifetime appointments and puts the power back in the hands of voters.

Answer 5

I observed something on CNN (you recognize the uber liberal channel) and they were actually saying that it did not remember if the recent choose grow to be a liberal, when you consider that Souter sided with the liberals lots of the time besides, and yet the great court remains considered extremely conservative.

Answer 6

I know right? Can you believe a federal judge could be persuaded to say that listening to american citizen's conversations, without a warrent (that can be obtained after the fact anyway), is unconstitutional! I mean everyone knows that both speech and privacy rights were only ever meant to be conveinences anyway.

Those crazy people and their personal liberties.

Answer 7

That's ok - slowly but surely those judges are being replaced with judges who understand that their job isn't to legislate from the bench.

It's gonna be a REAL SHOCK to some folks as it becomes increasingly clear that legislators legislate (even if, when it comes to substantive issues, most of 'em don't want to), executives lead, and judges rule BASED ON THE LAW.

Answer 8

No, this decision is a truly conservative view. As in a direct reading of the constitution. There is nothing liberal about it.

Answer 9

Think this could lead to impeachment???? It's unconstitutional meaning the president broke the law....how fast will the supreme court take this up??? and what will happen?

Answer 10

Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither