has lost their rights, UNJUSTLY ???
I'd be interested in hearing from ANYONE who has had their phone-calls monitored AND as a result. .........been arrested and jailed or have received a 'Presidential Order' that they now have less rights and will be followed, day and night, to make SURE they comply !!!
2006-12-19 04:20:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
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2006-12-19 04:24:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This question is gibberish. You don't have to be arrested in order to have your rights taken away. The constitution states clearly that a warrant is required by a judge in order for the government to search your property. It was determined decades ago that personal property includes the monitoring of electronic communications, i.e. wire tapping. If congress passes a law that allows law enforcement to wiretap someone on American soil, without a warrant, that law is unconstitutional. I don't see how someone who calls himself a conservative can support the undermining of the constitution.
EDIT - It doesn't matter what president did it. If it was done under a previous administration, the current administration is still wrong for letting the practice continue.
2006-12-19 12:29:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The government does not announce to you that your phones are being tapped. But that is part of the problem. I don't think the Bush Administration is interested in my conversations with my friends and family. But then no one expected the excesses of McCarthyism either until it was out of control. I don't think it's a matter of feeling that we are are all being wiretapped. It's opening that door just a crack that is the problem. The wrong person with the wrong agenda sticks his big foot in it, shoves it all the way open, and then we DO have a problem. This issue requires a complete and total trust in our government from anyone supporting this policy. I trust our Constitution can protect us all from shady political motives, but only if we follow its concepts. I know better than to trust politicians when it comes to their motives and hidden agendas. Don't you? It may start with the excellent concept of protecting us all and end with a David Duke type individual who will claim the end justifies the means; but it's their end, not ours, and that end could include tracking anyone who doesn't "agree" with their politics. Paranoid? Perhaps, but history might agree with me.
2006-12-19 12:44:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does it get tiring always missing the point and having to have things explained to you? Whether it has happened yet, or not, (and while I don't know of anybody it has happened to, I am sure it has,) the government should not have the power to do so.
Plus the fact that it is "secret", would the person that has been watched and tapped even know? Not until his *** was slammed into jail. And maybe he would never know because he did nothing wrong. And that would be a violation of his privacy, while maybe not a big deal to you, a huge one to me.
2006-12-19 12:33:39 · answer #4 · answered by capu 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think wiretaps are fine and even secret wiretaps are fine, as long as they have a warrant from a court. Yes, that can be a secret court, but they shouldn't just go out and wiretap without making it official. My concern is for constitutional process, not for privacy rights.
2006-12-19 12:29:53 · answer #5 · answered by braennvin2 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Are you doing a quality control survey for Homeland Security.
If anyone answers yes then they get visited again by the Government Ninjas putting hidden microphones in you pajamas.
Go big Red Go
2006-12-19 12:47:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The operative word that you're missing is "SECRET" wiretapping. We don't know who is being wiretapped, what is being collected how it is being used.
Last I looked, there was still an amendment that talked about probable cause.
2006-12-19 12:25:54 · answer #7 · answered by words_smith_4u 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
lol, you are a simple person aren't you... the wire tapping itself is a loss of a right... silly boy... but yes this has fizzled out because we have more pressing things to fix.. like say Bush's mess in Iraq.. we'll come back to this one in time.. because unlike yourself, the democratic party has vision and scope and are able to prioritize issues.
2006-12-19 12:26:37 · answer #8 · answered by pip 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
well .. i think the problem is the door is opened .. while times arnt so bad its hard to notice, but let hard times fall in the US and you will find out just how many rights u have left ...
2006-12-19 12:25:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
the gov't monintored my phone calls i know this because i was talking on the phone and a voice said 'this is george bush your calls are being minitored"
get a life it is scary.
2006-12-19 12:24:30 · answer #10 · answered by theliberal14you 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋