2007-01-05 02:14:03 · 16 answers · asked by lily 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
no i don`t have anything to hide and i`m from a military family and just as patriotic as the rest but with all the liberties we have lost that is not why my mother and father were in ww2 and korea to see what they fought for being abused
2007-01-05 02:25:30 · update #1
They already can. The law was only designed to give them the authority in emergencies. Quit distorting the truth
2007-01-05 02:16:18 · answer #1 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not at all. Living in London and having been on the Tube the day terrorists blew up dozens of people (7/7/06) I support any action the security bodies want to take to spot and hopefully catch terrorists/drug smugglers etc before these scum hurt me or my family. So what if some poor agent reads my emails. He/she may learn some pretty sensitive stuff about me but they don't do blackmail or kiss and tell so where is the harm? After all my Colorectal consultant knows ratehr a lot about my private parts and I allowed that to keep me safe from cancer so I would be silly to worry about the CIA/etc knowing about my sex life if the only reason they are seeing such info is because they are trying to keep me and everyone else safe.
2007-01-05 02:26:55 · answer #2 · answered by patti_felz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well they always could and they could listen into phone calls. It has always been that way. Those powers are part of organized crime statutes and now have been extended to terror suspects. What you are saying is more political jargon than reality. Do you think there are hundreds of thousands of people hired to listen to phone calls and open people's mail. Nope. We are in the political season and buzzwords and slogans are out there for idiots to buy into and forget reality. The Feds have had the authority to do mail covers for about 45 years but you are supposed to believe that someone just came up with that. the sky really isn't falling Henny Penny, its just politicians feeding you horse ****. Don't eat all the baloney politicians try to fed you because if you check you might find not very much of it is true.
2007-01-05 02:19:39 · answer #3 · answered by Tom W 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
They can't open it willy nilly. This is something the post office has had the authority to do for years. Here's what the signing statement says:
"The executive branch shall construe subsection 404(c) of title 39, as enacted by subsection 1010(e) of the act, which provides for opening of an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection, in a manner consistent, to the maximum extent permissible, with the need to conduct searches in exigent circumstances, such as to protect human life and safety against hazardous materials, and the need for physical searches specifically authorized by law for foreign intelligence collection.
Not the last line "specifically authorized by law"
2007-01-05 02:18:21 · answer #4 · answered by JB 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Postal Vice President Tom Day said: "As has been the long-standing practice, first-class mail is protected from unreasonable search and seizure when in postal custody. Nothing in the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act changes this protection. The president is not exerting any new authority."
Nothing has changed... no new laws.... stop trying to incite discourse.
2007-01-05 02:19:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
No, I am not worried. The only mail I get is bills and if they open them they can pay them. If they do open your mail though, they have 48 hours to report to court and give their reasons for opening it.
2007-01-05 02:23:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not too much. They can read all of the silly spiritual crap that I correspond with people about, or all the other things that go something like, "Hey do you want to do something on the 15th?"
2007-01-05 02:17:06 · answer #7 · answered by Jeffery K 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hell yes!
But only liberals think that limiting our freedoms to catch terrorists is a poor trade off, or at least that's what the totalitarian conservatives would have you think.
America is all about freedom and to a certain extent each time we enact a law like this one, the terrorists have one a battle. They can't beat us, so they are getting us to beat ourselves.
Get a warrant. I don't even mind the 72 hour delay thing. Just don't take away basic freedoms.
2007-01-05 02:19:55 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
FDR started that well before ww2 broke out. Not really, because anything they find is one of two things. It is either illegal, and therefore I deserve to go to jail, or it is legal, and then they just reseal it.
2007-01-05 02:16:36 · answer #9 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They can also listen in on your telephone conversations and do anything else to invade your privacy. Our freedoms are slowly being eroded. If you protest, you'll end up in jail on some trumped up charge.
2007-01-05 02:20:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋