I assume this is without court warrants...isn't this against the concepts of freedom and privacy promised by the Constitution? Don't the conservatives believe that the Constitution is what separates us from tyranny...Did they ever read about the Boston Tea Party and the Revolution in 1776? The freedom to own a gun, express your opinions, have your own faith, as well as the privacy of your thoughts (in the mail to your friends) is what makes this country great....Is the next item on Bush's agenda to make free speech illegal? My reading of it says that the government has the responsibilty to protect us and at the same time guarantere freedom. Let us protect ourselves...it is better to be free and die trying than to endure tyranny.
2007-01-06 17:17:10 · 18 answers · asked by Ford Prefect 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
protect me by taking my guaranteed freedoms away in the name of what...a possible orange alert?
2007-01-06 17:23:00 · update #1
open the paper Eldude
2007-01-06 17:25:17 · update #2
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. US Constitution
2007-01-06 17:35:15 · update #3
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. US Constitution
2007-01-06 17:36:33 · update #4
Because all he gets is hate mail! Actually its just one more violations of our liberty under his "patroit" realated acts that are any thing but patoritic. The longer he continues this crap the more nazi like he becomes, even the late Jerry Ford, Jams Baker, Colin Powell, do not support him!
2007-01-06 18:33:43 · answer #1 · answered by paulisfree2004 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The President is tasked with being the commander-in-chief of the military and to defend this country. With that comes the ability to conduct intelligence operations, no?
Without a warrant means you can't use what you discover in a court of law. This isn't about law enforcement though. This is national security.
So if someone in the US is in communications with a foreign terrorist, I want my gov't monitoring those communications.
Oh, and free speech, or at least some types of it, have already been made illegal by McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform, every congressperson who voted for it, and the Supreme Court. All said it is perfectly acceptable to ban issue ads from special interest groups just before an election. So the Sierra club can't say candidate X record is good or bad on the environment and ask us to vote a certain way. The NRA can't either. Neither can thousands of others. So much for free speech?
We've also already lost the right to avoid unreasonable search and seizures. And it was long before Bush came to power. Have you been to an airport in the last 30 years? They search every carry on bag regardless of any probable cause. Since 9/11 they search people at random. Apparently the 4th Amendment is null and void at the airport.
2007-01-06 19:25:31 · answer #2 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I doubt that Bush himself will be reading any mail. However, there is no federal constitutional right to privacy. The fourth amendment specifies that we are to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, etc. That being said, there is a wealth of case law on what that means exactly.
Anything entering the country may be x-rayed or physically opened by U.S. customs. As for domestic mail, suspicious packages can already be opened by postal employees.
How does one define suspicious?
Should a postal worker have to contact their supervisor who will then contact a judge on a saturday evening just for a warrant to open a package that is leaking some weird powder or liquid?
I don't think this bill really changes anything from the way it has been for a very long time. It also doesn't prohibit anyone from freely expressing their opinions or thoughts.
In reality, I doubt people would actually write letters to their fellow conspirators with their evil plans anyhow. I consider myself lucky when anything I mail actually gets to the recipient in a timely manner!
This issue is interesting, but its not worrying about. In fact, I must be very bored right now to have actually given it so much thought.
2007-01-06 17:33:07 · answer #3 · answered by nauticalpsycho 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
i desire we nonetheless had privateness even nevertheless it doesnt look that it is going to take place till 08. i've got faith the form replaced into put in place for a reason and that i think of it nonetheless could desire to be observed yet i assume Bush is above the regulation. Counting down the days and desire all gets extra perfect with the rustic quickly. The Dems took workplace at present God Bless
2016-11-27 01:13:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he's the "Decider" and whatever he decides to do, whether or not it is following the laws of our land, is ok by him. Hes trying to spend the last few cents of his "political capital". By the way, I do believe that his next move will be to recruit foreigners into the U.S. military with promises of citizenship and an education paid for by........yes you know who, the American working taxpayer. You can bet he won't be reading their mail. Just you wait and see........ and any American who complains about it will be, well you know, if you're not with Bush, you're with the terrorists.
2007-01-06 17:47:25 · answer #5 · answered by galacticsleigh 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
For the same reasons he is listening to our phone calls, reading our e-mails, looking at our bank statements, he thinks we are all terrorists. He's starting to remind me of Nixon with his paranoia.
2007-01-06 22:03:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in the Bible, this is all a set up for the anti-Christ. Read the entire book of Revelation. But for my personal opinion, its an federal offense to go in people mail, so think its wrong for Bush to even think of something like that. But he hasn't done nothing still he been in office but make things more crazy.
2007-01-06 17:28:11 · answer #7 · answered by tbird1607 1 · 4⤊ 3⤋
He's doing it so he can steal people's Christmas money. My Parents sent me $50.00 for Christmas but the envelope was tampered with and the money was missing. Theory has it that Bush is using the money to support his cocaine habit.
2007-01-06 17:55:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Please read the signing statement itself. The mainstream media accounts tend to be inaccurate. As I read it, Bush says that the govt reserves the right to open mail if it is within existing law or if lives are at stake. I can live with that. If the govt opened mail in violation of the constitution, any information from that action would not be allowed in court. I think a lot of people are getting very excited over very little.
2007-01-06 17:22:15 · answer #9 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 3⤊ 6⤋
bush has been deciding what laws he will obey since he became president. if he doesn't want to obey the law, he write a signing statementt saying he doesn't have to obey the law. he claims he can do whatever he wants because we are at war and he has war time powers that he decides he has.
hitler had the same ideas and look what happened to the world then.
2007-01-06 17:22:55 · answer #10 · answered by de bossy one 6 · 7⤊ 2⤋