...how do they feel about domestic spying, illegal telephone wiring, tracking your internet use, spending like a drunken sailor, more agencies to keep track of our doings, survaillience satellites that can track activity on the ground.
2007-08-24 03:42:32 · 21 answers · asked by amazed we've survived this l 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
sorry....illegal telephone wire taping
2007-08-24 07:26:11 · update #1
ScottB: ...and if they started to use it for something...?
2007-08-24 07:27:03 · update #2
cornbread...just read the news...Homeland Sec.just today announced a new agency to use some of this new techo capability.
2007-08-24 07:29:42 · update #3
Jacob W: sorry, I meant wire taping....as in wire taping w/o FISA.
2007-08-24 07:45:20 · update #4
It doesn't compute, does it?
2007-08-24 03:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by slykitty62 7 · 3⤊ 5⤋
And making a nationalized health system will be less government involvement?
Anyway - no I really don't care about the national security measures you are so afraid of because I know that law enforcement is already over burdened with the real criminals and are not going to waste their time investigating me since I am not involved in terrorism. Also I know from experience that some of these things that you are so afraid of have actually helped keep people safe.
2007-08-24 10:57:50 · answer #2 · answered by Hockeyfan 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Small government to conservatives means eliminating government services that they don't themselves use. They are selfish people who never think of others' needs. Conservatives could never spend enough on the military, because they love to intimidate others and get off on feeling aggressive and powerful. They believe that any dollar spent in America should wind up in some rich person's private bank account, rather be used for something beneficial to all Americans.
2007-08-24 11:10:29 · answer #3 · answered by Sam R. I. 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Can you please be a bit more specific? What domestic spying are you referring to? Do you consider surveillance spying?
Illegal telephone wiring? What is that?
Tracking Internet use- is this a new phenomena? Do you remember a tracking program called Echelon?
Spending - I agree there is way too much spending on domestic programs.
Agencies- What new agencies? Homeland Security? That was created by democrats in congress.
Surveillance Satellites or outdoor cameras do not bother me. They make me feel more secure.
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2007-08-24 10:53:53 · answer #4 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
They only advocate less government when it comes to corporations. They have no problem about invading the privacy of individuals. This has been going on since Reagan with Republicans. The war on drugs was just a scheme to invade our personal lives.
2007-08-24 10:51:13 · answer #5 · answered by beren 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
True conservatives are opposed to such activities... although the terms are now confused... liberals have stolen the term conservative... hence the term Neo-con... but liberals stole their name, liberal, from those who are now called libertarians... modern liberals are more accurately called socialists... so in the end, both the neo-conservatives and the liberals are socialists... conservatives are usually closer ideolgically to libertarians, but with the influx of neo-conservatism it is becoming confused...
So your premise is wrong... you said "Since cons advocate less gov't, and keeping gov't out of lives and wallets....", but that is speaking to Regan/Goldwater/Freedman conservatives, who share much of their ideology with classical liberals, or libertarians... who now no longer are represented well within the conservative movement... which is now dominated by neo-conservatives. Libertarians are opposed to all these things... and libertarians have been pushed out of the conservative movement...
2007-08-24 11:02:21 · answer #6 · answered by Schaufel 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
domestic spying is fine since many enemies are already behind our lines, and i don't make calls to friends in terrorist states or with terrorist links, so I'm not too worried about being wiretapped, or what they will hear if i am. and if the wiretap is illegal, the guy that broke the law should pay. strong national defense and security is not cheap, but its worth every penny. talk to Kennedy about proliferating bureaucracy- he's the king of pork, and now he has all the votes they need to pork it up all he wants. surveillance satellites? yeah, good idea, lets just end the strongest intelligence network on the planet because you are paranoid about seeing your house on google earth.
2007-08-24 10:55:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I'd say they were for all of those.
And- way to go on staying out of my wallet. Correct me if I'm wrong... but I think I'm helping to aid a war in Iraq which I don't believe in, through my taxes?
2007-08-24 11:31:27 · answer #8 · answered by Lily Iris 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I answered this yesterday.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArRQ1iepx6RWyePOTcj53tbty6IX?qid=20070823080856AASReeA&show=7#profile-info-e58273cb735811af5124519ccea6a3f0aa
I want government out of our lives, everything they touch is a mess, or do you think Social Security, Medicaid, FAA, HUD, GAO, FEMA, Border Patrol, Welfare, Health Care, are all working fine, and we should allow the government more access to our lives.
2007-08-24 10:53:20 · answer #9 · answered by libsticker 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Todays conservatives are not conservatives . They are a liberal mass of spending and support for the police state .
2007-08-24 10:49:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
If someone has nothing to hide, they need not worry about any spying, wiretapping, etc. War costs money and there's no way around that! I want my government to do whatever it must to insure the security of this nation. What's your problem with this?
2007-08-24 10:52:07 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋