what does the Bush Admin's want to tap into your phone lines tell us?

Question

i would like to hear your opinions. I, for one, find it ridiculous. intellects only please lol

Answer 1

Were you protesting Clinton doing even worse.I use to listen to Art Bell till they tried to silence him for talking about their crimes.I mean in those days it was only the"Vast Right Wing" they were spying on so that was o.k huh.Art was the only one talking about the Eschelon/Carnivore system then his son was molested by a teacher,since the Clinton's were filthy they could have been trying to silence Art.
Did you hear this Wednesday night show they talked about how Hillary was signing paperwork on U.F.O's when she was First Lady.

Answer 2

The Bush administration doesn't want to tap into 'your' phone lines. They want to tap into phone lines of known or suspected terrorists. That's what they say. I have yet to hear the administration say anything about tapping into phone lines of everyday people. I only hear that from people who hate Bush just because he's Bush. Their claims are not backed by any evidence...just a bunch of mindless blabber (from the Left, the Right, and the Middle). Even if they did tap into mine, I wouldn't care. I have nothing to hide. I'll tell ya what you want to know, what you need to know, and what you should know...even if you don't want to know it..... :-). It makes me wonder if all those people harping about how wrong it is even know that the government couldn't give two hoots about Aunt Peg's hip surgery or cousin Bill's case of the clap. C'mon!

Answer 3

It tells me we are all suspects. It might be fun to make their job more interesting by speaking in a brand new language. Every cell phone network should create their own. A great way to preserve our privacy. Emails could also be written in this language. Obviously, I'm not an intellectual.

Although I haven't noticed any difference since I've lost my privacy in many more ways than just the telephone, I know it is true and find it to be like living in a different place.

Answer 4

You find it ridiculous that Amendment IV clearly does not forbid "all" searches, merely "unreasonable" searches without warrants?

You find it ridiculous that Amendment V contains a clearly noted exception?

You find it ridiculous that Article I Section 9 (second paragraph) clearly defines the writ of habeas corpus as a "privilege" which can be suspended under certain circumstances?



It's a good thing then that Abraham Lincoln isn't President today as a lot of Y/A users would be behind bars or banished to Iran.

Over 30,000 US citizens were arrested (not including Confederate spies) held with no charges against them or tried in Military tribunals. A Missouri congressman was arrested in the dead of night, sans warrant, by a provost and tried and convicted in a tribunal. Only a public uproar kept him from prison but Lincoln banished him to the Confederacy none-the-less.

If he had the capabilities of our current government at his disposal that 30,000 would turn into millions. Lincoln didn't pussyfoot around the subject of, in his view, preserving the Union. Nor did he fail to use the tools found in the Constitution, put there by the Founders for extraordinary circumstances. He even shut down newspapers that were counter to his opinion.

Bear in mind the Union was under no threat of attack in this circumstance as the South wished only to peacefully excercise their right to leave a voluntary Union.


Would FDR have issued an order to arrest every Muslim on US Soil, whether citizen or alien, within weeks of September 11, 2001?

United States Executive Order 9066 was a presidential executive order issued during World War II by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, using his authority as Commander-in-Chief to exercise war powers to send ethnic groups to internment camps.

This order authorized U.S. armed forces commanders to declare areas of the United States as military areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded." It was eventually applied to one-third of the land area of the U.S. (mostly in the West) and was used against those with "Foreign Enemy Ancestry."

The order led to the Japanese American internment in which some 120,000 ethnic Japanese people were held in internment camps for the duration of the war. Of the Japanese interned, 62 percent were Nisei (American-born, second-generation Japanese American) or Sansei (third-generation Japanese American) and the rest were Issei (Japanese immigrants and resident aliens, first-generation Japanese American).




Do you believe Lincoln and FDR were great Presidents?





I propose our current President has done a lot of pussyfooting and indeed has been exceedingly light-handed in his dealings with civil liberties in what is truly an extraordinary circumstance.

Answer 5

They can't tap into your line without having some intel that you are helping the other side. For one, there's not enough manpower to do so, and it would be incredibly costly to tap everyone.

They think they are protecting us. In every war, there has been some sort of spying on folks who seem to be working the other side of the fence, reporting suspicious activity, etc. This is historical. We just have better technology now to do more spying on those who may seem to be spys planted amongst us.

I don't particularly agree with it, it does seem to hinder our rights, but I do understand why they do what they do.

Answer 6

Taps arent my bigest fear its the many other things attached to this bill that frighten me, like entering my home un-announced, uninvited, and without a search warrent.

Answer 7

I don't use the phone unless I absolutely have to. And only then, it's once a month for fewer than ten minutes. So I'm not worried about myself.

Answer 8

He doesn't want to tap into mine. He does however want to tap into some that appear suspicious, as in, contacting known terrorists and so forth. Which has my full support.

Answer 9

I don't know.

Perhaps for the same reason why the Clinton administration enacted Eschelon or why the Clinton administration gave the RIAA (not even a law enforcement agency) the right to enter your home without a warrant and seize your computer if they just THINK that you MAY have downloaded a song from the internet.

Answer 10

It both angers and disturbs me. It is but one symptom of the sickness that is spreading throughout this great country and her government.
What is even more unsettling is the fact that so many US citizens are either willingly ignorant or simply don't care that their constitutional rights are slowly but surely being stripped away.