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1 edit | said by Woody79_00:This law is a violation of the 4th Amendment quoted for the truth.
its a plain invasion of privacy. Just because it was in search for terrorists doesn't mean that it somehow magically circumvents the constitution (which has more pull then ANY gov/state laws).
imo, what Bush did is just like we talk about here daily. They hacked into peoples phones conversations (and there is a FCC law against that (for the public users anyway, not sure if it extends to law enforcement or not [but if it does it would require a search warrant no doubt]).
If Bush had someone hack into your computer and steal your chat logs with all your friends and other personal info, o r what programs your using or if you have pirated software (in response to whoever mentioned piracy up there) to check for terrorist activity/or w/e, would you still just sit there and say its for the good of the USA?
i wont go into all the things Bush, and his administration, failed at.
Even if the Telcos were forced to, they could have said no and taken the consequences.
but no, they did it of their own free will. thats why i think they should get fined, no one has the inability to say no, they just didn't want to own up to the effects of the refusal because their business is more important to them then the privacy of their customers.
anyway as someone else said (to lazy to go looking for names atm xD) its not about what laws were broken.
fact of the matter is someone DOES have to answer for it though. cant really be Bush, he's out this year (though if somehow he could get impeached, he wouldn't get his ex-president check).
this bill is all about keeping ANYONE from taking fault for what he did, which, as was suggested, is not the way law works. you cant turn it off when you don't like whats happening. |
