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Mount Airy, MD | Good Private industries that can provide assist the government in national security matters need some kind of cover from lawsuits or else they won't be bothered to cooperate with the government when their help is needed.
Has the EFF or anyone actually proved that our rights were abused or are they still just blowing smoke?
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kudos:5 | said by pnh102:Private industries that can provide assist the government in national security matters need some kind of cover from lawsuits or else they won't be bothered to cooperate with the government when their help is needed. No harm was done to any US citizens. The EFF & ACLU are on a witch hunt and are just looking to punish monetarily AT&T & Verizon in order to earn fees for their organizations. Call it the "Full employment for class action lawyers" lawsuit.
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no ones, as you say, blowing smoke. I decided not to vote for obama, after hillary dropped out, then obama voted to give full immunity to the telecoms for illegal wiretapping, before that at two or more of his BS speeches, he said he would never give immunity to the telecoms for illegal wiretapping. |
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said by Linklist:No harm was done to any US citizens. BULLSHIT. Harm is done to EVERY US citizen EVERY time a right is violated. How many rights are you willing to give away before you don't have any left? My answer is none, and so I have been harmed. |
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Mount Airy, MD | said by mlundin: Harm is done to EVERY US citizen EVERY time a right is violated. How has harm been done to you personally?
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| said by pnh102:How has harm been done to you personally? are you actually curious about how he was personally harmed, or do you just not care about the constitution? |
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said by pnh102:Has the EFF or anyone actually proved that our rights were abused or are they still just blowing smoke? Congress voted for telecom immunity BECAUSE IT HAPPENED. There would be no need for telecom immunity if EFF just made it up.
EFF is 100% right here. The US Gov't exceeded its rights under the Constitution, infringing on the rights of the people guaranteed in the Constitution. To provide immunity, the government can't simply make unconstitutional law and call it "good," it has to change the constitution itself.
Was I harmed individually? No, but since when is that a criteria? We The People were harmed, collectively, by a government which exceeded its bounds.
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Land O Lakes, FL | reply to mlundin
Would that apply to the rights of 401k holders whose 401k's included bonds with GM & Chrysler? Savings and investment plans further decimated by Obama contrary to standing US law, essentially denying due process and equal protection to the evil investors in order to payback the UAW.
Clearly a violation of their due process and equal protection rights.
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Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. |
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Mount Airy, MD | reply to nasadude
said by nasadude:are you actually curious about how he was personally harmed, or do you just not care about the constitution? Yes. That is why I asked the question.
You can't credibly claim your rights were violated without them actually being violated.
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Mount Airy, MD | reply to funchords
said by funchords:EFF is 100% right here. The US Gov't exceeded its rights under the Constitution, infringing on the rights of the people guaranteed in the Constitution. To provide immunity, the government can't simply make unconstitutional law and call it "good," it has to change the constitution itself. That's all fine and dandy, but again, can you provide any evidence that the US government broadly and systematically violated the rights of the American people with regard to telephone call log monitoring?
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"No harm was done to any US citizens."
Who knows. After all, who watches the watchers? ...Or have you never considered that 
I was not the least bit surprised when Obama "flip flopped" on this issue. When he first said he was against it, he was either completely ignorant of what was really going on, or didn't care and just made an empty promise anyway.
As far as those organizations being on a "witch hunt" - that's a nice way to prop up your obvious dislike for them, which should not be the issue here. Regardless of your opinion of these organizations, there is a very valid point being made. If you disagree, then let's hear some debate of substance instead of conceited opinion. |
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Albany, CA | reply to pnh102
said by pnh102:That's all fine and dandy, but again, can you provide any evidence that the US government broadly and systematically violated the rights of the American people with regard to telephone call log monitoring? I believe that's exactly what these court cases are all about. Remember that courts not only decide punishment for individuals who commit crimes, they also decide whether a crime was committed in the first place.
The Bush/Obama administrations are trying to subvert the second of the two court functions I mentioned above. |
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said by pnh102:Private industries that can provide assist the government in national security matters need some kind of cover from lawsuits or else they won't be bothered to cooperate with the government when their help is needed. .... they already have cover from lawsuits - it's called "following the law". Qwest declined to illegally wiretap their customers at the request of the government and they aren't being sued. They followed the law.
My understanding is that some amount of surveillance could have been done within the law, but the administration at the time didn't want to be bothered with those pesky laws (and that rag, the constitution). They were found out and the companies that didn't follow the law are being sued.
the only reason the lawsuits were thrown out is because congress retroactively changed the law to make the previous unlawful behaviour lawful.
Isn't it great when private industries own congress? |
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said by pnh102:said by nasadude:are you actually curious about how he was personally harmed, or do you just not care about the constitution? Yes. That is why I asked the question. You can't credibly claim your rights were violated without them actually being violated. It's a baited question, any answer would be related to telecommunications or internet or similar. Those things are all priviledges...
Nice try at the set and spike by you two.
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Brewster, WA | reply to amungus
said by amungus:"No harm was done to any US citizens." Who knows. After all, who watches the watchers? ...Or have you never considered that Those that are in support of these claims and lawsuits being dismissed will fall back on legal answers that essentially make any national spying method or program not exist. You're suppose to be a good sheep and pretend you don't know that there are pieces of hardware that exist that make this claimed activity pretty simple. 
Then when the argument changes direction it will be pointed out only criminals and terrorists have anything to hide so get over yourself.
What you probably won't see them pointing out right now is the fact that these things are being dismissed because there is a law on the books that negates their case. It's easier to wave their hatred soaked political flag that points out they know more than you do. The perpetual troll that sees too much as being real but likes new names.
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Brewster, WA | reply to pnh102
said by pnh102:Private industries that can provide assist the government in national security matters need some kind of cover from lawsuits or else they won't be bothered to cooperate with the government when their help is needed. So it's lawsuits and money and not the rule of law that will make them cooperate. They'll willingly break the law and not help the government?
If the government is following the law when wanting information from a business they are not asking for this info, they are telling them what they are going to have handed over to them.
So shall we go back to the spring and early summer of the year 2001 and reveal what was going on or has that time in history been given magical immunity? You're arguing against something as if it didn't exist because you're holding it in your hands behind your back where nobody can see it...
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said by funchords:Congress voted for telecom immunity BECAUSE IT HAPPENED. There would be no need for telecom immunity if EFF just made it up. I'm sorry, we must inject some reality here.
The EFF, ACLU, and the like have lawyers who will file lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit, and will appeal and appeal and appeal and appeal, until hell freezes over, on this issue and ones like it.
It DOES NOT MATTER what really happened.
What matters is that these businesses are being significantly harmed by the actions in the courts, whether or not they eventually "lose" or "win".
Congress, the Bush administration, and now the Obama administration, have all concluded that this is not in their or our best interest.
Thus the so-called "immunity" legislation. |
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Exactly right... Perhaps some physical harm would have come to you or I or our families had these wiretaps not been done. I would find it very hard to believe that NO terrorist plots were not uncovered and dealt with. |
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One other reality check:
No laws were broken by the telcom companies' actions. Stop making things up by continuing to bleat "Laws were broken!" They weren't.
The lawsuits are civil lawsuits claimng harm to individuals or groups of individuals. There has never been a hint of criminal prosecutions from the Justice Department of either administration, or anyone else with the power to bring a criminal action. |
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