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| Re: And more freedom disappears As an American Citizen who had his rights violated, Kevin Martin is now culpable for legal action against me. | |
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| Re: And more freedom disappears said by KevinMartin :
As an American Citizen who had his rights violated, Kevin Martin is now culpable for legal action against me.
And you know you were wiretapped how?? Were you arrested for terrorism or spying?
NO?? Then your rights weren't violated.
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| So, what are your views on the recent statement by Jack Goldsmith, whose job it was to polish the administrations wiretapping turd and somehow make it palatable, in a legal sense? Seems that worthy has pretty well damned the whole program and the process and motivations behind it.
This old saw of "Do you know anyone harmed/were you harmed by " is a false argument. In a healthy democracy, where the body politic is engaged, active and aware, questions and dismay over these actions are vital. It would be far more worrisome if people were not outraged.
You sir, have much better things to do with your life then being a knee-jerk apologist, without portfolio, for this sort of stuff. Assuming you do not, in fact, hold a portfolio. Of course, that assumption has been the source of no small amount of comment and debate in these parts. | |
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| Re: And more freedom disappears said by TScheisskopf :So, what are your views on the recent statement by Jack Goldsmith, whose job it was to polish the administrations wiretapping turd and somehow make it palatable, in a legal sense? Seems that worthy has pretty well damned the whole program and the process and motivations behind it. This old saw of "Do you know anyone harmed/were you harmed by " is a false argument. In a healthy democracy, where the body politic is engaged, active and aware, questions and dismay over these actions are vital. It would be far more worrisome if people were not outraged. You sir, have much better things to do with your life then being a knee-jerk apologist, without portfolio, for this sort of stuff. Assuming you do not, in fact, hold a portfolio. Of course, that assumption has been the source of no small amount of comment and debate in these parts. Debate away. I get a small measure of amusement from those who seek to divine some hidden motives and affiliations from my opinions. It says more about the paranoia of some posters than about my motives.
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| Re: And more freedom disappears It's not about paranoia but preserving liberty. In a free society everyone has to stand up for the rights of the one person who had their's violated. Remember that the Constitution does not grant us our rights because we have them no matter what. The Constitution is just a contract between the people and the government and it has been breached by warrantless wiretapping. | |
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| Re: And more freedom disappears Whatever.....I feel better that are goverment is being proactive and watching /listening to potential threats to our country.
Freedom? You have freedom everyday. The only people bothered by this are people who have something to hide. Get over it! | |
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| Re: And more freedom disappears said by govspy :
Whatever.....I feel better that are goverment is being proactive and watching /listening to potential threats to our country.
Freedom? You have freedom everyday. The only people bothered by this are people who have something to hide. Get over it!
Wow, another FauxNews droid is in our midst...Hey, what do you think of Britney's latest dilemma? Or how about the latest in the Aruba chick's disappearance? And hey, what do you think of all those nukes in Iran pointed right toward New York? We better go get 'em before they get us here, right?
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| Re: And more freedom disappears said by ackman :said by govspy :
Whatever.....I feel better that are goverment is being proactive and watching /listening to potential threats to our country.
Freedom? You have freedom everyday. The only people bothered by this are people who have something to hide. Get over it!
Wow, another FauxNews droid is in our midst...Hey, what do you think of Britney's latest dilemma? Or how about the latest in the Aruba chick's disappearance? And hey, what do you think of all those nukes in Iran pointed right toward New York? We better go get 'em before they get us here, right? We have to protect those who will be wrongly accused, and who may not have a way to challenge the accusations. Our privacy needs to be respected
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| All your postings show the same underlying theme. You are scared. You are afraid of the evil muslims, and the 'terrist' who are trying to kill you. You support the administration and the megacorps, because, you (falsely) believe they will 'protect you'. Guess what, they won't. Power corrupts, that human nature. The gestapo tactics of the current administration are proof of that.
The solution, of course, is to stand by the constitution. We are GUARANTEED certain rights, and have other rights by proxy. I WANT the right to privacy. I DON'T want the police to keep track of where I go, when I go. They have no RIGHT to that information, but you are so scared, you are willing to give up 200+ years of a working system, just to feel 'safe'.
If a terrorist WANTS to kill people, they will. There IS NO SOLUTION for people who are willing to kill themselves for a cause. The BIGGEST CAUSE of human suffering is of course, the fallacy of religion. The sooner we erase religion from the human consciousness, the better off we will all be.
You hide behind your support of the current regime, but by doing so, you give up all that made this country great. It's amusing to read you defend the actions of an administration which has made the US the most hated country on the planet. It's amusing to see you support the megacorps which are outsourcing our jobs to slave labor in china and india. You don't have a clue about the human condition, and what it means to be a human being. You are a mindless drone supporting false beliefs in the hope that you will be 'safe'.
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| Re: And more freedom disappears said by karlmarx : The BIGGEST CAUSE of human suffering is of course, the fallacy of religion. The sooner we erase religion from the human consciousness, the better off we will all be. Spoken like a True Communist...whatever happened to your beloved Constitution that you so highly tout. I believe it states we also have freedom of religion. Your rights END where MINE begin. So please take your communist crap back to China and quite trying to pollute our Country with your ideologies... | |
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| "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."
Sound familiar? It should, it's the 4th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and it supersedes ALL statutory law. It is "the supreme law of the land".
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| said by TKJunkMail :said by KevinMartin :
As an American Citizen who had his rights violated, Kevin Martin is now culpable for legal action against me.
And you know you were wiretapped how?? Were you arrested for terrorism or spying? NO?? Then your rights weren't violated. Well that's just it isn't it? We'll never know who was tapped and who was not. You just have to trust the government to be telling the truth and that no harm was done to anyone.
Our government was founded on the principle of least trust. Transparency, checks and balances, and accountability were all sacred to the Founding Fathers, and the current government has decided that those principles conflict with keeping us safe.
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1 edit | said by TKJunkMail :said by KevinMartin :
As an American Citizen who had his rights violated, Kevin Martin is now culpable for legal action against me.
And you know you were wiretapped how?? Were you arrested for terrorism or spying? NO?? Then your rights weren't violated. It never ceases to amaze me how much of a shill you are. s there a reason you changed your forum Identity yet again TKJunkmail?
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| Exactly - you'll know "how?" - you wont! They will cite "national security" as a reason for you to never know. I hope they investigate you some day and give you cause to complain - because you wont be able to. In space no one can hear you scream, ditto for Guantanamo. | |
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| said by rudnicke :"We wouldn't want to sacrifice national security for the sake of privacy" Someone should remember that line. It's all downhill from here. This means the bad guys have won. They hat our freedom, our western way of life. They have succeeded in destroying what made this country what it was. Sad thing is, our govt doesn't see it that way.  | |
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| Re: And more freedom disappears said by tc1uscg :This means the bad guys have won. They hat our freedom, our western way of life. The sooner you get that out of your head the better you will be. They don't hate your freedom nor your western way of life. What they despise is you meddling in their affairs. Please, don't cry foul should some Iraqis decide to avenge their country for what you have done to them. | |
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| Re: And more freedom disappears According to 1/3 of my family in Saudi it is our western life style that they hate. They believe that our ways are contrary to Gods wishes and that we as a nation should renounce the path we are on and if we do not we should be destroyed. Now if I was to go there and preach my beliefs,they would feel bad about me be killed, but they would not stop them from killing me. The divide between us and Arab world is not going to be resolved in our life time and if you do not want to get on board with them you better be prepared to meddle. | |
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1 edit | said by Doci :said by tc1uscg :This means the bad guys have won. They hat our freedom, our western way of life. The sooner you get that out of your head the better you will be. They don't hate your freedom nor your western way of life. What they despise is you meddling in their affairs. Please, don't cry foul should some Iraqis decide to avenge their country for what you have done to them. That is the stupidest thing I read all week..of course they hate our way of life..they hate EVERYTHING about us..Remember what they found in the wreckage of the "Brothers Huessin"s" hideout? ERVERTHING out lawed by the taliban..they are hippoctrits they think their way of life is the only way and death to those who disagree we should arm ourselves here in the US and meet any any suspicious activity with a 9 mil tunnel through the skull
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More BUSHit.. Rumsfeld, Gonzales,Wolfowitz , how many dummies have to go before you recognize the pattern of tripe they have been serving? | |
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| Indictment While the Telcos may be granted immunity, could this some day lead to Mr. Martin's indictment? IF he has knowledge that the Telcos co-operated with the government and violated the constitution, could his refusal to move forward be considered collaboration? If he has knowledge that the government violated the law isn't his duty to move forward?
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| Re: Indictment said by lesopp :Following that same thought process, shouldn't the NSA employees, the CIA employees, the foreign intelligence service employees that shared this information also be indicted and the captured bad guys be released? Are you implying that Chairman Martin is a member of the intelligence community? | |
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| Re: Indictment said by richdelb :said by lesopp :Following that same thought process, shouldn't the NSA employees, the CIA employees, the foreign intelligence service employees that shared this information also be indicted and the captured bad guys be released? Are you implying that Chairman Martin is a member of the intelligence community? Chairman Martin has no association with intelligence of any kind whatsoever... | |
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| I Hope the Next Administration Hangs These Guys My first cousin by marriage was born in the Manzinar detention center. His family was a loyal Japanese-American family which was detained there simply because the Western Military Commander for California had decided that these individuals posed a threat. The Government clammed up and claimed national secrecy for the justification of the internment program. That was the 1940s and Pearl Harbor had just been bombed. Pearl Harbor was my parents "9-11."
Fast forward to the 1980s when the stuff got disclassified and we discovered that they didn't have anything. They violated civil rights, detained innocent people, and were operating with no facts tying these individuals to the Empire of Japan other than their race.
There were a number of court decisions slamming the war time precedent, the players that were still alive duly apologized, but apparently no lesson was learned.
In routine criminal prosecutions, I'm hearing the prosecutors claim national security and it is like no one will review the claims.
Someone once said that each generation has to relearn the mistakes of the past. This seems to be a classic example. My concern is that if the abuses of this administration are not addressed soon, then the folks like ATT, etc. will take the message that it is better to illegally cooperate now and send an apology note (sans check) 50 years from now. | |
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The Energy and Commerce Committee also asked AT&T, Verizon Communications and Qwest Communications International on Tuesday to describe how U.S. government agencies sought to obtain information about customer telephone and Internet use.
That still seems kind of toothless. This article made Congress sound more threatening, House committee calls for further investigation into telecom wiretapping, but I'm guessing that while Congress is seeking culpability on the part of the US government agencies, it's not really seeking culpability on the part of the Telcos. | |
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I hate the direction this country is headed. State law is all but null and void. Our constitution is being torn to shreds because "times are changing." Bull. The fundamentals that used to write the constitution are still relevant today. This administration and the mockery they have made of our civil rights makes me sick to my stomach, literally.
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| Re: Oh really said by RichNice :Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security. Benjamin Franklin "The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact."
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| Re: Oh really Sorry, I must have missed the part in the Bill of Rights that says that it was optional. Unless you are arguing that the Constitution no longer is valid, it must be followed. Oh, and BTW, Jackson wrote that in a DISSENTING opinion, which means the majority of the court at the time did not side with him.
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| Re: One more thing said by mdd :The real criminals here are not the telcos, it is the agents in the government who COMPELLED them to comply with an illegal wiretapping program. Save most of your indignation for them. -R I'm sure that AT&T had to have their arm twisted on this one. They used this to get their BellSouth meger approved on the quick. | |
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| said by mdd :The real criminals here are not the telcos, it is the agents in the government who COMPELLED them to comply with an illegal wiretapping program. Save most of your indignation for them. -R Horseshit! The Telcos had a fiduciary duty to protect their customers from the illegal, unwarranted requests and actions of the White House. It is clear that one cannot be lawfully compelled to break the law. And further, in the instance of illegal wiretapping and wholesale eavesdropping on voice telecommunications, internet traffic/e-mail and standard mail, the administration operated well beyond the constraints of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the authority granted the Executive thereby. In fact, they operated outside the bounds of all law in the United States of America. The Telcos, and all others, who cooperated with the megalomaniacal dementia manifested in the White House are legally liable for their actions. This point was decided at Nurhenburg. | |
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Gun Control is proactive. It Bans the guns so potential killers cannot kill people with guns.
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