thinkprogress.org — Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) used the foiled terror attempts in London to call for greater domestic spying here in the United States. Lieberman also said we should place spying cameras in major cities throughout the U.S.
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aukxsonaJul 2, 2007
Ya know there is a REALLY funny story that happened to my husband related to that. You see we lived in CT and didn't know Mr. Liberman our Senator was Jewish, and my husband EVER TACTFUL with words said something only a NAZI would understand to his office immediately after the Patriot Act was signed. I was surprised to find some nice individuals in a van next to my house for about a week. Anyway, yes I believe it is possible to act like one, although it isn't very polite to point it out.
frostekJul 2, 2007
What vast network? That implies all of this supposed 5 million cameras all all linked together, which they aren't. Some shopkeeper or a pub with a camera watching their own premises hardly should count towards that figure.
jebblackJul 2, 2007
The terrorists are coming! Stop, Drop & Roll! lmao Actually, the day terrorists do attack america, people will demand the borders to be secured and that will not happen because the globalists want to have their cake and eat it too! You can't have terrorism and open borders, or can you? wtf?
courtesyflushJul 2, 2007
I don't really give a f**k about idiots such as yourself who mind when violent criminals are caught.You can cry all you want, whiner.........that doesn't change the inarguable fact that you don't have the right to walk down the street and make everyone turn their heads and give you privacy to which you are NOT entitled.The government is NOT taking your liberties away.......you don't have right to privacy in a public place and you never will.Now digg this down as if it makes a bit of difference.
thx1979Jul 3, 2007
I thought the compromise they worked out was simply putting the NSA in the phone companies...
thx1979Jul 3, 2007
I think most reasonable people accept and appreciate the rights of private citizens and businesses to maintain appropriate surveillance in order to protect themselves. You get robbed: you give the video to the police. It works, as you have so shrewdly acknowledged. The problem is when the government starts investigating my life and gets way up in my ass because I protest Globalization and Globalist influence over my country's policies, for example. I am consistently amazed by how many people get through law school without realizing these simple points: you don't have a reasonable expectation (right to) privacy in a public place (you can be photographed, observed), but you do have the right to be free from the machinations of a tyrannical government that scans your face biometrically, analyzes your gait alorithmically, traces and records your movements, and compares all the data to a list of suspected thought-criminals generated by people like CourtesyFlush. Why are you so angry, anyway? I thought you guys were tsupposed to be the blissfully ignorant ones...
craniumJul 4, 2007
That's utter BS. The rights of the Federal government are enumerated in the constitution, the rest are reserved for the states and the poeple. Nowhere in the constitution is the federal government granted the power to constantly monitor the outdoor activities of the populace.
craniumJul 4, 2007
That you can even phrase the question that way means you don't understand the constitution. You're shifting the burden of proof. The question, as properly asked, is "Where in the constitution is the federal government granted the power to constantly conduct serveillance on all americans?"