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- tvanwyk, on 03/06/2008, -0/+62''We are committed to ensuring that we not only get this right, but maintain the vital trust of the American people.''
"Maintain"!? Surely that would imply that trust already exists between the FBI and the American people. - ...---..., on 03/06/2008, -0/+35Yeah... the government wouldn't abuse the power of warrantless wiretapping or national security letters without any oversight. Right... we should just trust the government with these broad powers and just believe that they won't use it for political reasons, or retribution, or blackmail... And - we're supposed to THANK the telecoms for ginving the government unfettered access to our private information.
What have we become? - moneyswears, on 03/06/2008, -1/+32Orwell, you son of a bitch.
- VaporBro, on 03/06/2008, -3/+29I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!
- Leomarth, on 03/06/2008, -2/+23Yeah, you probably will. And so will everyone else.
- Leomarth, on 03/06/2008, -0/+19I hope this isn't a surprise to anyone. Government philosophy is that your life is theirs. As long as you are left with the perception that you still maintain control, that's all that's needed.
- Curlz31, on 03/06/2008, -1/+14Mueller: Ok, Ok.....so we illegally got thousands of people's internet records and used them to blackmail people into saying they were terrorists planning to blow up the Statue of Liberty, then when they refused to confess, we shipped them to gitmo where they were held for 3 years without trial. It was accident!!! I swear!!!! U guys still trust us right?
- paganmonkeyboy, on 03/06/2008, -1/+14"Everything you download, every email, every telephone call, every credit card transaction, and every website you visit is now being tracked by the government. Welcome to the New World Order."
You make this sound like a problem, comrade. What are you hiding ? - Groovydoo, on 03/06/2008, -0/+12And people Digg me down when I say that George Bush has made America a Fascist state:
Secret Prisons? Check
Torture? Check
Widespread government surveillance of its citizens? Check
Habeas Corpus suspended indefinitely despite no declaration of war? Check
Royal families? Check (Must be a Bush or a Clinton to be President) - Intercon, on 03/06/2008, -2/+14Everything you download, every email, every telephone call, every credit card transaction, and every website you visit is now being tracked by the government. Welcome to the New World Order.
- Dumbledorito, on 03/06/2008, -0/+11The really sad thing is that our spy agencies were practically unfettered before. FISA had retroactive 72 hour authorizations for anything they wanted to snoop.
The ***** just don't want there to be even a CLASSIFIED paper trail. And to the Bush supporters out there: If you support this violation of our rights, keep in mind that a Democrat will have this power someday. Mull that one over before you start thumping your chest about "turrists hatin' our freedums" and you just might see why the rest of us have thought thiswas a bad idea since day one. - Railz, on 03/06/2008, -0/+10Orwell's law
- invasi0n, on 03/06/2008, -1/+9FBI + CIA = US real president.
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -2/+10And thanks to the "no more rubber stamp congress" I donated 3,000$ to through 4 different campaigns to ensure a democratic take over in 2006. How much have you pathetic Democrats accomplished?!
Our system of check and balances is broken. Nancy Pelosi I will never live down voting for you and writing checks to you. And that goes for the traitor Jim Webb that voted YES to increase the FBI powers to spy on Americans. - Leomarth, on 03/06/2008, -0/+7Will writing letters to your Congressman do anything? I did that for years, and I got form letters back. Will asking the very organization doing this to change it's ways... change anything? It's like asking the Mafia to police itself.
- jdaniel284, on 03/06/2008, -0/+7George Bush, along with the entire Republican and Democratic establishment.
- Arcueid01, on 03/06/2008, -0/+7Guys this isn't surprising! What do you think was going to happen. This is exactly why we shouldn't give the Telecoms immunity. Nerp.
- david76, on 03/06/2008, -0/+7This is exactly why you don't give blanket power to a government agency like the FBI without judicial oversight. End of story.
- Leomarth, on 03/06/2008, -0/+7Can you get me a passport? This is a country I have not heard of.
- lostarchitect, on 03/06/2008, -0/+6well, there's a surprise.
- justiceape, on 03/06/2008, -0/+6Uh, it's been going on for a few years now. Rule 1. When they announce something publicly, they've already been doing it for years.
- EarlOfLade, on 03/06/2008, -0/+6I'm sorry, but I am not used to it. Where I come from, the government fear the people, not the other way around.
- eLuminx, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5The thing that bothers me is that there is never any retribution to these agencies. I mean nothing at all, they can fess up any of their crimes, they can probably even get away with saying they had a hand in 9/11 and I'm almost sure that they wont even get a slap on the wrist. This is really insane, the way things are going, they don't show a prosper future for anyone.
- Leomarth, on 03/06/2008, -2/+7I'm sorry, is that the Tri-Lat NWO? The Jewish Banker NWO? The Freemason NWO? I always get my NWO's mixed up. About the only one I don't is the wrestling one; unlike the others, mostly everyone knows that one is fake.
- psion01, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5So ... what? We're just supposed to overlook this sort of thing? Is that your point? If so, WHEN are we supposed to sit up and say, "Gee ... this is going too far"?
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5It's the American Peoples fault for blindly voting (or not voting) for whoever the media tells them to, accepting possibly corrupt electronic voting, and failing to hold their repesentatives accountable.
- MellerTime, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5Or Republicans + Democrats = 0. It's one of those funny math laws that work both ways...
- inchrnt, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4I have a crazy theory that BushCo was using all this privacy intrusion to spy on republicans (among other things) and keep them in check. Those that didn't comply were "outed."
I told you it was crazy. - aimhelix, on 03/06/2008, -1/+5Plain unacceptable. Sad really. I'm not sure what's more dangerous - the FBI or the "people" they are trying to "protect" us from....
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -2/+6How's that website you have been working on going?
- bacon_skoda, on 03/06/2008, -3/+7you forgot about the SuperDiggers.
- Leomarth, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4Ah. Ok, so who has whose hand up their ass? Do the Tri-Lats have their hand up the ass of the Jewish bankers? Do they have their hand up the Freemasons ass? And whose hand is up the Bildebergers ass? Could you perchance diagram the whole hand-ass relationship between these groups for me please? Maybe it'll be less confusing for me next time.
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4And the next president and congress won't be any better.
- oldgal, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4or they retire and get a medal of freedom award
- Gazoo2001, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3Letting even small liberties erode away leads to the death of a thousand cuts....or it's a slippery slope....plenty of metaphors apply. Or try this one, from Niemoller:
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came... - wissler, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cointelpro
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3Buried. Don't talk bad about Dr. Paul!
- ghuytro, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3Someone's been watching to many anal fisting movies!!
- MellerTime, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3I've done it for years and haven't gotten squat back. Count yourself lucky...
- Gazoo2001, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3VaporBro is quoting the character Howard Beale from the movie Network. See for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-HBsF08&feature ... - neognostic, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2I've received responses back from Congressman and Senators, ask specific questions and you do get specific answers. I know the aides are responding, but it is at least being read. I find a much better response from local officials, I've had road stripes repainted, holes fixed, trees removed, signs repaired/removed etc.
- mranderson86, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2I don't think so bubba....here watch some American Gladiator.
- Leomarth, on 03/06/2008, -3/+5Almost any story about poverty or medicine. People scream for government to fix these things because government is good, good, good.
- inchrnt, on 03/06/2008, -2/+4where is that "government is good, good, good" story you refer to? I haven't seen one of those in a long, long, long time.
- masterm1nd, on 03/06/2008, -2/+4Government is bad bad bad but we want more more more!
- oldgal, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2you forgot the detention camps being built - project endgame - google it
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -3/+5Thank god the NYT is merely relaying an AP story, otherwise I'd have to question the credibility of this. That being said, this sort of stuff has been happening since the days of Hoover, however thanks to the public's distrust of the Patriot Act, reports of such abuses are finally seeing the light of day.
- Benjaphil, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2Believe it or not, you have to actually get out there and protest. Your brothers and sisters are out there on the front lines already. If you see something you don't like, bitching about it on the internet only serves a venting purpose. Well, it shows other people that they are not alone, but really, the internet is not reality. Actions are reality.
take it up a notch America! Take your country back before your country takes mine. (Canada)
i mean, we already share our military for "civil" purposes. AKA to quell your protests, and eventually ours.
Not that i honestly feel peaceful protest is going to solve this problem, but you have to try.
Make your presence felt, not just known. - oldgal, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1us for voting the folks into office who support this stuff
- Leomarth, on 03/06/2008, -1/+2I guarantee you Digg isn't populated exclusively by Libertarians, or even libertarians.
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