--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 8/18/06 6:07:33 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > <snip> > > > No , not at all. Most people want the current NSA program in > > > place and it is still going on while it is appealed. > > > > > Wrong. A majority do NOT want warrantless wiretapping. > > _Poll: Most Americans Support NSA's Efforts_ > > (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2006/05/12/AR2006051200375_pf.html)
I gave MDixon a chance to present these facts himself or be exposed as a liar. Astonishingly, he preferred to be exposed as a liar. So be it: The court decision that is being appealed forbids the part of the NSA program that involves WARRANTLESS wiretapping. The poll MDixon cites does not mention WARRANTLESS wiretapping in its questions. It simply asks about approval of NSA's wiretapping. A majority approve of wiretapping. A majority, as measured by at least a half-dozen other polls that *do* ask about WARRENTLESS wiretapping, DISAPPROVE OF WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING. This is a crucial distinction, and MDixon knows it. There would be no court case if it weren't for WARRANTLESS wiretapping; that's what the court was asked to decide, whether WARRANTLESS wiretapping should be permitted. The court decided it should *not* be permitted, just as a majority of Americans think it should *not* be permitted. The Republicans--aided here, sadly, by MDixon--are deliberately obscuring this distinction. The "liberal" Washington Post failed to make this distinction in its poll questions, reporting the results of the poll as if WARRANTLESS wiretapping weren't even an issue, as if a majority approved of everything in the NSA program. So much for the Post being, in MDixon's words, "not friendly to the Bush administration." The attempted deceit--by the Republicans, the Post, and MDixon--is disgraceful and inexcusable. The Republicans are painting Democrats as opposing the NSA program *as a whole* and therefore weak on national security. But there is *no* Democrat running for office who opposes NSA wiretaps *as long as there is judicial oversight*, i.e., as long as the government is required to obtain a warrant. A majority of the American people, as I said and as MDixon falsely denied, are opposed to WARRANTLESS wiretapping. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
