[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 03:43:01AM -0700, Paul G. Allen wrote:
DJA wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
Yup. They're joining the ACLU. Two of my favorite organizations. (A list
that the '06 Congress, alas, is not on.)
Me too. My other list grew quite a bit longer last week with the
passing of the FISA bill: the list of impeachable traitors.
Including Obama. There seem to be few congress critters that have a clue
as to what their office is about and what the Constitution really says
(and if they do, they don't give a damn).
Let's try to understand *why* FISA supporters think it is a good idea. I'm not
saying it is a good idea, but, let's try to walk in their shoes..... Pretend
today is the day after Islamofascist extremists have just taken out an entire
US city with an atomic bomb.....
Would you feel the same way about FISA then as you do now?
cs
In two words: Hell yes!
Let's try to understand that the Constitution was not designed to
protect us from our enemies. It was designed to protect us from our own
government.
If the law (Constitution) provides us protection from unreasonable
search and seizure except when government officials think we're somehow
a threat, then what's the point of such a law.
The U.S.Constitution, and indeed this country was founded in the context
of its people having been abused by an increasingly repressive and
abusive government. Outside threats existed then as they do now. But
historically, people have been abused more by their own governments than
by invaders.
Contriving extreme future scenarios to justify present excesses is
nothing less than jingoism.
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Best Regards,
~DJA.
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