Why have libs stopped their banal screeching about the surveillance of terrorist?
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Why? Maybe because they are afraid to speak out to loud this time. As we snoozed through the Clinton era, our lovable, sax-playing president was busy deep-sixing legal protections – often in the name of combating terrorism. He presided over a massive expansion of federal phone-tapping powers. Signing the 1996 Counter-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, our buddy Bill laid the groundwork for Ashcroft's schemes, eviscerating habeas corpus, one of the cornerstones of our judicial system, curtailing due process for immigrants, and creating special courts to try terrorists with secret evidence. Sound familiar? And under Clinton, reinvigorated Red Squads apparently spied on the anticorporate protesters who rocked the Seattle WTO conference.
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Americans are gullible, they are fed a constant barrage from the right wing that it is a good thing that they wire tap your phone or monitor your e-mails and then threaten them with the T word. So repuglicans being mentally diminished say I have nothing to hide and pass it off. Never mind that the constitution was written to provide safety to our civil liberties and is and has been eroded over the years. Soon they will mount cameras in you bed room so that they can monitor to see that you do not get to much of a kink on. But that will be alright as it will prevent terrorism. Some will believe that.
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I think a lot of conservatives think this is some kind of ultimate showdown between good and evil. I don't think they care at all about what anyone else thinks. They know they are right, and anyone who disagrees is evil. When they read your question they see you as being on the side of terrorists. That's how narrow-minded and short-sighted their view has become.
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Wow, very few answers to your question and they obviously have no idea who I am, or what I stand for or where I come from. But man have they an opinion.\n\n Is it not funny that some admit never hearing of me but have are willing to make a judgment.\n\nSounds like most of your liberal party to me, Never listen to the facts, never study the facts, never live the moments, but come out with opinions and views and ready to move on with regulation and legislation based on a total uneducated source. \n\nWOW!
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Finally someone said it...I completely agree, there is no need for them to come on to this section and say the things they do.... \n\nAlso i loved your response to our favourite resident loony... Good ol Loozy liz... : )
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Most certainly, these people are not exaggerating, they are telling bold faced lies.\n---\nReally?  A thumbs down for proclaiming that Democrats DO NOT support terrorism?  This country is so divided...
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First of all, it has nothing to do with religous leaders.  That makes no sense at all. So obviously you are a moron.  It has nothing to do with a "few" U.S. citizens typing on the internet.  It is catching people in this country who want to destroy it and communicate with terrorists and evil people like the ones who killed 3,000 people on 9/11. I don't understand who you mean by cowards.  It is the complete opposite of coward if you are on the offensive and try to stop violence by terrorists before it happens.  Democrats want to sit back and wait for something to happen before taking action.  That is a coward.  So again you make no sense. Our military does put there life on the line everyday to protect punks like you and this country.  Information they get from NSA wiretapping helps them do this and to stop terrorists from killing innocent Americans.  Maybe even someone close to you.  Would you want to keep your "liberty" or have your mom killed in a terrorist attack when it could have been stopped by wiretapping?  Freedom of thought?  Go ahead and think whatever you want!  Type it on the internet.  Talk about it on the phone.  No one cares!  The government doesn't care.  But if you are talking to al Qaeda then yes they will care and take your a** down!  And if it weren't for that "little protection" you so casually talk about when thousands of Americans have died for it, you would not have your liberty or freedom.
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They aren't understood; they are manipulated for political purposes. Currently, the Reps do it more...labeling liberalism as something so bad.
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Because liberals are not really what they say they are.  They speak of tolerance but they are the most intollerant of all who don't agree with them.  They are stupid
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I've wondered that myself. I guess it's better than saying, "We will let the terrorists destroy our way of life." It seems like someone is always trying to destroy our way of life. If its not one thing, its another. They just keep coming and coming. I guess it gets votes and allows politicians to have a way of life that most of the rest of us don't enjoy.
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Thank you for the intelligent question....\n\nIts very hard to take someone serious when they make sweeping, ignorant statements about a group of people.  \n\nThis debate will never gain ground as long as we have bigots screaming their politics's of hate and fear.  \n\nI agree its a problem.  And I don't think it is going away anytime soon.  I see it everyday here on the border.  But to attack these people just for sheer fun is just stupid.  Nothing will ever get resolved this way....
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come on liberals...youre running out of talking points!
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Because the truth always annoys and Conservatives react with anger when they are told the truth of their mistakes!\n\nIt's a shame that you have such anger problems and would actually take it out on your Family, Pets or anyone or anything else near you.\n\nYou see Liberals...this is why we must all get out and vote on November 7th and rid ourselves of these Family and Pet abusing Conservatives.
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id look past all that crap and opt for rights and freedoms before there taken away .forget the pc brigade as long as in your heart you can say your not racist say what you feel question our government point out how our boarders are open and your not happy about it in reality weve been conditioned .the problem is we are fed all this crap and people have the right idea on these matters yet for the wrong reasons .we are fed constant terror the general population bitch and moan about subjects and dont realise that nesesary rights and freedoms are being taken away as a result its called problem ,reaction,solution heres an example a man was sentenced for thought crimes last week he had planned dirty bomb attacks in the US , now this man had no funding and no way of carrying this out thought crimes? as you can imagine the reaction from the general population  ,surprise surprise the next day in the paper mi5 say theres 30 terror cells in the uk planning dirty bombs ?everyones like oh shit!! ,the next day blair in the paper pointing out the laws he wants to pass one being holding a terror suspect for 90 days with no charge  and no soliciitor (they can make people disapear )now thats there solution .these laws end up getting used against us .a man booed mr blair as he was going past in a car, 5 mins later the man was searched and his details were put on the terrorist suspect database or whatever bullshit name they give it ? we are being shafted world wide our governments are controlled by world banks (new world order,illuminati) the whole fabric of our society is based on lies and coruption.people need to stop relying on government as throughout history they have tryed to enslave the people .EVERYONE NEEDS TO ASK QUESTIONS they cant lock us all up for questioning our own government the people we suposedly put up there .this is so vast its quite hard to exsplain it goes very deep in substance and time .click on these two links:\n\npdf:the police state road map\nhttp://www.policestateplanning.com/\n\nterrorstorm:a history of government sponsored terror.\nhttp://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230&q=terrorstorm
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As a true patriot who recognises the gift of technology, language, democracy that england has given to the world since the start of the empire, I can say it breaks my hear to see my beloved country raped and poisoned by the untermenschen that swarms over our borders.To think of all the lives sacrificed in 2 world wars to defend our freedom against an enemy far superior in culture and intellect than the one that eats us from the inside out right now.When are the uneducated blinkered arrogant liberal left going to wake up and smell the coffee.?When england finally becomes an islamic state, do they think they will be spared the ravages of islam because they insist that council tax money is spent on building mosques and hiring solicitors and interpreters to get them welfare from the day they arrive?\nI want to fight this disease , but how , when our leaders are still brainwashign our children that christmas is wrong  and that the british empire was evil?\nGive our children and our future a chance , by stopping this political correct spin and let everyone know the truth so that even the liberals can see how blind and naive they are.
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That is a very good question! I have wondered that my self. Be careful now, you know their gonna get mad. I feel I must walk on eggshells around those Libs. But I don't.
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The Patriot Act did not create any new laws, only consolidated existing ones, so terrorism has nothing to do with it.  The government, with reasonable premises and a sometimes a court order, can pull IMs and phone logs for a number of reasons, just being that they believe you or her were involved in any crime they are investigating.