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Domestic Spying in A Free DemocracyNow that the American people are formally aware that the NSA (which is funded by tax payer dollars) is spying on its own people, it time to take stock of the situation. Does the American government have the right or the true need to spy on its own people in the name of national security ? What are the implications of this activity to the long term health of our Democracy ? How will the temptation to use personal information "accidentally" obtained through spying be held in check by the select few in the NSA who come to "know" about it. Information that could be readily used to further their own or someone elses personal or political agendas ?
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WE LOST OUR LIBERTY AND DEMOCRACY AND WE DONT KNOW IT
The government has the right in time of war to do such things as may be necessary to
secure the peace and defend the country against foreign enemies. They are not doing that.
They are bypassing laws in place to go to a federal court to get warrants in order to be kept accountable for their spying and just spied illegally.
The press didn't make a big deal. The Congress didn't make a big deal. The people are debating this. How can we debate the President breaking the Law? How can you explain
any administration that consistently lies to the people and allows so many men and women to die in the name of democracy when it steals democracy at home.
Ask the soldiers who are dying to export democracy to Iraq if they know what freedom is. "Do they plan to vote? Do their parents vote? Or is this just an insane period of
transition to a fascist state? I would say we lost democracy when Bush stole the elections twice. First with the help of the Supreme Elders and then with phoney machines.
Pray for this year to be better, but don't count on it. We lost our way and our free press is so timid it cannot distinguish between important stuff and Michael Jackson's trial and what Oprah was wearing the other day.
PEACE IN THE NEW YEAR...BRING THE TROOPS HOME.