Comments on: Bush wants expanding spying powers

By: John Hanks

John Hanks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Isn’t the power to arrest, torture, and murder people on a random basis enough. Stalin didn’t need hearsay. He just destroyed lives wholesale.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“he worries that current laws and regulations prevent intelligence agencies from using all of their capabilities to protect the nation”

Translated: Our political enemies are surprisingly resilient. We must completely destroy the Constitution so that we may crush our political enemies and ensure our continued place in the power structure.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The attacks of 911 were the result of a desire by a few to change the status quo. In order to successfully remove a free countries freedom and rights of its citizens, there has to be a cause that fools the citizens into allowing thier own enslavement through fear and anger. This was done by design with 911. The same producers of that horror are producing the horror in the middle east and the ones who keep taking more and more civil liberties away from americans, all in the phoney war on terror. It was started with government sponsored terror and continues with government secrecy ever increasing.
This is a war on america and the basic concept of freedom.
Untill the masses of brain dead sheeples realize what and where the war is about and is going, we will continue the slide into a police state of spys and surviellence and of course, no freedom. The whole terror threat is designed to instill fear when in truth, it can’t pose the threat they want you to believe it does. Homeland Security is in fact the base of a government control police force designed to incorporate the use of the military with local police agencys to enable absolute control over citizens. There is no other logical result from the obvious intentions of NSA to monitor all american citizens

By: Sonorous pest

Sonorous pest — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Congress must step in and impeach this group of escaped lunatics.
Impeach, Impeach, Impeach, Impeach, Impeach, Impeach.

By: Wayne K Dolik

Wayne K Dolik — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The enemy is we. The sooner we all realize this the better off we will be. This is a thinly veiled war on the American citizen, cloaked in secrecy. Increasing the power of Government is an invitation to Marshall Law. Would you like another 4 years of the Decider?

By: C. Nemo

C. Nemo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As I clicked on the title “Bush Wants Expanding Spy Powers” and slowly scrolled down I saw the frightful face of the consumate, Orwellian bureaucrat; i.e., Mike McConnel. I rarely nail someone on an ad hominem basis, in this case looks, but my heart jumped because he reminded me of the characters in the ’85′ Monty Python movie “Brazil” which is a film dedicated to a citizens frightful encounters with the authorities in an over-the-top totalitarian state.

The Senate recently approved this guys appointment in spades. Now our traitorous “republicrats” who gave us the Patriot Act (unread), the Military Commissions Act (lotsa feigned concern), will no doubt rubber stamp modifications to the FISA Act. Of course Arlen Specter-R will have his nose in the works as Mr. Compromise and in the end the Bushistas will get their way again for the umpty-umpth time. As always “we the people” will lose again big-time unless we react with over-whelming opposition to anymore of this nonsense. The FBI and our intelligence services did a rotten job protecting us from 9/11 and they had all the laws on the books necessary to do their job properly, but for some reason they all had “management oversight” problems at the highest levels when valid intelligence made it to their desks. All too convenient I say to help them facilitate their Orwellian schemes for absolute control over Americans and the world in general. They are so efficient with all their new powers, that they manage to keep infants off airplanes because they too end up on the TSA’s,”no fly” list…?!

Folks as I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, all citizen patriots regardless of party affiliation need to get off their collective duffs and start making those necessary calls to their elected reps and not only say no, but “hell no” to any further expansion of surveillance over American citizens! Millions complain, but they never, ever take the effort to make those necessary calls to their reps. It was only several weeks ago that the FBI was exposed for not doing their job properly relative to the Patriot Act?! Has anything been done about it…NO! Just a bunch of boohoo hand-wringing on the part of our elected disappointments. I’ll provide two links. One is the duty link for contacting your reps and the other is so you can enroll in an email alert that shows you how your elected rep votes during their term in office. You have watch them like a hawk and if they are voting for a NWO/MIC/AIPAC globalists ‘r us, police state agenda then they do not need to go back to D.C….period! America and the free world is in harms way with these PNAC, neo-con mattoids in control. This can have only continued with more than willing helpers on both sides of the aisle…traitors all to the Constitution and the Republic for which it stands…!

http://www.conservativeusa.org/megalink.htm
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

By: Shag

Shag — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

How can they continually get fail and still attempt to get this crock of mess through. Nothing they’ve done has worked. I listen to them attempting to hedge on the terrorist front: “We haven’t been hit since 9/11, yet the terrorist will strike again.” Well, if that’s the case, how are they making us safer?
I worked with special ed. kids for 24 years, and they had more rhyme to their reason.

By: Joe Keegan

Joe Keegan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To micro-chip your butt and take a DNA sample after your mandatory protoscope exam or routine roadside body cavity search following a traffic violation? They have enough spying power already. Congress can pass a law with “protective oversight” that 10 foot plus alligators aren’t allowed to nibble on you, but jump in some river down here in the southeast and try swimming pass some hungry gator. Given additional to power to spy to these various agencies is no different. If you want an example of the possible abuse, check out my Petition to Gov. Crist at http://www.governmentspying.blogspot.com . I can prove what I’ve charged in my understated, sanitized, and condensed Petition. Do you really believe that the government would have any problem doing this to anyone that they want to?

By: Joe Keegan

Joe Keegan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

…did I forget to mention that the military also spys on American citizens? Sometimes they even co-ordinate with civilian law enforcement. Oh, excuse me, that’s not polite to say as it offends our democratic sensibilities and upsets some of our so-called “Representatives” because they’re supposed to safeguard our “freedom” in our land of the free and home of the brave. Congress already knows about some of these programs. So do you really think that this is a good idea to “keep us safe” or turn us into some totalitarian fascist’s wet dream?

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

if Bush has to keep asking for more powers and extending tours of duty.

Every time this group of thugs asks for something more, America needs to remember what they’ve done with what they’ve been given.