Posted on 05/21/2015 12:55:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Man you are willing to bend on this one you are willing to bend on all.
Did you listen to any of the filibuster last night? Chilling to say the least. Substituting prying laws for worse prying laws because of Snowden dump. Paying Google, Yahoo, and now cellular (not just land lines) companies for your meta data.
Billions of dollars lost to US businesses because of NSA spying on other COUNTRIES not TERRORISTS. These are jobs lost to US Citizens in these billions of dollars lost and allies lost to NSA spying.
American companies run out of countries, Brazil for one have developed their own mail application in place of Microsoft because of the NSA plugins to Microsoft.
The NSA is an overgrown bloated Government organization breaking constitutional laws. It thinks itself above all laws.
To the FERAL Government, stay out of my house, stay out of my bedroom, stay the hell out of my gun safe and stay the hell out of my data stream.
I wouldn’t lose a bit of sleep over it, Marcella. Full disclosure, my husband retired in 2007 from a Federal law enforcement agency that is charged with gathering intelligence under Homeland Security. We still have many friends who work in different branches of federal law enforcement. They are appalled that people think they spend their days sifting through data, targeting law abiding citizens. Nothing could be further from the truth. The job they do is complex enough without that kind of massive waste of time and resources. Besides, being monumentally stupid and pointless, it would also be impossible to provide the scrutinty that many here feel is a danger to them.
I support the USA Freedom Act.
I stopped listening to the filibuster after Rand Paul make the ridiculous, pandering statement he made that we should apologize to the Black and Brown people who had been convicted of crimes detected under the Patriot Act.
Why even bother to have a “Bill of Rights”, as long as you have done nothing wrong. Maybe we should just rip that darned ol’ constitution up. If we can just infringe everyone’s rights because they say so our protection from infringement is moot, that’s the point, no other point needs to be made. Constitutionally we are protected from this behavior by our government and when we look the other way and allow this activity on the basis of “I’ve done nothing wrong” it undermines the founding document of a grand social order called “The United States of America”. No patriot should allow this intrusion on our liberties and certainly no “conservative”.
Do Americans truly believe that the agency tasked with the huge job of collecting trillions of dollars of tax revenue
really spends its time picking and choosing who to investigate based on political opinion?
I support the USA Freedom Act.
What does the IRS’s politically motivated targeting of the Tea Party have to do with the Patriot Act? I support the USA Freedom Act as a better alternative.
Patriot Act
USA Freedom Act
Fine examples of laws that are named to give the impression that they are exactly the opposite of what they do and/or stand for.
“I wouldn’t lose a bit of sleep over it, Marcella. Full disclosure, my husband retired in 2007 from a Federal law enforcement agency that is charged with gathering intelligence under Homeland Security.”
I was ticked off when Homeland Security placed, on their website, the verbiage that preppers were suspect of being domestic terrorists, along with retired military. I don’t worry about them because I figure more intelligent people will head that agency once Obama is gone. I’m a major prepper due to having lived in hurricane country and I resent anyone having an issue with me over that - especially since Obama has prepper equipment to keep him alive for years in his bunker provided by us.
I know there are good people in the NSA and you know there are good ones gathering intelligence in Homeland Security. Now, we just have to get Obama out to make sure he doesn’t use both those agencies to go after law abiding conservative citizens. Until he is gone, I don’t trust ANY government agency.
Thanks for writing to me with your info..
Good for You! I’ve been reading some interesting info on disaster preperation myself. It is totally goofy for that to be in any way suspect and I understand your being ticked off. You are spot on that it is the current administration that is the problem. I know we are all counting the days.....
Then there is the reverse angle: has such shopping done any good at all? http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3292475/posts If not, why continue?
“Here’s the thing. The targeting of Tea Party Conservatives didn’t have anything to do with the NSA or any agency operating under the Patriot Act. That was politically motivated by this corrupt administration.”
Thats why you don’t give the government the tools in the first place. Thats why we have a bill of rights. Else, we can just hope for a “nice” king.
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