Posted on 12/25/2005 11:13:21 PM PST by F14 Pilot
LONDON, December 26 (IranMania) - A morning daily commented on recent reports of the US media on cases of Washington's domestic espionage calling the US government a serial abuser of human rights, said IRNA.
Referring to New York Times latest report concerning spying on American citizens by a number of US intelligence and security bodies, 'Iran News' said they conducted extensive domestic surveillance of all forms of telecommunication wiretapping on US citizens "without court-approved warrants."
Referring to the American National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI as two bodies involved in the "spying scandal," it put the action under question from the legal and constitutional points of view.
"Some legal experts opine that the pervasive nature of the wiretapping and the fact that no due process was involved is in contravention of several US criminal statutes including the privacy laws," said the article stressing the policy may well prove to be unconstitutional.
Noting that the opposition Democrats had called for an investigation by the US House of Representatives and the Senate over the legality and constitutionality of domestic spying, the paper said, "Some in the Democratic Party have even called for the impeachment of President Bush."
The US government however, has tried to justify its actions by asserting that America is at war and during times of national emergency such surveillance is neither unusual nor illegal.
"Pundits ask how can the US government go around the world and lecture just about freedom, democracy, the rule of law and human rights when it is routinely and systematically involved in breaching the very basic tenets of civil and constitutional liberties and human rights at home?," argued the paper.
It stressed that the overwhelming majority of world public opinion believed that the US practices double standard, is not trustworthy and acts as a bully.
"America is in fact a serial abuser of human rights as was demonstrated in the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo scandals as well as a similar case of routine torture and abuse in Afghanistan's Bagram detention facility," concluded the editorial.
In the old days towns would have watchtowers to watch for fires, I guess this would be a privacy rights violation now.
Damned cereal abusers! Look at them enjoying themselves while they---ohhh it's just too disgusting!
The NYT and the Iran News... joining together in trying to take the US down.
exactly!
Cereal abuse is NOT a laughing matter. I once had a sliver of Wheaties cruelly shoved under my fingernails by Karl Rove himself, like a bamboo shoot. Then, he dripped milk on my forehead. It wasn't skim milk, either, it was the deadly homogenizedophobic 4% stuff.
Although I'm ashamed to admit it, the agony was such that I eventually cracked. I told everything about Iraqi breakfast foods, including where the Hostess yellowcake Zingers were stashed.
Horrible experience. Still, I'm sorry, everybody.
/s
Traitorous scum. A lifetime supply of Wheatabix and skim milk for you! ;)
"A lifetime supply of Wheatabix and skim milk for you!"
We're Not Worthy!
"The New York Times" is not some monolithic faceless alien oracle.
It is run by this man, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and his cadre of socialist crook propagandists from NYC's 42nd st.
Sulzberger is an enemy of the state and should be surveilled and brought up on charges of sedition.
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No man can endure being milkboarded. You'd go soggy too, Capn Crunch.
It could be worse. What if he'd been a cereal violator?
Please - tell me that is a picture of the guy with the silly grin in the ED advertisement, not the editor of "America's newpaper of record."
Well since the slaughter of children daily by a host of Islamic nations in a host of islamic and non islamic nations is not mentionable while he slams the nation that gave him freedom, I hope this man never has his phone wiretapped, but he gets to live in a place that has exploding pizzas and city buses to broaden his perspective on life a bit.
May his life be ruled by his priorities.
What a worthless contradiction liberals can be. The more they make a ruckus though, the more the record outs them over the long haul.
Those watchtowers came down, as they were targeted as potential migratory impedements to several species of birds which flew at less than 500'AGL. Of course the susequent undetected fires resulting from the tower removals cooked the ones who were previously going around them.
I accidentally took a man's life with a box of Grape-Nuts. I'll be in prison for life because in Arizona you can't pardon a cereal killer.
When I met my new cell mate, I asked "What are you in for?"
He grinned and said "Nut 'N Honey".
We'll be hauled up before the World Court before you know it.
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