When the next Bill Clinton, Al Gore, or Adolph Hitler takes office, he won't be interested in your emails or my emails or our phone calls or the web sites we linked to.
He will be focused on the private and professional life of people like Matt Drudge, Bill O'Reilly, or Robert Novak. He wants to know what sexual peccadilloes Matt has, what DVDs Bill is renting and what people Mr. Novak has been talking to.
If enough people who guard our freedom against an overweening government are compromised, if the few remaining righteous politicians are caught in embarrassing positions, or if a corrupt president even knows about the private conversations and the daily whereabouts of good people in positions of power we can kiss our free republic goodbye.
And I could win the lottery. You are worried about something that hasn't happened. You are fighting against something that hasn't happened.
He will be focused on the private and professional life of people like Matt Drudge, Bill O'Reilly, or Robert Novak. He wants to know what sexual peccadilloes Matt has, what DVDs Bill is renting and what people Mr. Novak has been talking to.
Then you need to complain about what J.Edgar Hoover did. People don't care anymore about who is sleeping with whom? At one time, people committed suicide because they were rumored to be gay. Now, it's more like a badge of honor to them. The world has changed and we have to change with it. Listening to intercepted phone calls from al queda will not destroy this country. We have not lost any rights. It's you who are running scared over something that has not even happened.
righteous politicians are caught in embarrassing positions,
If they are righteous...what are they doing in embarrassing positions?
if a corrupt president even knows about the private conversations and the daily whereabouts of good people in positions of power we can kiss our free republic goodbye.
I don't see it as the evil you do. You see it as political blackmail gain. I don't think Americans would sit to kindly for that. I see it as a national security issue and a war on terror issue. Two entirely different positions. It is proven that the majority of Americans feel the way I do.