"Who do you feel will better protect the United States from the terrorists?"
... being stated by every Republican running for office.
Posted on 05/12/2006 5:54:13 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Until now, Democrats had insisted that they didn't want to end President Bush's terrorist surveillance program, saying instead that the law merely needed to be changed to make terrorist surveillance inside the U.S. illegal.
On Wednesday, however - even before USA Today's bogus report about the NSA's phone number data collection program - 71 House Democrats signed up to sponsor a move that would make it illegal for the NSA to continue to monitor terrorist phone calls.
The liberal web site Raw Story reported Thursday:
"The 71 Democrats and one independent filed an amicus brief in two federal courts reviewing challenges to the warrantless wiretapping program in Detroit and New York, joining the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights."
"Both suits demand the program be stopped."
Predictably, Michigan Democrat John Conyers led the charge: "As our brief makes clear, this Congress dealt with this issue authoritatively almost 30 years ago - warrantless spying on American soil is flatly prohibited," he railed.
Well allll righty then! When the next terrorist attack comes we can blame the Democrats.
I hope NewsMax realizes that Raw Story is a favorite website of Conyers - he gives interviews there pretty often. And their stories are not very credible
...ALL ENEMIES FORGEIGN & DOMESTIC!
Is not life the most important of civil liberties? These intelligence programs are trashed without any curiosity as to whether they've prevented any attacks and saved any lives. The hostile responses are largely knee-jerk and lack any kind of context. The arguments are abstract and descend into fear-mongering. While I'm all for philosophical debates, how about a little more reality when it comes to fighting and winning this war—a real war against a horrific enemy.
Ohhhh...so this is behind that stupid story that is not news. I heard AP interview idiots in SF all saying they didn't want people listening into their phone calls! What a bunch of colossal morons on display. They are ripping off Jay Leno's Jay Walking segment. I'd sue!
You know, it's no wonder the Iranian government doesn't fear us.
The Democratic party is full of buffoons.
They will get lots of us killed to satisfy their lust for power.
Myopic idiots.
And here I'd thought there were Dems out there who wanted the rest of us to believe they were actually patriots.
One wonders how much "financial support" these Democrats receive from Arab donors.
Could it be that they are trying to keep THEIR phone calls to their Arab paymasters "covered-up"?
That's a legitimate question.
"Who do you feel will better protect the United States from the terrorists?"
... being stated by every Republican running for office.
RATS and their friends in what Rush calls, "the drive-by media", will have to re-double their efforts at indoctrinating the American public between now and election day in November. They haven't been able to sway most of them yet, in spite of their daily barrage of manufactured stories, slanted polls, negative "news" and non-stop Bush bashing.
Phone-Records Surveillance Is Broadly Acceptable to Public (ABC Poll)
ABC News ^ | 5/12/06 | Mikey_1962
Posted on 05/12/2006 8:57:25 AM EDT by Mikey_1962
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631027/posts
You don't really want the Dems to lose their lawsuit, do you? Phone records are nice to have if you are out to get your political opponents, but credit card and bank records are even better if you really want to know who is doing what. The G.W. Orwell administration knows this and they likely have such information on you and all the Dems in Congress by now.
Remember that when the Dems take over in 2009, they could also use the same info to find out what is really going on in the good old VWRC. Can you imagine some of the things that must be said in VWRC phone calls? There must be some way to get a juicy charge out of the VWRC's phone and internet records -- maybe even a way to send some of them to unknown prisons in Eastern Europe.
Conyers and McKinney are two who seem to be verrry friendly with the Arabs.
And I guess they are also saying that FDR was way out of line when the "mail planes" landed in the Bahamas (?) both coming and going so that all US overseas mail could be off loaded, read, censored and then sent on - even before we got into WWII?*
(* caller to Rush yesterday gave these details - unfortunately for the libs, there are still people alive who remember these activities)
"Could it be that they are trying to keep THEIR phone calls to their Arab paymasters "covered-up"?"
Folks might consider sending the link to their Critters and Senators.
This is an issue on which the GOP should get on the offensive, and now. Run TV ads making it clear the Dems would weaken America. They just might keep their majorities in Congress with that kind of strategy.
"This is an issue on which the GOP should get on the offensive, and now"
Excellent point. Excuse me Senator, "Are you in favor or against the 'Terrorist Privacy Act'?
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