"Forget terror for now like me and Bill did in the `90`s..What we must focus on is why it gets cold in the winter and hot in the summer. This phenomenon will destroy us all!"
Posted on 07/01/2007 5:34:18 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), the chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said Sunday he wants to “more widely” use surveillance cameras across the country.
“The Brits have got something smart going in England, and it was part of why I believe they were able to so quickly apprehend suspects in the terrorist acts over the weekend, and that is they have cameras all over London and other of their major cities,” Lieberman said.
“I think it’s just common sense to do that here much more widely,” he added. “And of course, we can do it without compromising anybody’s real privacy.”
Lieberman lamented the “petty, partisan fighting” in Congress and called on his colleagues to join together to upgrade the nation’s electronic surveillance capabilities.
“Right now, we’re at a partisan gridlock over the question of whether the American government can listen into conversations or follow e-mail trails of non-American citizen,” he said on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. “That’s wrong. We’ve got to solve that problem, pass a law to give the people working for us the ability to protect us.”
Lieberman, who is more closely aligned with the GOP than the Democrats he caucuses with on the war in Iraq and many national security issues and insisted Sunday that the surge in Iraq is working.
“You might say that, in Iraq, we’ve got the enemy on the run, but for some reason, in Washington, a lot of politicians are on the run to order a retreat by our troops even as they are beginning to succeed,” he said.
Lieberman stated it is not fair to conclude that he is more likely to endorse a Republican for president.
But he added that “so far I would say that Democratic candidates, in the larger questions of American security, have been disappointing, and I hope things will get better as this goes on.”
Way to go Joe.
gee. I knew he was going to flake out at some point.
For what, Joe? Those Illegals YOU voted to let become citizens?
The cameras won't be placed near enough to abortion clinics to identify anyone going in.
"Forget terror for now like me and Bill did in the `90`s..What we must focus on is why it gets cold in the winter and hot in the summer. This phenomenon will destroy us all!"
And this guy is widely considered to be one of the finest "defenders of liberty" in the DemonRat party. Scary Times.
I have a better idea: Pass a law that repeals all the laws that make it difficult for us to protect ourselves, you old socialist.
Hope they put several on those whackos in the Senate. And several extras on Pelosi’s office.
If we simply deported the Muslims, we wouldn’t have a need for ANY of these repressive programs the internationalists feel are so necessary to their objectives.
They work only to tag who did it.
Judge Posner is right er have to eavesdrop more and use our surveillance technology more and we have to keep these cases out of court and in secret tribunals or their will be worse attacks and more serious effects on all our civil liberties.
Here’s the UK’s Gordon Brown today:”• Gordon Brown raised the prospect of detaining suspects without charge for more than 28 days and allowing the use of phone-tap evidence in court”
They are already in use where needed. Senselessly adding more is not necessarily an efficient or economical use of resources.
Ok.
Instead of addressing the real issue, illegal immigrents, terrorism and lax borders...as well as a moral blindspot of multiculturalism ....he wants us all to be watched like criminals.
Every time I see a camera go up at an intersection, I shudder... and hope that some kid shoots it out.
ML/NJ
If al Qaeda ever fails to stop at a red light, we’ll have ‘em cold!
For a wider use of cameras you should mount one on Teddie ( like an “in car cam” ) and let us see “all the action” of the Senate......
Like when at least one of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers was stopped and had an expired visa or when visa renewal letters were sent out to some of them months after 9/11?
Why does it seem to me the federal government will be inept and incompetent when it comes to using these cameras for anything but collecting taxes and invading your privacy?
I don't fear Al Qaeda as much as I fear the federal government. Al Qaeda's killed a few thousand people. The federal government has enslaved about 300 million and made most of them happy about their bondage.
“And of course, we can do it without compromising anybody’s real privacy.”
Yep. Sure you can. What a putz. Close the border. Find anyone remotely linked to an Islamofascist in our country (I can point you to the nearest Mosque for starters!) and kick them out of America.
Oh, but that would be too mean! We need to protect the liberties of those that want to kill us, while further eroding those of True-Blue Americans!
Yeesh.
No thanks. Government has too much power already.
Way to go?
This is the Lieberman...that just voted to give AMNESTY to 15-20 MILLION unknowns!!!
Oh sure...camera's will stop crime. Like laws will.
Get smarter.....
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