[FreeInWV]

Time to revive the Church Committee?

[steelyourfaith]

"Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department will activate his department's new domestic satellite surveillance office in stages, starting as soon as possible with traditional scientific and homeland security activities -- such as tracking hurricane damage, monitoring climate change and creating terrain maps. "

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[The Electrician]

"I have had a firsthand experience with the trust-me theory of law from this administration," said Harman, citing the 2005 disclosure of the National Security Agency's domestic spying program, which included warrantless eavesdropping on calls and e-mails between people in the United States and overseas. "I won't make the same mistake. . . . I want to see the legal underpinnings for the whole program." ...

Ignoring the inapt description "domestic spying program", something else bothered me about this excerpt. I may be misremembering, but wasn't Harman fully briefed about that program well before its existence was leaked to the public, and that she evidently approved of it at that time and for months or years until it became public, whereupon she did a complete reversal in her stance?

Is this just another example of a Demo/Commie saying one thing in private but another thing in public to appease and mollify the leftist extremists in the Democrats' base? Or have I confused Harman with some other Demo/Commie such as Rockefeller?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Just because you have the technology to do something doesn’t mean that it is a good idea.

Nobodies lives will be improved by having a dossier on every American, forcing almost everybody to carry ID cards, registering and licensing everything, monitoring all our communications, having surveillance cameras everywhere, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.

Most importantly, when governments do such things, it shows that they feel impotent and inefficient about the big things government is supposed to do. So they focus on the petty and unimportant. They become a nanny state. And they spend all their time nattering at the people.

How much of the federal government is utterly superfluous? 20%, 30%, even 50%?

“Ask not what your government can do for you. Ask your government to stop doing most of what it is doing.”

Maybe as a nation we need to go bankrupt for government to learn that it is not God, nor should it try to be God.

Maybe then will they learn to live within their means, and that the government that governs least, governs best. It is an old lesson, but was never more true.

[CDHart]

Time to revive the militias.

Carolyn

[live+let_live]

If you havn’t done anything wrong then you don’t have anything to worry about.

“We’re from the Government. We’re here to help.”

[RJL]

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department will activate his department's new domestic satellite surveillance office in stages

No doubt that watching our borders will be in the last stage, if it happens at all.