[The Great RJ]

Far from a traitor Snowden may well have saved our liberty. I think the reason why every-body’s private phone records, e-mails etc. are being monitored is due to insidious political correctness. We cannot profile the bad guys so like the TSA we body search little old ladies in wheelchairs, toddlers and everyone else in the hopes that we might find a terrorist. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack by examining every piece of straw rather than using a metal detector since we know needles are metal.

[Eagle of Liberty]

We cannot profile the bad guys so like the TSA we body search little old ladies in wheelchairs, toddlers and everyone else

This all point to a theory I have held for a while. It has been Obama's goal to raise such a ruckus in Washington as to bring about CWII. Never let a crisis go to waste and what larger crisis than a Civil War?

[flaglady47]

“Far from a traitor Snowden may well have saved our liberty. I think the reason why every-body’s private phone records, e-mails etc. are being monitored is due to insidious political correctness. We cannot profile the bad guys so like the TSA we body search little old ladies in wheelchairs, toddlers and everyone else in the hopes that we might find a terrorist. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack by examining every piece of straw rather than using a metal detector since we know needles are metal.”

Bingo, my FRiend. Very well put and bares repeating, so I just did so.

[Verginius Rufus]

Obama is out to destroy the Bill of Rights one by one. His attacks on the first and second amendment are well known. Now he's trying to make the fourth amendment meaningless.

If they were seriously trying to stop terrorism and were going after potential terrorists only, that would be one thing, but Obama has declared the war on terror over. I simply don't trust him. There is still a lot that is obscure on this latest story but the simplest explanation is that Obama wants to turn the US into a Communist-style state where the government spies on its citizens to control them, like East Germany or Cuba.