To: Poohbah; sinkspur
"What the traitorous scumbags screaming about this don't want to admit is that the FISA court was created by a TRULY bipartisan group of lawmakers that sought to balance the questions of individual civil liberties on the one hand and the need to keep from tipping off surveillance suspects on the other hand."
2 -poo-
What the overwrought scumbags screaming ~for~ this don't want to admit is that the FISA court was created by a TRULY irrational bipartisan group of lawmakers that sought to balance the questions of individual civil liberties on the one hand and the need to keep from tipping off surveillance suspects on the other hand, -- and failed.
--- They have the insane idea that constitutional liberties can be defended by allowing a 'small amount' of infringement.
For close to 100 years now, one bit of infringement has built on another, and our free republic is dying the death of a thousand cuts.
- When the wrong political demagogue finds the right crisis to use as an excuse to ~really~ exercise these powers, we can kiss our freedom goodby.
Bet on it.
13 posted on
03/24/2003 4:45:02 PM PST by
tpaine
To: tpaine
Lookey here! If it isn't the terrorists' best friend! What rights have you lost, you, tpaine, as a result of the government being able to lock up terrorists without telling anybody?
Does it piss you off that FISA's been around since 1978, and, horror of horrors, we've managed to survive?
14 posted on
03/24/2003 4:50:13 PM PST by
sinkspur
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