Posted on 06/01/2015 8:31:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
One of the primary contentions, yesterday evening, of Establishment Republicans and Democrats in defense of the NSA's massive data collection program, was that the program was not only free from abuse (something we know is not true), but that it's ultimately useful in targeting real threats to the American people; maybe not yesterday, maybe not today, but perhaps some day in the future it will ensnare an entire sleeper sell of Jihadists mid-phone call to Iran, giving an unsecured credit card number to their yellowcake suppliers. The data collection, you see, is done only on those whose backgrounds demand it. If you've done nothing wrong? Then why worry that your cell phone data records are stored on a massive supercomputer in Utah, where they can be routinely downloaded and searched?
One thing they forgot to mention? The Obama Administration, which has greatly expanded warrantless wiretapping, has a very interesting definition of who consitutes a threat. They haven't been entirely forthcoming (or maybe they have, really) in who they focus on when it comes to things like "lone-wolf terrorist" or "threats to the very nature of our social fabric." And that's because, when they use the terms, they don't really mean the homegrown groups of Jihadists that Lindsey Graham or Dan Coats envisions, plotting to put a dirty bomb in a shopping mall or release anthrax into Congress's air ducts.
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Heh. And to think how the Left once HOWLED like banshees over Nixon’s “missing minutes” of tape. Now, it’s THEIR ox being gored, and they couldn’t give the time of day.
“Equality” on the Left means; “I get always, and you get whenever I say so.”
I guess that ass hat Sunstien has never been to DU where any contrary posts arr deleted.
If THEY want to start something, bring it on.
I'm so fed up with the current Regime and it's numerous lapdogs, that whatever happens, happens.
This website was established to express Free, 1st Amendment speech.
If they try to take that away from us, they have no idea the giant they will wake-up.
They don’t need to worry about far-left extremists because far-left extremists control the federal government, the media, the universities, and the public schools.
The author conflates unrelated issues.
The first seems intentionally misleading:
“Then why worry that your cell phone data records are stored on a massive supercomputer in Utah, where they can be routinely downloaded and searched?”
That is NOT how it works!
The collected phone data only shows which numbers were in contact, when, and for how long.
There is NO CONTENT to be “searched”!
I just got a change of address connfirmation...email message..from comcast....for an order...i did not make..
now thats a bit scarey!
Let me know if someone delivers you food in your name; now THAT would be something.
Several people Have mentioned that their Internet seems slower so I’m guessing Operation Net Neutrality is already working to ensure bandwidth is shared fairly whether you paid for any of it or not.../s
I’m too damn old to give a rip...lol.
Given the opportunity, I’d speak the very same words straight into the Marxist’s face, that I’ve posted here.
“This president surrendered the ‘war on terror’ when he took power.”
The American electorate surrendered the “war on terror” when it elected Obama.
I’ve been waiting for awhile now. I’m getting tired. Iffin’ you’re coming for people, please make me first.
There’s nothing stopping us from doing the same should one of ours take the presidency in 2016.
And that would be a good day.
They can come and get me, F#CK’EM.
comcast was a bit slower back in her time......and they still havent gotten that customer service thing too well coordinated in the ensuing fifty plus years!!!
As far as Obama and his minions are concerned, Conservatives are a ‘threat’ - communists and socialists are The Establishment.
He's like the wimpy kid with the protective single mom who never got out there and got dirty and muddy with other kids, never developed callouses, and never learned to be a man...
Thus, his ideological opponents are, to him, enemies...
The DOJ sucks. They don’t support or provide justice for America under the “won.” They’ve become a leftist tool.
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