Bush says His Spying On America Is To Keep Us Safe

[babsbunny]

But He Is Not Keeping Us Safe In Any Other Way Such As Home Security, Fema, Securing our Borders, etc. Why is he REALLY spying on America? This is proof positive he is a lying sack of crap!

[Democrats_win]

1. Didn't they something like that during the inquisition?

[HereSince1628]

2. The ends do not justify the means. We teach this to 6 year olds

I cannot understand why so many people think this is somehow a justification for what is right up at the top of the list of most serious abuses of power in the history of the nation.

[realFedUp]

3. unfortunately not from them.

some people's freedom fighters are other people's terrorists.

[McCamy Taylor]

4. Article 2 Presidents have to commit atrocities to prove their dedication.

It isnt just that they believe that they CAN break the law. Deep down they and their followers feel that they MUST break the law in order to prove their devotion to their cause which is total apocalyptic scale WAR. Note how W.'s most rabid followers get excited when they hear about civil liberties violations in the name of war. They enjoy it. It seems righteous, like taking part is some kind of crusade/lynch mob/witch hunt. You aren't a real berzerker unless you lose it for your cause. You haven't given 150%, unless you have trampled on innocent people.

W. is Hitler minus the brains, charisma, moral code, work ethic. He is sort of a pantomine Hitler, a puppet that Rove and his handlers are making act like a Hitler in order to please the far Right in this country, even though W. himself is much too lazy to ever make a decent fascist dictator.

[Neil Lisst]

5. Bush can read our mail, our email, and tap our phones ...

But he can't do anything about the millions coming across the border illegally. He can't do anything about the millions of crates we get in our ports.

This isn't about spying to catch foreign enemies of the US, but spying to intimidate Americans. Just like KGB did for decades in the USSR.

[tirechewer]

6. He is doing it because he wants...

Bush wants to be a dictator. They are all a bunch of fascist pigs. They are spying on everything.

I have a little antiwar board with a blog. It's not big time, or probably even seen that much. I have a site meter on it because I want to see what people who come there like and what they look at to improve traffic. Every now and then I check the details to see who's coming by.

On December 28, I checked out the details and got the Central Intelligence Agency, their IP, the type of computer the employee was using and the fact that whomever it was was in Washington DC. I had seen one from doj.gov just a few minutes earlier and I was flabbergasted. Two in one day?

Then I got mad, made screen captures of both and saved them as jpgs. I printed both detail pages. I wrote an article on the blog welcoming them and telling them that if they had any questions, to email me and not be shy about letting me know they were there. I don't believe for a second that they are so stupid that they would let me see them if they didn't want to be seen. They were trying to scare me. I'm going to check more often now and when I get a pile of printed detail pages, I'm going to send them to my senator and ask what she's been doing about this.

I doubt that anyone will care very much, but this is excessive. My tax dollars spying on me.:wtf:

[rpannier]

7. Same logic that was used by

the Nazi's in Germany, Pol Pot in Cambodia, the Communist Government in China, the Taliban, etc.