Ahhh....the Wisdom of Free Republic.

[Avalux]

I really don't make a habit of contaminating myself by going there, but curiosity got the best of me a few moments ago. I will, for the sake of containment, give a few of the little tidbits I managed to glean about the wiretapping revelation:

1. Bush's TV face time this morning was the brilliance of Tony Snow - he got the president out there fast to counter the lies!

2. The damage has been done - if there's another terrorist attack, the media and their sources must be held accountable for it (because they revealed the 'program').

3. Since American citizens don't own the phone lines and equipment, anything said on them is public, so what's the big deal?

4. If the 'program' had been in place prior to 9/11, calls from Germany and other places could have been intercepted and 9/11 could have been prevented.

Should I go on? Sorry I can't - it's too painful. Take my word for it there's a lot more of this downright crazy stuff over there. I still can't believe people can be this brainwashed. Really sad.

[Sydnie]

1. Not free republic but by a freeper-type none the less

"The database goes back to the '90s. Hmmm...who was president during the '90s?"

The Clenis made him do it I guess. :shrug:

[Debau2005]

3. That's right

we haven't yet found the true cause. We forget that Pres Clinton did it! :sarcasm:

[Aristus]

5. Well, if Clinton initiated the program, shouldn't they be against it?

Or did he actually do a good job preventing terrorist attacks?

Those chuckle-heads always try to have it both ways. :eyes:

[Avalux]

7. If you read the 4th item in my post - they're conflicted, lol.

Can't ever be said their thinking follows any sort of logical path.

[Debau2005]

8. Oh...don't make their head spin

with double talk...You'll get them all confused and flustered! :rofl:

[Debau2005]

2. They have named it the "program"?

Good lord...you gotta wonder if they really believe the dribble they are typing!

As for number 3, I may not own the phone line, but I do own the equipment, I purchased my own phone system.

Of course, I had freepers tell me today that it was not them being tapped! ok, whatever...

[Robbien]

4. Those guys could be standing on a stool with electrodes glued

to their arms, a black bag covering their heads, with a US paid mercenary at the switch, and still freepers would say Bush is their savior.

[ourbluenation]

6. Actually - the good news is that a fair amount of them are turning on *

and a fair amount of them are not down with this NSA stuff at all. I've spent the morning there.

It's not good when you have a large chunk of both sides of the isle pissed off at you.

[grasswire]

10. a fair number of freepers are being banned, too

Robinson smacked down a whole bunch of them yesterday.

[Dave Reynolds]

19. The Great RimJob Impeachment Purge of 2006.

The Kool-Aid was diluted, now it is more pure.

[Robbien]

11. There are plenty there who will stick to their party no matter what.

Just like there are so many here who will stick to the Democratic party no matter what.

[Joe for Clark]

17. The difference is - they are just not going to vote - at all.

They may not be able to pull the lever for a dem - they don't have to. They just have to stay home.

That is going to be Roves concern - he has to get them to vote. He can't do it - and the asshole has other things on his mind right now, in any event.

Joe

I hope this investigation of Fitzgerald goes on for at least a few more months, I really do.

[Jacobin]

Those would be the conservatives

Freepers by and large are not conservative at all. They are simply radical right wing extremists. Fascists, really. No conservative would approve of shredding the constitution. Ever.

[Joe for Clark]

9. They won't be if they found out some of their

phones were monitored.

There will always be an idiot (or small group thereof).


Joe

[CountAllVotes]

15. yeah or their husband/wife's calls to 1-900 #'s pop up

Then, it won't be so damn funny will it?

:evilgrin:

:kick:

[Joe for Clark]

16. Sure won't.

Joe

[trixie]

12. 9/11 crap makes me laugh

Bush was warned repeatedly. He refused to even cooperate with the 3 past presidents. I believe that the FBI already had a couple of the hijackers renting an FBI house that was monitered and still Bush did nothing. If you look at www.newamericancentury.org you can see that since the mid to late 90s he and his pals were just waiting for this to happen. I believe he knew and did nothing.

[ComerPerro]

13. didn't I read somewhere that the program was in place before 9/11?

[Ms. Clio]

21. It WAS in place before 9/11: see this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1161971&mesg_id=1162261

[Norquist Nemesis]

14. Well, since the I don't own the phone lines

Then what the fuck am I paying through the nose for!!?

God almighty, the twisted logic of these people is astounding.

[Old and In the Way]

18. They'd have been the faithful Party rank and file under Stalin

always ready to drop a dime on their neighbors. A paranoid, sheepish bunch who'll never question authority.

[Berserker]

20. More and more freeper logic