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POPSObama caves on the spy bill Great, get others to spy for you and then go to congress to give them immunity. No, I don't feel like my civil liberties are being eroded.
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POPSThe UK REAL ID Program Same as the US but more blatant spying. The US REAL ID incorporates the social security number from which all financial, medical, credit and personal info can be data-mined easily. Here the UK admits open collection of a broad amount of information. The UK does not have a bill of rights and the US acts like it does not. "Membership has its privileges" could be their slogan, without this you cannot "buy or sell".
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POPSACLU on FISA 'Compromise' It's pretty safe to describe the American Civil Liberties Union as not fans of the House's cave in on FISA and immunity for telcoms. If Nancy Pelosi's still the speaker in the next session, something is very, very wrong with the Democratic party. I can't think of any Democrat who's done a worse job with the gavel. ACLU's Caroline Fredrickson basically calls House members cowards -- it's hard to disagree.
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POPSDems Agree to Expand Domestic Spying, Grant Telecoms Amnesty This is the "chilling effect". Once people know they are being spied on, they can no longer speak freely. This is the most unconstitutional thing our government has done, or so I currently believe. Look at that smug s.o.b. That's the grin of a man who just sold his country to the interests of corporate entities. His constituents are the megacorps and not the US public as this move clearly shows.
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POPSPower and the relation between these two aricles More power to the leader of the US or could we do better without that institution? Parliamentary democracy seems to be more democratic when one looks at this administration. Way too much abuse of power. GITMO, surveillance, the list just goes on and on
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POPSFor His Treatment of Children in the 'War on Terror,' Bush is a War Treaties don't mean much to this president, to the vice president, or to the rest of the administration, but they should mean something to the rest of us. According to the US government's own figures, that is how many kids 17 years and younger have been held since 2001 as "enemy combatants"--often for over a year, and sometimes for over five years. At least eight of those children, some reportedly as young as 10, were held at Guantanamo. They even had a special camp for them there: Camp Iguana. One of those kids committed suicide at the age of 21, after spending five years in confinement at Guantanamo. (Ironically and tragically, that particular victim of the president's criminal policy, had been determined by the Pentagon to have been innocent only two weeks before he took his own life, but nobody bothered to tell him he was slated for release and a return home to Afghanistan.)
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POPSAre You On The Govt. Detainee List? "ARE YOU ON THE LIST? The federal government has been developing a highly classified plan that will override the Constitution in the event of a major terrorist attack" Beware of a false-flag operation. It's a trigger to put martial law in place and dissidents behind bars. Read the clipped source. Then, GO MAKE SOME NOISE WHILE YOU CAN!!
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POPSEvidence that U.S. Military Targeted Journalists Powerful!--former Army Sgt. intelligence participant with first-hand knowledge blows the whistle, also proves the reckless disregard for spying on Americans and others, contrary to intelligence protocol and law. This is a must-hear podcast, worth listening to in its entirety.
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POPSNAO: Homeland Security Launches New Domestic Spy Program Unbelievable and right in our faces. Brazen domestic spy program launched based upon satellite technology and furthering military involvement in domestic police operations. This is a tyranny matrix, contrary to the 4th amendment of the Constitution, again.
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POPSPost-9/11 Memo Shows Disdain for Constitution Bush's "Justice" Dept had written memo claiming that 4th amendment of the Constitution "did not apply". The administration now disavows this position, it claims, yet we see little evidence of their disavowal in regard to civil liberties when it comes to domestic spying, the PATRIOT ACT, REAL ID, or a host of other examples. It was Bush who blurted out that the Constitution is "just a g--damned piece of paper" , when legal challenges were warned of.
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POPSPush Congress on Enumerated Powers Act--Restrain Rogue Fed Powers Restrain the government within the Constitution! This powerful proposed law would require Congress to explain (i.e. enumerate) where in the Constitution each proposed piece of legislation is authorized. Consider their inability to justify REAL ID, PATRIOT ACT, Military Commissions Act, domestic spying, and even War with Iraq (without a declaration of war)! The "plea of necessity" is the tyrant's plea, as the founders and early Americans noted well, which has been employed liberally with the Bush administration (as well as many before it). "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce." James Madison, Federalist No. 45
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POPSWireless Cell Provider Gave Feds Backdoor Access BOYCOTT VERIZON! This is why Bush wants Telecoms "protected" instead of free citizens, because of deliberate network of illegal spying on millions of Americans. This was plainly illegal, and probably continues. Congress is being notified and the documentation taken seriously.
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POPSFBI Admits Spying on Innocent Americans Using "national intelligence letters" from the so-called USA PATRIOT ACT. You are no longer a free citizen protected by the Constitution, but a criminal or terrorist suspect. Note how "credit reports...phone records...internet traffic" are among things admitted to. Your credit report has your entire financial and life history on it. This is why REAL ID must be resisted entirely, as well as the extra-constitutional Gestapo-patterned Office of Homeland Security. The founders always warned that "necessity" is the tyrant's plea, the usual justification for breaking constitutional restraints on government.
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POPS9/11 Protester Arrested, Clinton Defends Official Story "an Osama bin Laden job", says Bill. Prove it Bill. The FBI has stated there is "no hard evidence linking bin Laden to 9/11"--Rex Tomb, FBI spokesman--which is why is Wanted poster at FBI does not list 9/11 attacks on his record. This is the most important and foundational issue for every present war, foreign policy, domestic spying, REAL ID, PATRIOT ACT, etc....and BOTH CORRUPT PARTIES support the IRRATIONAL AND CONTRADICTED story of who was behind 9/11! As long as THIS is believed a Democrat will be as bad as a Republican in the White House. People need to deal with this issue. It is fundamental to everything.
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POPSCongress Finally Challenges Bush on Spying Finally the fear-mongering is being proven overblown and that there is plenty of latitude within the Constitution for even domestic spying, with a WARRANT ISSUED UPON PROBABLE CAUSE. Question: If there is plenty of means by which to conduct LAWFUL domestic spying, then why does Bush government REALLY want greater lattitude? The only answer is to enable spying without accountability or any record of doing so...against any citizens they want!
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POPSExecute Branch Continues Domestic Spying Despite Sunset of PAA The "Protect America Act" expired last Sat, but the White House, complicit with the new AG Mukasey and National Intel Director McConnell (both neocons) says it will continue (law-breaking) domestic spying "for now", along with help from the Telecom fascist corporations under the pretense of defending against "terrorists who want to kill us all" --while there is no evidence of credible threats or attacks, and the Constitution and law is trampled. This is nothing less than Federal Anarchy! Why should citizens obey the law, if the feds and Executive in particular, do not?
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POPS Profiles in Cowardice Andrew C. McCarthy
The Protect Act expires at midnight tonight......It is worth pausing to recall why we have FISA. Very simply, its point was to provide a modicum of due process before Americans inside the United States could be subjected to national-security monitoring. It was a reaction (in truth, an overreaction) to Watergate era domestic-spying on the Nixon administration’s political opponents. But even the reckless Congress of the 1970s did not seek to protect foreign spies and terrorists operating beyond our borders. FISA was never intended to bring tens of thousands of foreign communications under judicial supervision. Such a process would compel the Justice Department to file applications for all such surveillance, a burden that could not be met. The consequence would be a breakdown of our capacity to acquire the information most essential to safeguarding Americans against attack -- to say nothing of the 200,000 American men and women putting their lives on the line in Iraq and Afghanistan
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POPSTell Congress NO on "Protect America Act"; Domestic Spy Powers Cowardly Congress extended the anti-constitutional legislation for 2 weeks before it expires so they can work on a "compromise" with White House to permit domestic surveillance on any Americans who make phone calls, emails, IMs, etc. internationally--without a warrant or probable cause. It is a deceitful provision and is UNNECESSARY in order to protect Americans against the mythical "terrorists" (who have not attacked in over 6 years). THE GOVERNMENT HAS PLENTY OF POWER WITHIN CONSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINTS TO PROTECT AMERICA. Email and write your Senators and Reps NOW and tell them NOT TO EXTEND the Protect America Act and to obey the Constitution like they swore to when taking office! See links in article for how to easily do this.
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POPSDomestic Spying Program Could Aid Terrorists, Experts Say The article, slated to appear in an upcoming issue of the journal IEEE Security & Privacy, was written by six experts from Sun Microsystems, Columbia University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and California-based research giant SRI International.
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POPS2 Weeks Into Its Mandate and Bushies Wanted to Spy On Us I sincerely hope that Harry Reid changes his mind about supporting the communications bill that gives the communications companies retroactive immunity. It seems now there is evidence that the Bushies started working on plans to spy on our phone calls after only two weeks in office. Please, call your senators and ask them to vote against this bill.
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