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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Ken Adams who wrote (48405)5/14/2006 4:46:23 PM
From: Jim S  Read Replies (4) of 90947
 
But, Ken, it isn't JUST phone records. It's all sorts of things that can be (or are) being merged, from your motor vehicle record to your property holdings, to who knows what-all. For all I know, they may be going to grocery stores to find out what brand of toilet paper people use (which is recorded on your store discount card), or the information from credit card bills (which the Patriot Act allows them to get without a warrant).

I realize I'm going a bit overboard here, and I'm only half serious. But the half that IS serious doesn't like the snooping capabilities I see in the direction the gov't is going.

And, to repeat, I'm not so much concerned about the Bush administration misusing these capabilities as I am in some future administration having the ability to do so.

I can't think of a single governmental power that hasn't been misused or abused at some time or another.
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