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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (342972)	1/14/2003 2:02:28 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

None of these things are meant to be permanent exigent circumstances which call for a streamlining of procedure are persistent attempts by terrorists to attack our homeland. If you cannot see that as a reason to loosen constraints on enforcement and security agencies... >>> Sure I can see a need for better, more efficient, more effective US Intelligence (combined with more realistic and productive foreign policies that are truer to our national values and long-term needs).... >>> But, what does that have to do with the slimy, Big Brotherish "Total Information Awareness" of US citizens? >>> What we may need is total information awareness of foreign citizens... but we don't need faceless federal bureaucrats crawling all over our credit records, our purchases, our bank accounts, bugging our ISPs so they can access 100% of all emails and tap all phone calls, 'localize' all of us from our cell phones, tape us in all public locations, crawl into our medical records, our employment and educational records, where we eat, what we read, how long we sleep, soon... who we vote for. >>> You let the Feds get away with that, and we're fighting for nothing 'cause freedom is DEAD! ----------------------------------------------------- >>> Freedoms and Liberty, once lost, are seldom regained. I'm not so much worried about legitimate prosecution of the Forever War... but about authoritarians implementing power grabs that have nothing to do with the war... merely occur under cover of it. When there is rioting in the streets... >>> Do you see any 'rioting' in American streets? No? Then why the Orwellian crime of "Total Information Awareness" and the "Poindextering" of America?