Stuck on Stupid By Roxanna Moser
The Bear on Aug 12 2007 at 8:26 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
Apparently, it has escaped the notice of one segment of the American population that a larger segment of the world’s population wants to destroy us. How else to describe the near immediate, knee-jerk reaction to any legislation that would in any way interfere with the terrorists’ desire to bring this country to its knees.
Over the weekend, President Bush signed into law the Protect America Act, which passed both houses of Congress with comfortable margins, which would expand our ability to listen in on foreign conversations as an aid in the global war on terror.
As surely as the sun sets in the west, a howl has gone up from the civil liberties crowd. According to the Center for National Security Studies, “The administration approach would allow the NSA warrant-less access to virtually all international communications of Americans with anyone outside the U.S., so long as the government declared that the surveillance was directed at anyone reasonably believed to be overseas.”
Who do they think they’re kidding. Number one, how much privacy can we have when every single person calling to refinance my house knows how much I owe on it. Number two, do they really think that Uncle Sam is going to listen in on every single overseas call made? Has the government nothing better to do.
They love to quote Benjamin Franklin’s, “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” Well, I can’t help but wonder what old Benny would say in the face of today’s threat.
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The problem, as usual, is the language. If they want to listen in to someone’s phone that they know is a terrorist to see who he calls, I have no problem with that. On both sides, the rhetoric is stilting. The libs (and those of us who like to protect what few liberties we actually have left) fear the excuses made in order to follow phone calls around the country. “Well, terrorist A called person B, and so we listened in on person B as he called C1, C2, and C3. Well, down the line, F7 wound up going to a mosque, so we’re bringing the whole bunch in for questioning.”
When, it turns out, surprise surprise, the odds of someone who’s muslim calling someone who calls people who then call other people that one of all those people turn out to be muslim.
This administration, and many others in the past, have had no problem interpreting things in their best interests. Because of that, we have to keep the language as though Hillary had the White House, Reid had an eighty-vote Senate, and Pelosi had a four hundred seat house.
Given that situation, write the law you are willing to let them stand by.