Don’t be so sure
that by electing a for this year that your government will turn around and start respecting the and the . As we “speak” legislation is being prepared that will make the and look like a High School Commencement Addresses by comparison.
is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on s look like a “walk in the park,” according to an interview published in the New Yorker’s print edition today.
Debate on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act “will be a walk in the park compared to this,” McConnell said. “this is going to be a goat rope on the Hill. My prediction is that we’re going to screw around with this until something horrendous happens.”
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McConnell is developing a , still in the draft stage, which will closely police .
“, who is working with McConnell on the plan, said that would mean giving the government the authority to examine the of any , r or ,” author Lawrence Wright pens.
“Google has records that could help in a , he said,” Wright adds. “Giorgio warned me, ‘We have a saying in this business: ‘Privacy and security are a .’”
A zero-sum game is one in which gains by one side come at the expense of the other. In other words — McConnell’s aide believes greater security can only come at privacy’s expense.
I don’t see or saying no to this. , and maybe yes, Clinton and Obama probably not and more so not in the case of Clinton. The Democrats have shown themselves to be spineless. Easy and apparently willing victims of GOP security smear tactics. They’ve been in power in both houses for awhile now and they have done nothing, a big fat zero, to counteract the GOP. Bush still gets whatever he wants with only the most token opposition. I see no leadership on the Democratic side, and in particular none from the leading candidates. Kiss good bye to what few freedoms you have.
The Democrats have not learned their lesson. Politics is not about co-operation it is about . Trying to co-operate with the GOP is akin to asking a kleptomaniac to hold your wallet for you, t’aint going to happen. It will always be the illusion of two steps forward with the reality of three steps back. has been an utter disappointment as speaker of the house. Her refusal to let those few Dems who do have guts to go after Cheney then Bush has been an enormous mistake. Does she honestly think that if the situation were reversed the GOP would hesitate for a microsecond? Hello! Clinton, blow job, no ones business, a gazillion tax payer dollars later, I don’t think so. Failure to reap revenge, and by doing so do what is right, does not impress your average Joe and Jane voter, it makes you look weak and the weak can not lead the meanest, toughest, best armed, war mongering, imperialistic nation in the world in their eyes.
