Congress gives Bush administration more eavesdropping leeway
...the attorney general and the director of national intelligence (are granted) the authority to approve all wiretaps, even if one party is in the United States, with minimal court oversight.
Let's see, a president who has distinguished himself as being the worst president in US history, grabbing power at every opportunity, foisting an illegal and immoral war on the American people and the Iraqi people, and an attorney general whose sole purpose is greasing the wheels of the worst president. This dynamo of destruction can now legally wiretap you.
Next a Congress which was elected to put a stop to the worst president's 'policy' disgraces, hands that same worst president more unchecked power. Can you make a recommendation for another country to move to?
George Bush and Gonzales are in your bedroom, computer, phone, bank records, health records, driving records, credit card records, pretty much anything that has a document or physical structure. Smile for the cameras. Hey they can't read your mind, quite yet, so cheer up.
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They can't? I think they've been tapping my shrinks ph. and reading her e-mails as well. She says I'm paranoid. But, in Amerika paranoia just means ur normal, right?
The trouble with the news is that the more you pay attention to it, the uglier it becomes, pretty much each day. Eventaully you put two and two together and larger pictures start emerging. There are many American myths that on the surface appear as solid but there is a power elite behind the curtain.
Politics is still only one layer out of the whole of society. So we all try to cultivate all of the many other layers that foster a decent culture and decent society.
Part of the purpose of the power elite is to create helplessness. If we are helpless and overwhelmed then we become inactive, uninvolved, and afraid.
I was reading a typical piece of "power elite" nonsense by one of the more disgusting neo-cons that passes himself off as a journalist a guy named Jonah Goldberg. Its title "Are too many Americans simply too uninformed to vote?" The premise is that only the intellectual elite should be allowed too vote. But the real subtext is that voting itself should be restricted to "elites" period and that those "elites" should decide just who they are and what information should be required to pass the bar to be allowed to vote. Sound familiar? Back in the heydays of Jim Crow such laws existed all over the south to stop KNEE GROWS from voting. Made perfect sense back then KNEE GROWS had no education or money and they certainly didn't belong to any elites thats for sure so zip no vote. NEXT! Mr. Goldberg in short hates the fact that people vote in this country that don't come up to HIS and his elites standards for voting whatever they might be this month. The Right is preparing America for a trip back to the days when ONLY those with property could vote in this country. Oh, Jonah wants a democracy but a GREEK style one say 500 BC style when only men of property and privilege got to cast a ballot. Everyone else wasn't even considered. Once we start back down Jonah's slippery slope of trying to determine who should be able to vote and who shouldn't it gets real ugly real fast. Oh and I bet Jonah wants his new SCOTUS majority to set up the slope we can slide down. We start down this path and CIVIL WAR can't be too far off.
"The premise is that only the intellectual elite should be allowed too vote. But the real subtext is that voting itself should be restricted to "elites" period"
There's a lot of Leo Strauss in that. Yes indeed.
Yes, indeed. Jonah is a charter member of the Straussian club. Disgusting people with no morals beyond grabbing whatever they can and smashing anyone that gets in their way. They dress us their greed and their arrogance by hiring legions of creatures like Jonah and giving them titles and $$ and having them write these little self serving rants. The MSM spreads this bile on a daily basis and calls it journalism but in reality its really just agitprop for the Ministry of Truth isn't it?
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