The Need to Know

N Y Times ^ | 08/11/2007

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Like many in this country who were angered when Congress rushed to rubber-stamp a bill giving President Bush even more power to spy on Americans, we took some hope from the vow by Congressional Democrats to rewrite the new law after summer vacation. The chance of undoing the damage is slim, unless the White House stops stonewalling and gives lawmakers and the public the information they need to understand this vital issue.

[Phlap]

I love the last paragraph.

If Mr. Bush wants Americans to give him and his successors the power to spy on them at will, Americans should be allowed to know why it’s supposedly so necessary and how much their freedoms are being abridged. If Congress once again allows itself to be cowed by Mr. Bush’s fear-mongering, it must accept responsibility for undermining the democratic values that separate this nation from the terrorists that Mr. Bush claims to be fighting.

It's so necessary because of first Trade Center attack, the Africa embassies, the Kobar Towers, the Cole, 9/11 just to name a few and he is killing as many as he can as fast as he can within reason.

[OCC]

If Mr. Bush wants Americans to give him and his successors the power to spy on them at will

Talk about fear-mongering! The NYT knows exactly what is involved in this authority, but refuses to report it accurately.

[P-40]

gives lawmakers and the public the information they need to understand this vital issue.

With all the information that is out there now...if they aren't getting it...they never will.

[ClaireSolt]

Coming soon, your reporter who leaked this story is indicted, tried, and goes to jail.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Damned Marxists...they WANT the Terrorists to successfully attack the country again!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We also agree with the American Civil Liberties Union, ...

Of course they agree ...they have the same objectives....

There is a book (now available in paperback ):

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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
(Hardcover)
by David Horowitz

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And reviews:

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Editorial Reviews

Rich Lowry, Editor National Review

David Horowitz is synonymous with pyrotechnics. A historian and polemicist of the first order, he is paid the ultimate compliment --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Davis Hanson, Author, Ripples of Battle

An original look at those who want us to fail in the Middle East, both at home and abroad. The --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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See all Editorial Reviews

Fascinating Analysis of Leftist Goals, August 13, 2006

Reviewer: N. Sincerity - See all my reviews

A former 1960s radical, Horowitz is well-acquainted with the Leftist mindset. In this book, he strives to explain the modern alliance between left wing progressivists and radical Islamofascists. He argues that this alliance is based on a common desire to destroy Western capitalism. Leftist sympathy with Islamofascist ideas makes no sense from an intellectual point of view, given that countries ruled by radical Islamists are among the most racist, sexist, theocratic states in the world today. However, Leftists have recognized that they can benefit politically from destructive terrorist attacks on the Western world. A West under attack can be made to turn on its leaders in fear and desperation (as they did in Spain after the Madrid train bombings). Only once people reject current government structures can the Left execute its anti-capitalist revolution and build a new reality that mirrors the Leftist view of utopia.

The complete and utter idealogical hypocrisy of the Islamofascist-Leftist alliance is distressing, but as Horowitz reminds us,

Leftists radicals truly believe the ends justify the means.

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[RightWhale]

Here’s the rule: if you don’t already know, you don’t have the need to know.