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George W. Bush continues to destroy privacy rights
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Posted on 12/30/2012 10:01:02 AM PST by chessplayer

One of the sad, lasting legacies of the previous administration was the destruction of personal liberty and privacy which followed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Washington began treating everyone as a suspect, prying into private phone conversations and recording your every move. Unfortunately, though he’s been out of office for more than four years and working with injured veterans on a remote Texas ranch, George W. Bush continues to hold America under his intrusive thumb.

Congress approved a measure Friday that would renew expansive U.S. surveillance authority for five more years, rejecting objections from senators who are concerned the legislation does not adequately protect Americans’ privacy.

The bill passed the Senate 73 to 23…

The lopsided Senate vote authorized a continuation of the government’s ability to eavesdrop on communications inside the United States involving foreign citizens without obtaining a specific warrant for each case.

For the life of me, I can’t figure out how Bush pulled this one off. (I mean, it has to be his fault, right? It couldn’t be the Democrats.) Seventy five votes in the Senate? When the Democrats have more than half the seats and the Majority Leader’s chair? Democrats hate this stuff! It’s the destruction of the American dream. But we can at least take some comfort knowing that President Obama will swat this down like a diseased tsetse fly.

The House approved it in September and President Obama is expected to sign it before the current authority expires on Monday.


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KEYWORDS: doublestandard; hypocrisy; mediabias; obamunism
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To: 353FMG

No, it wasn’t unjustified. There were Japanese on the West Coast working with the enemy. Also, interning them protected them - they were obvious targets of retribution after the attack on Pearl Harbor.


21 posted on 12/30/2012 12:26:46 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: 353FMG

No, it wasn’t unjustified. There were Japanese on the West Coast working with the enemy. Also, interning them protected them - they were obvious targets of retribution after the attack on Pearl Harbor.


22 posted on 12/30/2012 12:27:04 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: RIghtwardHo
The patriot Act killed America. And yet SO many here supported it.

Yup.

And many who didn't were suspended or banned.

23 posted on 12/30/2012 12:28:46 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Stepan12

No. Osama Bin Laden was Emmanuel Goldstein. Our own government created a boogey man to scare us all into giving up our rights. We need to protect you against Osama Bin Laden, they said! If we don’t have warrantless wiretaps, constant surveillance, intrusive and offensive searches by the TSA, and a hundred other indignities, Osama will get us!

What a load of crap. I believed Bush at the time, but now I have come to realize that he and Obama serve the same NWO master. Osama died in 2001 of kidney failure. They milked his ghost for 10 years in order to steal as much of our freedom as they could. Now we cant get it back. The last piece will be the banning and seizure of all firearms in the USA. Once they take our guns, there will be no way to resist the NWO. Welcome to slavery, courtesy of the Republican and Democrat parties. Traitors all.


24 posted on 12/30/2012 1:20:25 PM PST by Astronaut
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To: RIghtwardHo

Sorry for being so lengthy-—This is just the way I am thinking at this time, if anyone is interested....Learning and education has always been an ongoing intensive project with me. “Reason and Faith” can never be separated and is what I contemplated on for most of 2012.

The Republican and Democratic parties are part of the Dialectical Materialism of Marxism. (To force us into the right direction—the “utopian” state).

All our information and “education” since John Dewey (1930) is a bunch of mush—to destroy morality and Reason—especially in children so they will be useful idiots when they grow up. It took decades to get rid of the Classical Thinkers who used to run the schools prior to Dewey. It was easy to do in England and much easier in France where Classicism and Virtue (God) was always mocked by the elite and culture since Voltaire. We really didn’t allow mocking God until the late 60’s in MSM. The morality of our children was undermined by Kinsey and Hugh Hefner and the mixing of Freud with Marx by the Cultural Marxists who infiltrated and corrupted university students— and the Supreme Court helped.

Without Virtue (the reason for education since Plato, until Dewey), there can be no freedom for any society. There can be no civil society—no trust.

It is all a facade—we are living in an Alice in Wonderland Postmodernist World. We are being manipulated into this “utopian” (immoral) state by irrational, evil people. All ideas today, given a platform, are being controlled by a few evil elite. You will be killed—like Brietbart—if you get too powerful—and are no longer a useful person to move society to the totalitarian state. If you promote Truth in a efficient way-—you will be destroyed. Notice that Rush will not tackle certain evil—irrational concepts—in an efficient way—like homosexual “marriage”. He wouldn’t touch it for years and it is the easiest way to destroy Reason and Virtue in children— when they are taught to have “Pride” in sodomy.

Rush’s silence in the late 80’’s and 90’s allowed a generation of children to be brainwashed in schools and by MSM to think sodomy is normal. It destroys Virtue easily. Totally flips Good and Evil in America—even since the 1960’s.

With Rush—there was an illusion of Truth—although he skirted the most fundamental issues when determining Virtue, the necessary ingredient of Freedom (as noted in all Classical philosophy). Sure, Rush hits some Truth—not saying he doesn’t-—but he was allowed an important, influential platform for decades for a reason. He was used because of the necessity of the “boiling pot” philosophy of the frog. It pacified us enough to allow the Leftist drift into totalitarianism-—so we would have no ability to exit the slave state which our Constitution originally protected us from along with our Classical education system—but has been totally destroyed now. Education was destroyed with Dewey. “Truth” was controlled by Marxist elites like Dr. Rugg and Dr. Counts and hundreds of Fabian Socialists like the sodomite John Maynard Keynes and Marcuse who infiltrated all positions of power in society.

Nothing is an accident in post 1930’s USA. Probably even before that —but it was easier to actually live after you went off the Reservation—although not for political leaders and bankers and people in charge of curricula in schools or publishing houses or Hollywood or scientists who found evidence that conflicted with the agenda, or judges that didn’t come to the “correct” conclusions.

The Satanic elites eject Judeo-Christian morality which is the most rational religion on earth. Christianity created The Age of Reason. (Most Christianity today is a joke—as Pastor Bonhoeffer even noted in 1931 in America, which he referred to as “Religionless” Christianity). Even the Catholic Church was infiltrated and taken down by Vatican II—which it may never recover from. Pope Pius X wrote about the infiltration in 1907 in his encyclicals.

The few banking elite use the Right/Left paradigm to force a synthesis-—always towards a totalitarian state. They had to erase the Constitution to do this in America-—but it is done-—and was done in Europe long ago.

It is Marx’s dream-—to destroy God and the Natural Family-—the concept of mother and father in children—erase all Traditions and Reason (Classical ideas)-——then the children believe “snow is black”, Good is Evil and will accept slavery as good.

The “Ministry of Truth” is possible with non-thinking, irrational zombies and lack of Freedom of information—Lack of Truth (God)-—there is no Reason—because all Reason has some Faith-—and if it is not in our God—it is in Satan.

We are no longer a Nation under God=and he was deliberately removed from the schools decades ago through Rule of Law-to remove the Christian God from the worldview of children.

Isn’t it funny that the principle of Rule of Law-—is that there is a Higher Law than man-made-up law (Legal Positivism) which has usurped our legal system and destroyed it—because they have destroy our Ethical system that our Constitution enshrined. All White Noise in the media-—unless they are a Brietbart. It is extremely hard to sort the chaff from the wheat but it takes education and time-—which because of the bread and circuses and taxes and all the Lies in MSM—few people have time to actually get educated.

Education (not indoctrination) of our children will be the only way to save this nation. It may be too late. I do not claim to “know” the Truth-—no one here on earth can——but education never is ending and some “truths” have been proven more successful and “good” for mankind—than others. True history—proves it. Revised history is what your children are getting in public schools.....Lies-—it destroys their foundation of knowledge-—so they will never be able to Reason.


25 posted on 12/30/2012 1:26:54 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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