Posted on 06/11/2013 9:54:01 PM PDT by Mount Athos
This surveillance scandal arises out of our national bipartisan unwillingness to face the reality of Islamic jihad. Because we all agree that Islam is a religion of peace, we can't possibly address where the threat is really coming from, and monitor mosques or subject Muslims with Islamic supremacist ties to greater surveillance. Instead, we have to pretend that anyone and everyone is a potential terrorist, and surveil everyone. Our freedoms and privacy are now at risk because of our refusal to admit the truth about Islam.
People who leak classified information need to be punished, but Snowden is more of a whistleblower, akin to a Soviet dissident working against an all-encompassing government. It is good that it came out that they're watching our every move, reading all our emails, etc. It needed to come out because it needs to stop if we are going to have any chance of surviving as a free people and not becoming a totalitarian state in which every slave of the authoritarian rulers is under constant surveillance.
"White House disputes comparisons to Bush amid leak scandal," by Dave Boyer for The Washington Times, June 10:
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Embarrassed by national-security leaks of historic proportions, the White House rebutted accusations Monday by the disillusioned former government contractor who leaked the surveillance secrets that President Obama is no different than President George W. Bush in his anti-terrorism tactics.
As a debate raged over whether the leaker, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, is a hero or a criminal, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said there was no reason for Mr. Snowden to have been disappointed in Mr. Obama.
“The president’s record on making the kinds of changes that he promised he would make to the ways that we pursue our fight against al Qaeda and our fight against terrorists and extremists, he has lived up to,” Mr. Carney said....
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How? By pretending that everyone in the country is a member of al-Qaeda?
Exactly. There is no probable cause to monitor every American citizen. But narrowing the search would require profiling. Maybe evening closing the borders.
Exactly. There is no probable cause to monitor every American citizen. But narrowing the search would require profiling. Maybe evening closing the borders.
Until they change the queeranus, there will be WAR!
PS they aint gonna change the queeranus!
This instruction manual of murder, mayhem, and misogyny and even commands them to LIE like a Hussein!
Very true and with open borders these very politicians are not truly solving but a mess that they have allowed for a very long time. Border security should be the number one goal of any immigration reform.
I’ve often wondered...Did the 911 attackers know that we ourselves would complete the job of destroying the USA and our liberties after their attack because of our willfully blind obeisance to PC?
Don't look at me....
Monitoring Mosques as to hate speech from Imams and to networking by visitors would seem to be a valuable concentration of effort.
Well, Bill Errs and his commie wife still represent a threat.
Yep.
So is all the bullsh*t that goes on at the airport.
If someone, anyone, would just speak it out - “Hey, it’s the Arabs, stupid!” then all those jams would come to an end overnight and the lines would start flowing along again.
But, no - Americans need their horse sh*t fantasies, and Granny’s gonna sneak TNT onto the plane in her drawers.
Yep...every time I wait in those security lines, all I can think of is “Those Effing Muslims. How stupid are we for not focusing on the real source of the problem.”
Let’s blame the Bush NeoCons and the Obama NeoCommies for their idiot spouting about the Religion of Peace and the stupidity of Invade & Invite the ME Islamics into this country. They should both hang!
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