Posted on 06/07/2013 7:41:06 AM PDT by Perseverando
As details of President Obama’s massive domestic spying operation continue to dribble out into the public domain, the Left for the most part is quiet and content.
Left-wingers are unable even to entertain the idea that Obama, who billed himself on the campaign trail as a champion of civil liberties, is a power-mad authoritarian who views the Constitution as worthless parchment.
Obama promised:
“no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient.”
But that was then when Obama was still just a senator.
The Obama administration’s spying is ostensibly aimed at combating al-Qaeda and protecting America from attack.
But today the relentless cries of “fascism!” we heard all throughout George W. Bush’s presidency are absent. There are no riots in the streets. No rowdy Occupy Wall Street-sponsored demonstrations. No candlelight vigils.
When news of Obama’s warrantless surveillance program on steroids broke this week, except for Al Gore, Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers, and a handful of the more utopian leftists, the Left has been largely silent on these abuses.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who turns 80 this month, seems to be suffering from retrograde amnesia, having tossed away her worries about the NSA program. The senator defended the program, which is much more far-reaching that anything Bush ever dreamed of, saying “I think people want the homeland kept safe to the extent we can.”
Just seven years ago, Feinstein angrily denounced President Bush for his warrantless surveillance program. “I believe we are on our way to a major constitutional confrontation on Fourth Amendment guarantees of unreasonable search and seizure.”
As recently as March,
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But...but...this is the same guy who told us the WOT is over!!
Right?
But...but...this is the same guy who told us the WOT is over!!
Right?
People are forgetting that this government has identified Tea Partiers, gun control advocates and other conservatives as “terrorists”. When we read that the phone spying efforts were aimed at rooting out terrorists and their networks, I do not think that the government thinks that “terrorist” means what we think it means. I think that they wanted to monitor US calling patterns to identify conservatives and their allies.
One day Google went to the government and said look what we can do, do you want some of this? Pay us. I wonder of the billions they earn how much is paid by NSA, or such. This is dirty, dirty, dirty..... On so many levels.
The Liberals are not upset because they know that they are on the “side” of the President. Why would they worry? All this info gathering will just let the government keep an eye on those racist tea-partiers right?
This mentality is being shown to be true....look at the IRS scandal....they only targeted conservatives.
The Individuals in the Congress have forgotten their own individual thoughts , their own individual knowledge of right and wrong and have established the Borg.
Obama right or wrong he is the leader.
Let us forget our own individual thoughts of right and wrong and stick with the leader.
They picked a piss-poor leader to be their Messiah.
Typical of Front page. They attack Obama again yet have never held a standard of defending the Constitution nor holding Bush and the GOP complicit in the growth of Gov’t and control.
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