Sunday, April 30, 2006
"Spying on American Citizens"
What would you call an FBI surveillance of Timothy McVeigh (if such surveillance had occurred before his bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma)?
-- "Spying on American citizens"
…and, if they didn't get a warrant to conduct such surveillance?
-- Preventing mass murder.
I don't care if the FBI or NSA evesdrops on the phone calls and e-mails of some guy named Mohammad who is from the Middle East and keeps contacting an Al Queda friend in Pakistan -- "spying on American Citizens" - yeah, right.
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Follow- up....
Times change. While what I wrote a few years ago is still true, the reality of government organizations far overstepping the scope of authority and purpose has become all too obvious.
People like Edward Snowden may or may not be heroes, but what they've gleaned regarding the corruption of origional intent is a gift to those of us who still favor a free society. The drones (no pun intended) of state need to be put back into their well- concieved constitutional constraints.
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Times change. While what I wrote a few years ago is still true, the reality of government organizations far overstepping the scope of authority and purpose has become all too obvious.
People like Edward Snowden may or may not be heroes, but what they've gleaned regarding the corruption of origional intent is a gift to those of us who still favor a free society. The drones (no pun intended) of state need to be put back into their well- concieved constitutional constraints.
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