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May 12, 2006

We Like to Watch. And Listen. And Read.

by AltHippo @ 10:11 am. Filed under Bush, NSA Spying

To answer your question in advance, yes, I saw the article in the Post-It-Note that said folks, by a considerable margin (63-35), had no problem with NSA having access to their phone records.

My first reaction to this is really? You mean that less than 24 hours after the story breaks, the average American understands the nature of this program? And that same 24 hours has been enough to not only grasp the technical implications, but also to digest the ethical ramifications? And, to conclude in the balance, that the current administration has their best interests at heart, and can without political jaundice competently execute such a program?

If the answer to all this is yes, then surely Bush, in the person of one of his lackies, can get approval under FISA. Because, surely, if the American people believe that this program wouldn’t be used for, say, spying on political enemies, then it should be legal.

Right?

I’ll add that I looked through some of the Who’s Blogging links on the article, and was shocked to see what some of my fellow Americans were writing:

What could possibly cause someone to think someone like that, much less openly publish it on the internet? Is this the right’s version of Bush Derangement Syndrome?

Hopefully, the Post-It-Note will follow up by writing a piece on the paranoid delusions of the rightie blogosphere. (I’ll sit by the computer, waiting for it to come out)

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2 Responses to “We Like to Watch. And Listen. And Read.”

  1. Bulworth Says:
    May 12th, 2006 at 1:32 pm

    The only solution is to elect a Democrat president in 2008 and continue the sying program and thus allow the Rush Limbaugh wing of the Republican Party and Faux News to condemn it as an invasion of privacy, a hideous example of Democratic big gubmit, and a threat to peace loving Americans everywhere.

  2. KCinDC Says:
    May 12th, 2006 at 3:53 pm

    It’s true they’d condemn it, but they wouldn’t see any contradiction between their position then and their position now (any more than Republican senators see any contradiction between their blocking of Clinton’s appointees and their frothing outrage about “unconstitutional” attempts to block Bush’s), and they’d turn on a dime when a Republican president was elected again. The underlying philosophy is IOKIYAR.

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