So, I am sitting in my car one day and I realize damn! I am an adult, a succesful on said adult. When did that happen? I thought I was a tard the last time I checked.
If anyone is causing a downfall in America it's the media
New York Times...your so brilliant that you forgot your own opinion.
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Marie, love, the point of the article isn't that the program exists. The program has been public for some time now.( http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/06/reports_of_us_monitoring_of_sw.php ) The story is that there is absolutely no oversight on this process. Any halfway informed terrorist was aware of SWIFT. In the same way they were all aware that they shouldn't be talking on phone lines, etc... But the administration has developed a habit lately of simply spying on anyone they feel like (eg. NSA wiretaps, Datamining). This is in violation of our 4th amendment rights. We, as citizens of a democracy have a right to know what our government is doing. Is it a bad thing when the media informs the voters of the actions of their government? Even the supreme court toe branch of our government is overstepping it's bounds.( http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/supreme-court-rejects-guantanamo-trials/20060629084609990002 ) It's shocking that we're falling for the trap of blaming the media for telling us what our own government is up to. This is exactly why we HAVE a free presss. So they can say the things the government doesn't want them to. I'll use the argument that the executive branch has been giving me for the past year "If you're not doing anything wrong, why should you be bothered if people are reporting on it?"
Thomas, I was going with the fact that 5 years ago they wrote about wanting a program such as SWIFT. Now that there is a program, they are writing against it. It's a situation of damn if you do damn if you don't. As far as the SWIFT program, everything about it is legal: It's an issue about keying in those who the program is trying to target. Goes back to the argument when Gerarldo Rivera drew the map in the sand. It's legal, but preemptive tactics shouldn't be shared until after the result.
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Marie, love, the point of the article isn't that the program exists. The program has been public for some time now.( http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/06/reports_of_us_monitoring_of_sw.php ) The story is that there is absolutely no oversight on this process. Any halfway informed terrorist was aware of SWIFT. In the same way they were all aware that they shouldn't be talking on phone lines, etc... But the administration has developed a habit lately of simply spying on anyone they feel like (eg. NSA wiretaps, Datamining). This is in violation of our 4th amendment rights. We, as citizens of a democracy have a right to know what our government is doing. Is it a bad thing when the media informs the voters of the actions of their government? Even the supreme court toe branch of our government is overstepping it's bounds.( http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/supreme-court-rejects-guantanamo-trials/20060629084609990002 ) It's shocking that we're falling for the trap of blaming the media for telling us what our own government is up to. This is exactly why we HAVE a free presss. So they can say the things the government doesn't want them to. I'll use the argument that the executive branch has been giving me for the past year "If you're not doing anything wrong, why should you be bothered if people are reporting on it?"
Thomas, I was going with the fact that 5 years ago they wrote about wanting a program such as SWIFT. Now that there is a program, they are writing against it. It's a situation of damn if you do damn if you don't.
As far as the SWIFT program, everything about it is legal: It's an issue about keying in those who the program is trying to target. Goes back to the argument when Gerarldo Rivera drew the map in the sand. It's legal, but preemptive tactics shouldn't be shared until after the result.
now I'm curious who commented and then deleted...
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