Bush Calls Surveillance Legal, Necessary
This dumbass has got to go! It almost makes you wish that the terrorists would blow up something big in the US to get him the heck out of the way.
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January 23rd, 2006
While I sympathize with your frustration, I suspect the sort of comment you made is precisely the sort of thing that paranoid, amoral folks like those often drawn to power, are looking for with their increasing surveillance and spying on citizens. The only things worth doing that I am aware are to get involved in politics, even if only to contact the various executive and legislative branches, locally, statewide, and federal, and to vote for someone rather than against someone. Typically, I don’t like either Democrat or Republican candidates on the ballot for a particular office, I will offer my vote for a 3rd party candidate in order to help them remain on the ballot. Most states have made it very difficult for 3rd party candidates to gain ballot access. Voting for them helps them retain that access. Encourage people you know to at least consider what sort of government they want to have, and whether those candidates and/or political parties are working to provide and sustain it. If they aren’t, those folks should consider voting for 3rd parties. I have some very cynical opinions about this country, its citizens, politicians, and prospects. I try to offer the above as an alternative to cynicism.
It would be very easy to get angry and frustrated over why it is that there isn’t more uproar over the spying on Americans by our government. I don’t know if that anger can be directed in a useful way that will bring an end to such abuses of power. I could talk about this for hours, but see little point.
January 24th, 2006
Yes it’s true I shouldn’t have started name calling. I’d had the news on for about an hour and got to hear this subject over and over from all the usual suspects: Republicans who support it, Republicans who are against it, Democrats who are against it but yet are still in favor of electronic surveillance on the whole(which is surprising), People in the street, Polls showing that more Americans don’t care if they are surveilled at the whim of some paranoid cowboy with a civil service job.
It seems like the few who really care are not in position to do anything about it. The tear was when they played Bush’s speech from yesterday, and I found this web page…
The cooler head is prevailing now and will probably continue to do so until it doesn’t again.
January 24th, 2006
I was actually joking about that, though I dare say it really isn’t funny given some of the tactics to limit dissenting views that have been enacted by this administration. Avoidance of stress from the stupid, the craven, and repetitious are why I don’t watch TV news, and why I limit my radio to no more than an hour per day. I do read the web site of the local newspaper daily. The Democrats, sad to say, have abdicated their role as an opposition party. They bring nothing to the table of substance, and it has been that way, for the most part, since Lyndon Johnson’s presidency. As I recall, you had two primary complaints against Senator Kerry when he ran against President Bush: He has a past that indicates he is no more opposed to spying on citizens than President Bush, and when given opportunities to articulate an alternative to Candidate Bush’s proposals, offered nothing. He seemed content merely to naysay anything his opponent offered. Empty, vacuous, and essentially worthless is the best way I can describe his candidacy. In jest, I have made the case for conspiracy, with the Democrats and Republicans putting on opposing faces to make things look competitive and more interesting, while they really have insured that their mutual interests are served; ie, pleasing sponsors, patrons, and corporate masters. I tend to disdain conspiracy theory as the first grasp by weak minds at seeking understanding of an unpleasant situation. So long as most of the citizenry can be kept frightened, confused, ill-informed, and sufficiently distracted, government will not improve.