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Originally Posted by stevo
This thread doesn't have anything to do with that. we have 5 previous pages on this thread about how bush broke the law by authorizing wiretaps. I've read the links you posted before. We've discussed them before. When the secret service is called because someone has a suspicion they have to check it out. Thats their job. If you notice, the only instance where the secret service came without being notified by another party beforehand was the library case. Book's on a list, person's background is suspicious, so they check it out. No one was beaten or thrown in prison. And none of that has anything to do with bush authorizing wiretaps.
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I disagree, I think it sets a disturbing pattern, especially the one you point out about the book and library..... and there were a few on there that were news to me, so if they were debated here I missed them.
Anytime we have "books" on any freaking list that makes the government take notice, becomes a time when government has become too powerful and too "big brother-ish".
It is apparent reading these, the taps and other items that have been posted in the past..... that Bush is using whatever powers he has not just to combat terrorism but for his own gains and at his own whims.
These are interesting times indeed, they are scary, intriguing and yet overall the same as any other, yet we make them to be bigger than they are, because we wish to be a part of history. The problem with making them bigger than they are..... is that sometimes they become self fulfilling prophecies, sometimes they are bigger than we make them, because we focus on something else and sometimes things are truly as bad and as big as we make them, yet seem too outlandish and too big to believe.
Bush's Administration, I fear falls into all of the above scenarios, with a heavy dose of the latter scenario.