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Originally Posted by Jack1.0
I know that people are frightened of the loss of privacy that they think this represents but I have to wonder if people realize what is at stake here. Terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda are trying to acquire nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, and they want to detonate these weapons inside America where the casualties could be MILLIONS of DEATHS.
I don’t care if the NSA discovers that I only call my mother twice a month, if they can track and discover a plot to detonate a nuclear bomb in LA, New York, or Atlanta. How many TFP’rs do we know that live in or near these prime targets?
Unfortunately now the press has show the terrorists the phone company to change to if they don't want to have their calling patterns analyzed.
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Are the NY Times & USA Today reporters and editors who publicly reported the warrantless NSA domestic wire tapping and the telephone company secret handover of our private phone call billing records to the NSA, the U.S.government employees who leaked the details to the newspapers, and VP Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who leaked the name of a classified CIA operative to news reporters, <b>all helping the "bad people"?</b>
They must all really hate America.
Now that the terrorists have been tipped off not to make phone calls, can we go back to having the government follow the law, and honor the 4th amendment requirement that judges review the evidence and issue search warrants where they deem government requests to be appropriate?
Since this crisis demands that we all trade our freedom for security if we have any hope of thwarting the terrorists, wouldn't a live feed video camera installed by and monitored by local police in every private home....just to make sure that none of us are sheltering a terrorist...or two....and brief, thrice weekly polygraph tests, administered to each of us, for convenience sake....by our mailman or at a table at the entrance to our Wal-mart, and on Sunday at our church......just to make sure that none of us are lying about not having any terrorist connections....be just the ticket to help president Bush seperate us loyal citizens from the bad people?