Re: Best comment from Judge Vinson's decision

On 2011-02-09 07:17:11 -0800, Mickey <Mickey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Having said that, the government is going to spy on whoever it wants,
whenever it wants to. If it's illegal, well then so be it. Right now,
the government is hoovering up essentially all internet traffic passing
through the main US us switching centers. It's been going on for years.
Yet another program started under Bush that Obama continued.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619

Echelon began long before Bush.

'60s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence)

And, while I was all bitchy about Bush when he trampled the constitution (esp 4th amend), Obama's promise to "make it better", followed by his making things "better" for the police state and far worse for citizens is absolutely crazy-making.

I don't think we can pin all this cloak & dagger crap on the (R)s, as the left would like to. The main difference is that the spying (R)s say "damned straight I'm spying on you", while the anti-constitution (D)s say "oh no -- nothing to see here, move along. Hey, look! Bush/Reagan/Nixon is burning a flag over there -- what a bigot!"

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