President Invading our Privacy ?
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All of us do, it's just that some out there think that's his "right" and he's using his "right" to "protect" our lives.\n\nOthers of us have been sure Big Bro has been checking on us for years, and it's amusing to us that the rest act surprised.\nWhat can we really do about it?\nWe have voted for the otherside in elections, only to have some technical difficulty get Dubya, and his puppet master Cheney, into office.\nAll that's left to do is wait for this to bother the Reps as much as it bothers the Dems and maybe we'll see some change. Have to say it's not looking too good.
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Privacy is an illusion.\n\nCourts can subpeona for any information.\n\nAre you trying to not pay for your kids?
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He is doing all his evil in his own selfish interest and in the interest of his cronies and wealthy supporters.\n\n-----------------------\nAND NOW AN ASIDE TO loving_father: \nWE ALL HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE. For example, I am sure you do not want every stranger in the world to know your actual name, home address, name of that precious little girl in your avatar picture, and the name of the school she goes to. Not to mention your credit card numbers, banking information, and so on.\n\nI certainly know that I do not want the general public to know any of that about me and mine.\n\nSo, yes, we ALL have things to hide, and for perfectly good reasons. I am sure I have met more NSA employees than most people have. They are, on the whole, intelligent, honest, fine, upstanding folks, but they are also, for the most part, underpaid and overworked. And many of them spend too much time with the less than desirable elements of our society. In other words, the same factors that make good cops go bad are in operation at the NSA too.\n\nI really don't need some NSA wiretapper to decide to go phishing while I am giving out credit or banking info on the phone. Why even tempt them with that? Better that they should just keep their ears out of our phone lines without a warrant, just as God and the 4th Amendment intended.
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Let's not be naive, what is right or legal will not stop those with power from learning what they want to know. Our technological advances in the field of communications have presented an irresistible opportunity for those with power to abuse our rights. Our only hope for the future is that these powers are somewhat benevolent torward us. The only place you can know,... really know, that you have privacy, is the thoughts in your head.
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Maybe you should be more careful about posting your personal information, hon.  You just never know.  Stay safe.
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Public figures do deserve the same degree of privacy as we do.   However, the exception is, whenever they are in public...it is public.   They can never share our level of privacy when shopping at the mall or eating at a fast food restaurant.   If  George Bush decides to throw his milkshake at a waitress, then it needs to hit the national news.  If you do the same thing, it doesn't even have to ever be mentioned.    I don't think we have the right to know what a public figure is doing 24/7 or within the confines of their homes, unless they make it public.   If Angelina Jolie wants to walk around her house naked with the windows open and shades drawn, then by all means she's inviting the public in.    I don't believe the paparazzi should go to the limits they go to when getting pictures and such, but photo ops are photo ops.
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Good Luck, because that would be an Invasion of Privacy for the people whom work there.  Check out Freedom of Information Law or Act. FOIL or FOIA
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IT'S FISHY.\n\nBUT THIS IS THE COVERUP ADMINISTRATION.
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Apparently it is, seeing as, since it has become known that he has been spying on citizens without warrants, his ratings have shot up.\n\nI agree with you, our personal freedoms are going down the hole because of his crusade, but the people don't seem to care.\n\nIn response to melvin's answer, I just wanted to say that I don't think anyone has a problem with the government spying on non-citizens, it's citizens we have a problem with. He should be getting warrants to gather information about citizens' activity. He can even do it after the fact in FISA court, but he's decided that's not good enough.
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Seriously we don't. The Gov. been into our freedom long before the Patriot Act., to know our every move all they need is our SS# ( I remember when this was only used to get a job, now you better know it without looking at it or you're not who you say you are).  Congress knowing this and to (as if they were doing us a favor) look good denied the extention.
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someone or thing trying to take your privacy away.
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Basicly, we have no rights left. The government can take away all of our privacy, and it's "legal" under this bill.
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I'm ashamed you have a computer punk boy everyone jot this name down. I have sent his IP address and name onto FBI and Homeland Security. He is posting many anti-American spouts and they will check on him.
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i know from my time in the navy you can be court marshaled for saying corrupt things about the president and any other high ranking officals. if i remember it right its borderline treason, which according to military law you can be put to death for. and for those that dont know the NSA tracks everything you do on the internet, its included with the patriot act. so anything you say wrong about the president or the government is tracked and logged. and then anytime you log on it red flags your ip address so you can be tracked online.
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president@whitehouse.gov be careful what you say.
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Ben Franklin said that "Those who give up liberty for the sake of security deserve neither liberty nor security."  \n\nI'm not sure if we will end up learning this the hard way, but we are becoming the USSA.  Wiretaps are part of a larger arsenal of tactics they are using to silence dissent.  It is likely that more sinister black ops programs exist that are tracking every one of us to some extent.  Think about every credit card purchase, every rewards card, every post on Yahoo Answers, every search engine search result, every survey, and every Amazon purchase or wish list being compiled and analyzed for keywords and other algorithm triggering events.  It is absolutely possible, and I would bet that it is happening now whether legal or not.  I believe it is completely antithetical to the definition of a "free" society, and I again believe it is to ultimately be used for more sinister purposes.
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I have actually thought about this sort of thing.  I always wondered why people were so ready to excuse Bill Clinton when he had an affair and lied under oath.  People said, "Oh, it's just sex."  Or, "It's his personal life."  Well, we wouldn't want that happening to us in our own homes, so I don't know why we would accept it from the leader of our country.  I think we need to hold people in power to an even higher expectation.