Consider Obama's vote this week, which was in favor of prosecuting communications companies that assisted the government in wiretapping terrorists. Sure, the regulars will come out and claim that this was a vote in favor of our personal rights. But let's be sensible, enabling a whole new suite of lawsuits against American companies who are assisting the government in national security efforts does NOTHING to protect my rights. It may make a few lawyers richer, it might make things easier for terrorists, but my rights will still be the same.Need I remind everyone that our country is fighting a war, actually two war fronts and one more conceptual war. Historically, Americans have given up some liberties in times of war. Of course, this must be a temporary, and rare thing, and only done out of absolute necessity. We all know the old saying about those willing to give up freedom for security deserve neither. However, I just don't see the freedoms we are giving up, but I do see a real security issue.
The senator who voted in favor of the bill was Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who continues to demonstrate a solid understanding of national-security issues. The Democrat presidential candidates were not so astute: Sen. Barack Hussein Obama voted against reauthorizing the terrorist-surveillance program, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was too busy campaigning to vote at all.
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gee, I guess your rights are sooo small and insignificant that your individual liberities will get trampled on. But it does happen--big against the small--all in the name of "right thinking." There are plenty of avenue, vehicles, means to secure our country against external and internal threats--we have been during this for a couple of centuries now--without trying to sublimely erode civil liberties, by dividing the unaffected from the bludgeoned.
Well the avenues, means and vehicles you allude to but fail to be specific, did not help the 3000 who were killed by terrorists 9/11/01, did they?
meanwhile this report from Brussels:- Iran has "speeded up" rather than halted its nuclear bomb programme and has already set up a command and control centre near Tehran, an exiled Iranian opposition group claimed Wednesday. The unverified allegation contradicts a December report by the US intelligence claiming that the Iranian regime had stopped its nuclear weapons development programme in 2003.
Mohammad Mohaddessin, an official of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said in a statement issued in Brussels that the group had passed on the information to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and had asked it to send its inspectors to the site.
"Lack of firmness by the international community has offered the regime the opportunity to get closer to obtaining the atomic bomb," Mohaddessin said.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is destined for civilian rather than military means.
Mohaddessin also said the Iranian nuclear programme was being assisted by experts from North Korea.
meanwhile this report from Brussels:- Iran has "speeded up" rather than halted its nuclear bomb programme and has already set up a command and control centre near Tehran, an exiled Iranian opposition group claimed Wednesday. The unverified allegation contradicts a December report by the US intelligence claiming that the Iranian regime had stopped its nuclear weapons development programme in 2003.
Mohammad Mohaddessin, an official of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said in a statement issued in Brussels that the group had passed on the information to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and had asked it to send its inspectors to the site.
"Lack of firmness by the international community has offered the regime the opportunity to get closer to obtaining the atomic bomb," Mohaddessin said.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is destined for civilian rather than military means.
Mohaddessin also said the Iranian nuclear programme was being assisted by experts from North Korea.
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