Since it’s not Bush, it’s OK

No terrorist offended.

Brattleboro, does this meet with your approval?

Government can snoop in you private e-mails thanks to Sens. Rockefeller(D) WV and Snowe(R) ME. Actually the bill goes farther than Bushes warantless wiretapping ever went; that appeared to be the scourge of civil libertarians from Brattleboro to Berkley.

Civilian libertarians were apoplectic over former President George W. Bush’s “warrantless wiretap” program, which sought to monitor communications from terrorist networks overseas. So why are they not screaming bloody murder now that President Barack Obama appears slated to receive unprecedented power to monitor all Internet traffic without a warrant and to even shut the system down completely on the pretext of national security? [snip]

The bill gives the Secretary of Commerce and a new national cybersecurity czar power to shut down all Internet transmissions in the event of a yet-to-be defined “cyber emergency.” This is a dangerous power, even for a president who in a 2008 campaign appearance at Dartmouth College harshly criticized Bush for anti-terrorist “wiretaps without warrants,” and promised that if elected he would leave such policies behind. [snip]

This bill, which is a full frontal assault on our First Amendment rights, should be deleted from the congressional agenda immediately. Americans should tell President Obama and members of Congress in no uncertain terms that their cyber-security agents will get inside our e-mail only after they pry our cold, dead hands away from our keypads.

Perhaps it is the fact that Obama will only snoop on those you dislike, not terrorists, but the right wing knuckle draggers so dispised.
Want to bet? That is one large net; you also have a habit of deviancy from the Dear Leader’s true path. You seem to believe you should belong to the elite. A severe error in the thought process as witnessed in previous glorious revolutions.

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