Widespread Radioactivity Monitoring Is Confirmed - New York Times
Secret monitoring programs. Can the administration spell fourth amendment? Here, let me help:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Saturday, December 24, 2005
Friday, December 23, 2005
Scared Yet?
- Domestic spying without warrants, even though FISA allows for 72 hours of spying before a warrant is issued.
- Funding cuts for medicare, medicaid, student loans and early childhood education coupled with tax cuts for capital gains and on the top marginal rate
- A war justified on the threat of WMDs but the inability to find any
- Secret prisons in Europe where we sent people for interrogation
- An indictment brought against Padilla after 3 years, just as the case is headed to the Supreme Court for review, but absent of the sensational charges leveled when he was arrested.
- No bid contracts for Haliburton in Iraq
In the words of Ben Franklin
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "
Worst part is we aren't giving it up it's being stolen and for reasons that escape comprehension we're allowing it to happen and asking for more.
- Funding cuts for medicare, medicaid, student loans and early childhood education coupled with tax cuts for capital gains and on the top marginal rate
- A war justified on the threat of WMDs but the inability to find any
- Secret prisons in Europe where we sent people for interrogation
- An indictment brought against Padilla after 3 years, just as the case is headed to the Supreme Court for review, but absent of the sensational charges leveled when he was arrested.
- No bid contracts for Haliburton in Iraq
In the words of Ben Franklin
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "
Worst part is we aren't giving it up it's being stolen and for reasons that escape comprehension we're allowing it to happen and asking for more.
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