Just because.
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I recently debated a bit with someone who... pretty much scoffed at all of the cites I provided to my arguments about Obama, simply because OMG THEY'RE BASED IN THE INTERNET O NOEZ. D:
And therefore, completely unreliable. Just so nobody forgets, here's some of the shit 'Bama and the Dems have been up to.
Obama and wiretapping.
Obama and veterans' insurance.
Obama and censoring the internet.
Obama and disarming airline pilots.
ACORN and voter fraud.
Bailout cash allocated for groups like ACORN.
And just to drive the point even further home on the wiretapping issue:
http://www.inteldaily.com/news/173/ARTICLE/10429/2009-04-18.html
Here's a few highlights:
Supported by both then President Bush and Senator Barack Obama-who interrupted his campaign last July to come back and vote on the measure-the FISA Amendment Act essentially provided congressional sanction for the secret and illegal warrantless wiretapping program initiated by the Bush administration in 2001. The legislation explicitly allowed the NSA to conduct dragnet surveillance of international communications by Americans.
And this;
Given the wholesale character of this spying, it is hardly a surprise that domestic calls and emails are being subjected to warrantless surveillance as well. The act, approved with the support of the entire Democratic leadership in the House and nearly half of the Democratic senators, overturned even the limited restraints on government spying that existed under the FISA law passed in 1978, in the wake of revelations of gross abuses of power by the White House and the intelligence agencies under the Nixon administration.
One more:
The bill passed last summer with Obama’s support also granted retroactive immunity to the telecommunications companies that collaborated in the warrantless wiretapping program, leading to the dismissal of scores of lawsuits charging them with illegal invasion of privacy. Thus, the legislation sought to prevent any accountability for the crimes that had already taken place, while essentially legalizing going forward what had been criminal acts. However, since Obama entered the White House, his Justice Department has sought to block just such suits. Using the same method as the Bush administration before it, federal attorneys are invoking the “state secrets” privilege for withholding information on the illegal spying and arguing that for a court to even hear the case would result in “grave harm to national security."
Seriously... all of these are things Obama was supposed to put an end to. Supposedly. Funny how that works.
I've said it before... I hate George W. Bush. And I always will. And I'd REALLY like to believe that we elected an entire opposite government and President, who will fix all of Bush's bullshit and run this country correctly for a change... but I'm not seeing it. And judging by how things have been run so far... I don't think I'm going to.
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I recently debated a bit with someone who... pretty much scoffed at all of the cites I provided to my arguments about Obama, simply because OMG THEY'RE BASED IN THE INTERNET O NOEZ. D:
And therefore, completely unreliable. Just so nobody forgets, here's some of the shit 'Bama and the Dems have been up to.
Obama and wiretapping.
Obama and veterans' insurance.
Obama and censoring the internet.
Obama and disarming airline pilots.
ACORN and voter fraud.
Bailout cash allocated for groups like ACORN.
And just to drive the point even further home on the wiretapping issue:
http://www.inteldaily.com/news/173/ARTICLE/10429/2009-04-18.html
Here's a few highlights:
Supported by both then President Bush and Senator Barack Obama-who interrupted his campaign last July to come back and vote on the measure-the FISA Amendment Act essentially provided congressional sanction for the secret and illegal warrantless wiretapping program initiated by the Bush administration in 2001. The legislation explicitly allowed the NSA to conduct dragnet surveillance of international communications by Americans.
And this;
Given the wholesale character of this spying, it is hardly a surprise that domestic calls and emails are being subjected to warrantless surveillance as well. The act, approved with the support of the entire Democratic leadership in the House and nearly half of the Democratic senators, overturned even the limited restraints on government spying that existed under the FISA law passed in 1978, in the wake of revelations of gross abuses of power by the White House and the intelligence agencies under the Nixon administration.
One more:
The bill passed last summer with Obama’s support also granted retroactive immunity to the telecommunications companies that collaborated in the warrantless wiretapping program, leading to the dismissal of scores of lawsuits charging them with illegal invasion of privacy. Thus, the legislation sought to prevent any accountability for the crimes that had already taken place, while essentially legalizing going forward what had been criminal acts. However, since Obama entered the White House, his Justice Department has sought to block just such suits. Using the same method as the Bush administration before it, federal attorneys are invoking the “state secrets” privilege for withholding information on the illegal spying and arguing that for a court to even hear the case would result in “grave harm to national security."
Seriously... all of these are things Obama was supposed to put an end to. Supposedly. Funny how that works.
I've said it before... I hate George W. Bush. And I always will. And I'd REALLY like to believe that we elected an entire opposite government and President, who will fix all of Bush's bullshit and run this country correctly for a change... but I'm not seeing it. And judging by how things have been run so far... I don't think I'm going to.
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