Website review: Nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Senate-F...
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aliasinkhorn discovered 4 months ago- After getting acquainted with Eastern Europe these past few years and hearing stories about the 'old days' under communism, I have been more deeply amazed how the U.S. has become more like its old nemesis. Under communism dossiers were compiled on citizens - this word is used loosely - even containing the most trivial and trite facts. In one eastern European country, it was discovered that the 'facts' on people were often in error. No matter. The 'state' was always right. But in truth, states are not always right. What is the interest of offices of the U.S. government - or is it better to call America a 'state' in distinction to the proletariat - to keep dossiers on its population? Several men from the Near East perform a horrendous crime of terror to cause the government to spy and compile data on 300 million people? Should the lyrics to the song, 'America, sweet land of liberty' be rephrased, 'America, sweet land of tyranny?' Hyperbole has its place in the discussion of the Patriot Act and privacy breaches by FBI. The FBI has a better historical recorded than the debased use it has been put to in recent years. No government protects the liberties of its citizens by abridging them.
- longhornjoe rated 4 months ago
- From the page: "''There were guidelines before, and there were laws before, and the FBI violated those laws,'' German said. ''And the idea that new guidelines would make a difference, I think cuts against rationality.''"
- StumbleKKSS rated 4 months ago
- The FBI acknowledged it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies.
