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The Fuse Has Been Lit: Seven Critical Points on Champ's Spying Program

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-06-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 See also FREEREPUBLIC > 27 EDWARD SNOWDEN QUOTES ABOUT US GOVT. SPYING THAT SHOULD SEND A CHILL UP YOUR SPINE.

* SAME > THE SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL IS A DIRECT RESULT OF OUR NATIONAL DENIAL OF JIHAD.

Good Artic, but I suspect that as usual there's more than one factor or element involved.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-06-12 02:56|| 2013-06-12 02:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Limerick of the day:

Obama is good at spying
Even better at lying
What about PRISM?
What about Prison?
I would be most happy if he just stopped trying

Posted by airandee 2013-06-12 10:59|| 2013-06-12 10:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Seventh, as far as the American people are concerned, this domestic spying is a big deal. Yet revealingly, to the political class--that is, our leaders in Washington DC--its not such a big deal. And there we see the central cleft in our politics today: the widening gap between the government and the governed.

Well, it is a BFD, it trashes the 1st Amendment [free speech, rights of assembly (albeit electronically)], and the 4th Amendment [the right of people to be secure in their houses, papers, effects against unreasonable search and seizures and the requirement of probable cause and a Warrant]. But as Hilldebeast said: "What difference does it make?" We'll see if it is a BFD and if such things make a difference anymore.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-06-12 11:01|| 2013-06-12 11:01|| Front Page Top

#4 If Spying is NOT a "Big Deal" To them, spy ON THEM and listen to the screams.

Suddenly it will become a "Big Deal" And must be stopped RIGHT NOW.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-06-12 12:58|| 2013-06-12 12:58|| Front Page Top

"Yes, Big Brother walks among us now, jiving, peeking and snooping into everything. And we, innocently and unwittingly, invited Big Brother into our midst."

LONG LIVE BIG BREEZY!

Posted by Flinetle Shinetch4872 2013-06-12 13:50|| 2013-06-12 13:50|| Front Page Top

#6 If Spying is NOT a "Big Deal" To them, spy ON THEM and listen to the screams.

Watergate.

I know it's somewhere down that damn memory hole.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-06-12 19:09|| 2013-06-12 19:09|| Front Page Top

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