Congress is scarier than the terrorists
It's not only terrorists that we have to worry about .. after all, terrorists can't take away our Habeus Corpus, our Bill of Rights and our Constitution ...
No, terrorists are small potatoes compared to the threat we face from our own government .. which is taking away our freedoms one brick at a time.
And it's just now dawning on the dang Democrats that the surveillance bill they hustled through Congress (inexcusably) in a rush to get away for their freakin' recess, might not have been such a good idea after all.
Because now it looks like they gave Bush more power to screw us over than he actually asked for .. more power that further eroded the Constitution.
Hey Democrats, would you please READ this stuff before you vote on it .. especially when it trashes the Constitution?
From the New York Times: WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include — without court approval — certain types of physical searches on American soil and the collection of Americans’ business records, Democratic Congressional officials and other experts said.
....The dispute illustrates how lawmakers, in a frenetic, end-of-session scramble, passed legislation they may not have fully understood and may have given the administration more surveillance powers than it sought. [..]"
Before you know it the Bushies will be reading your diary on FoxNews.
"We did not cover ourselves in glory," said one Democratic aide … "
Ya think?
I had pretty high hopes for this Congress .. but the Democrats are failing me miserably. I already gave up on my favorite Republicans.
The Bushies are turning this country into a dictatorship and the Democratic majority seem to be too chicken to stop them.
If the Democrats really want to protect this country like they say they do, as soon as Congress is back in session they'll introduce a bill to repeal this monstrosity .. and in simple language make sure FISA is changed to cover new technology.
But I won't hold my breath ...
"Though many Democratic leaders opposed the final version of the legislation, they did not work forcefully to block its passage, largely out of fear that they would be criticized by President Bush and Republican leaders during the August recess as being soft on terrorism."
Democrats, which is worse? The GOP calling you names, or living under a Fascist Rule?
One thing I know fer sure -- as disgusted as I am with the Democrats, I'll probably still vote for one of them .. the probable Republican candidates disgust me even more.
