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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
The Federal government has investigated everybody and their brother. They've put creeper programs on the internet. They've set up overly-broad watchlists. They've set up threat detectors for entire cities. They've fingerprinted every single visitor from certain countries. Etc. etc. etc. At the end of the day, our goal here is to have a fairly comphrehensive domestic intelligence system in place. Since the frantic days after 9/11, you'll notice that the government has moved more and more towards preemptive measures in arresting groups of suspected terrorists and individuals. No more, we received information that they were conducting war games in the Virginia woods. More like, she's illegal, she crossed from Mexico, she was carrying a lot of money she couldn't justify, and she's on our middle east watchlist. She's deported.
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Okay. That's a step. I think we, as a country have agreed somewhat that some of our liberties have to be curtailed to increase safety. Although, I think Ashcroft and Bush have gone a little overboard, I'm not going to go nuts because if they're going to err on this front, it should be on the side of safety.
The problem is, they count on that. They have been using it to get themselves re-elected. Whether it be Cheney using the art of the soundbite to get the message across that if you don't vote for them, you're putting us all in danger, to having the convention in New York and playing up 9/11 as often as possible (and if I see Giuliani one more time sucking Bush's dick, I'm going to lose it). I think it is dishonest and disgusting.
It wouldn't be so bad if what he was doing overseas made sense. Maybe I would be able to give him the benefit of the doubt on domestic safety issues if he wasn't so full of shit about Iraq. But he is full of it when it comes to foreign policy. And then he turns around and wraps himself in the bodies of the people who died on 9/11, while trying his best to keep you scared. Don't question him. Don't criticize him. He knows how people think. Follow, follow, follow. Don't think. Follow.
TM
