You're On Candid Camera

The march toward fascism by this administration should alarm every citizen, conservative and liberal alike. Every would be dictator invents an imaginary, civilization-destroying enemy, then proceeds to take away citizens rights under the guise of "protection".. (sure, fundamentalist terrorists are a threat, but they aren't going to destroy our way of life, UNLESS we let them by giving up our freedoms ) Do your homework, read your history. The pattern is profound. Please, write to your senators and congressmen asserting your fundamental, constitutional rights to privacy, freedom of speech and religion before they are further stripped from you.

It really doesn't matter how a government seeks to justify such a program. It will continue to push and chip away at our Bill of Rights until you can no longer use it to ensure any sense of liberty. The power and abilities of these mechanisms will allow a surveillance agency to virtually step inside your home and life without any clue that they're doing it. The use of fear mongering, etc. by the Bush administration, and others likely to continue its terrible work, seeks to ensure that what used to be our good faith in our government will make this possible. Humans will control the use of these satellites, and they will, therefor, inevitably be abused. Congress should forever ban the use of these satellites for this work and only allow them to be used as they have been used in the previously described natural diaster and agricultural endeavors, once permission has been granted and under total and full disclosure. The Constitution was created to ensure that our natural human rights to be our own free sovereigns is never constrained. The real solution to reducing crime is not more and more laws, rules, constraints, and ever-present forms of enforcement, but rather addressing the root causes which is giving people more to live for than crime. You know, rather than spending trillions of dollars on illegal wars, etc., we might spend it on education, health care, infrastructure, etc. Just a thought.

civil liberties? they have an x-ray machine that can look into your bedroom? if not when in public you should be watched!!!

Where have you been? Bush has been spying on you from the sky for eight years. The sad commentary is that he's so stupid............ what will he do with the information? Don't blame Bush, YOU voted for him twice.

Yes, millerm84. What some people don't realize is that when these erosions of our freedoms occur, the power to intrude into our daily lives trickles down through the law enforcement agencies little by little, statute by statute, court decision by court decision, and finally into the hands of the local constabulary. "Lemme see what you got in your pockets, there", with no probable cause to ask. "Why are you driving here this time of night", with no probable cause to ask. "What you got in that purse? Looks too big to me to be innocent".
The constitution has protections written in it to prevent such intrusion into our innocent daily lives, free from undue suspicion, and "undue suspicion" is the unworthy motivation for these intrusions.

Wow. I linked to this article from a headline on MSNBC that siad "Bush wants to train spy satellites on U.S." It's amazing how these two "news organizations" work in concert to deceive the American public. These technologies have been in existence for years and have in no case that I've ever heard of been used to violate civil liberties. Why don't you people worry about radical Muslims training their rockets on your kids like they do in Isreal instead of worrying about our government trying to do everything they can to protect us.

One of our founding father's said it best.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
Any "program" with the potential to dig very deeply into the lives' of Americans deserves very careful scrutiny.
It seem as though we are moving very quickly of the concept of "freedom" employed in the old Soviet Union.
Their concept of freedom was "freedom from". The American concept has been "freedom to". Do we really want to sacrifice everyone's privacy?
My hat is off to our Congress on this one

With Bush's popularity so low, it's interesting to read comments of those who still support him. I've noticed that the people that oppose Bush and Co.'s neo-con platform, the so called "liberals" or "left-wings" write with so much more clarity and intelligence. The Bush supporters can barely spell and many of them make crude, stupid comments. Maybe that's why it's so easy for Republican politicians to dupe them into voting for them.
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OMG Observer is a perfect example of the 17% that think this is the way to go for our country.
Imagine for a moment what is about to happen. The Justice Dept. has been purged of Democrats and stuffed with Neo Con Whacko Republican Fascists loyal not to the country but to their Party. Active Democrat businesspersons will have their voting record, banking info, web traffic, emails, phone conversations, travel,location, and physical movements all tracked and catalogued. The Justice Department then finds some mix with which to prosecute, and silently off to jail you go. Your biz fails, your family falls to poverty and your economic power is NOTHING. Thirty years of this and we will be in a living ONE PARTY HELL. The ONLY people, like "Observer" that think this is okay are persons that feel they have an inside position with the Fascist regime. These petulant arguements that "its already happening-get used to it", and "if you're not doing anything wrong whats there to worry about", are not ignorant and foolish, they are evil manipulators of semantics trying to lead us away from our GOD GIVEN RIGHTS OF FREEDOM AND AUTONOMY.

HOLY EFFIN' CRAP!

The Bush Admin and the GOP are clearly not to be trusted regarding ANYTHING related to civil liberties under any circumstances.

Attention Democrats who still labor under the illusion that your GOP counterparts love America: NO MORE. STop anything and everything they want to do related to spying. Don't you understand they will spy on YOU? They already have, and probably are right now, and you have no recourse to ensure they are not, thanks to your own FISA ineptitude.

Ask your Democratic Representative who voted for FISA if they can prove they are not being spied on right now. Then ask them how they think this satellite thingy will go.

So, I am working in the government spy office, and I am so busy. Do you know how much time it takes for me to spy on all of you? I mean really. It takes a tremendous amount of concentration to watch every move that everyone of you make especially when you are in a crowd. If I look away for just a second I lose you and then of course you can run around and do whatever until we pick you up again at home. I hate it most when I have to go to the bathroom right when someone is getting ready to do something, or when a cloud covers you. Plus, they have me assigned to read all of your email and listen to all of your calls. Hey can you guys use better spam filters. We just got a memo today that we don't have to read your spam, only things in your inbox. Also, stop with all the email addresses. I know I have 3 yahoos and 2 hotmails not counting my work one. Do you know how hard it is for me to follow you on my little video screen, read your emails, and listen to your phone calls and read all your text messages. I don't even know all the LOL, BRB, IMHO, and all of those things so it is kind of hard. Sometimes when you are at a football game, I get distracted by the game and watch it a little and then of course we swing the satellite over to the cheerleaders and watch them before we swing back to you. Well I have to go now and violate all of your civil rights. It is a busy job, but someone has to do it.