Keeping on with my project to visit one member of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists each day, today I visited The Bullwinkle Blog. With a name like that, how could I NOT visit? (My son will get that one)>
JohnJ has a good take on the foofrah going on about the NSA program and a whole lot of other stuff as well. Nice blog – great name!
By “good take” are you saying you agree with:
“unless someone from the FBI comes down here and hassles me (and I don’t consider someone asking me questions to be “harrassmentâ€), no violation of my rights has occured.” (fully accepting that the FBI can scan any records held by private companies- Phone, Credit Card, Medical, etc).
I really have to wonder what you and this guy think are the reason the founding fathers put limits on government powers, including unreasonable SEARCH and siezure. (I can just hear your response- If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide!)
I’d like to you offically go on the record with this Gauis so when further slipperly slope violations of the fourth amendment occur, you can’t backpedal and say it bothered you when all this started coming out.
Frankly I just have to shake my head ruefully that so called conservatives defend this bunk. You and Black Jack can call me a faux conservative until you’re both blue in the face, but I’ve read enough Buckley and Buchanan to know who are real conservatives and who are just administration lackeys.
Jim
The appropriate government agencies can scan my telephone records till the cows come home anytime they want. I don’t mind a bit. Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t want any more of those annoying “curtesy calls” from jerks trying to sell me something. That’s not what’s at issue here.
But, scanning phone records for patterns that might help catch terrorists is exactly the sort of thing the administration should be doing. I’d be upset if they weren’t taking such common sense steps to protect us. It’s their job, it’s what they get paid to do. Wake up and smell the coffee.
There’s nothing “unreasonable” about it.