Because, after all, the Leftists and Mr Obama want nothing more than to increase your freedoms. Because, after all, the Republicans and Conservatives want nothing more than to negate your freedoms.
I say: uh, no. Your freedoms are entirely repressed by the Left. And this continues to prove that notion:
Proposed law scheduled for a vote next week originally increased Americans’ e-mail privacy. Then law enforcement complained. Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital files.
A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans’ e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law, CNET has learned.
Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement concerns, according to three individuals who have been negotiating with Leahy’s staff over the changes. A vote on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans’ e-mail, is scheduled for next week.
This wasn’t occurring under Bush I or Bush II or under Reagan. It is occurring under His Majesty, Barack Hussein Obama — THE ONE.
Let there be no mistake: whatever privacy may exist in the world, will now be mostly gone under this senate bill.
Whatever revelations I wanted in years past, I would have had to mandatorily solicit under any number of crafted warrants. Either search or arrest. They’re not that tough. But they are lawful. If I wanted access as a Detective, I had to write and submit various and sundry but very specific and applicable warrants. To a very specific court.
Warrants grant access to either things or persons.
Under Obama: no.
Under Obama: freedoms DIMINISHED.
BZ
Funny, I remember the lefty’s complaining about George Bush taking our freedoms and it was the reason we needed Obama to be POTUS!.. Now, lets see.. Patriot act? Continued with MORE GOVERNMENT ABILITY, NDDA act SIGNED which give the feds the right to detain you when they decide to. AND NOW THIS???? Oh yeah that evil George Bush. sigh.
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Imagine that! Hypocrisy!
BZ
Cynical me thinks this openly allows what has been happening for years at the federal level.
Any of us shocked at this?
BZ
Freedom of speech — gone!
Our Founders must be sobbing in grief.
I just began reading Jon Meacham’s book on Thomas Jefferson.
I wonder what they’d think about our country in its current state?
Would THEY think it’s time to foment revolution?
BZ
Yep, so much for ‘transparency’ and privacy… Significantly less of both, and you can bet DHS is going to be ALL OVER this…
Makes you want to disavow the entire digital world.
What people don’t realize: we have few if any true physical forms of entertainment, anymore, that isn’t OWNED by the content creators.
– DVD sales are diminishing: Netflix & the like;
– Book sales are diminishing: eBooks in the “cloud”;
– Music sales are diminishing: iPods and MP3;
Which is why I buy BOOKS and DVDs and CDs: I BOUGHT it, and I OWN it — not the content creator.
Sorry for the sidetrack. . .
BZ
If there is a *watch list* that I am NOT on, I am surprised… Let them read my emails, and blog, a dose of TRUTH would do those bastards some good I think…
I’ll be right there with you.
I drop all over the internet with many buzz-words and -phrases that I’m sure activate NSA servers.
You, me, Thomas Jefferson: American Terrorists.
How sad, that to think individual freedom and liberty may now be equated to terrorism.
BZ
When injustice becomes law resistance becomes duty…
Deo vindice.
With God as our defender.
And yes, Fred, I know where this sources.
BZ
Hey Obama ()O(),,,kiss it,,,,,,
I believe it allows them to follow you, too, if you are a journalist who wanders into territory deemed off limits.
Sue, that would not shock me in the SLIGHTEST.
BZ