'Cause I think I'm there. Not physically, just intellectually. The meeting ran nearly two hours over, as we sat around talking about general geek long after half the members had gone home. So much wonderful geek. Ideas and tours and crafts and workshops and inter-club collaborations and really crappy sci-fi movies and I got interviewed for a radio show and Firefly marathon sleepovers in the Rotunda. I love my little fledgeling club. Even if it does make me go to school two hours early tomorrow.
As for the other thing... urrgh. Would a black armband be too melodramatic? I'm considering it. Even though with the current trend, the NDP will feel so stupid over the results that we'll have another government topple by summer.
Just... still.
Them. In power. A little voice in my head keeps repeating "it's not too late to move to England!"
Sigh.
Sleep.
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Trying to understand this here...I read the far-left party helped bring about this election...why would they help the conservatives?
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and illegal wiretapping...
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_11106.shtml. (N.B.: Though I'm quoting a conservative blog, it's the only one I've found that cited the relevant statute.)
USSID, enacted in July of 1993, creates the following, as described by The American Spectator’s Jed Babbin:
Babbin further reports that FISA, misrepresented by liberals far and wide, allows the Attorney General to bypass the FISA court. This obviously makes sense, since it would be virtually impossible for the government to go before the FISA court every time a terrorist made a telephone call in which someone in the United States was a participant.
These facts are terribly simple. As Babbin summarizes, “[e]veryone who is ranting and raving about illegality has neither the facts (most of which we don't know) or the law and regulations (which weigh heavily in favor of legality) on their side.”
So I repeat, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. We won't have our precious liberty very long if we don't have our ears open for the people that would like to turn America into a smoking crater.
Because you wouldn't be sloppy enough to take an arguement directly from a blog without reading what he was quoting would you?
And I say to you:
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin
The accusations are serious enough that there should be an investigation of the president, because what Clinton did, doesn't hold a candle to the seriousness of these accusations.
See... here's the key difference. Serious accusations about Bush vs. what Bill Clinton did. Clinton lost his license to practice law due to some of the wrongdoing he committed. Bush has merely been accused of wrong-doing. There's a double-standard here. As far as some of the nutty liberals in the press and government are concerned, the facts don't matter; it's only the seriousness of the charges that matter, and prove in their minds that Bush is the evilest thing to hit D.C. This goes back to what we were talking about earlier: people are prejudging the situation all around. Conservatives are assuming that Bush is doing the honorable thing, and liberals are assuming he's laughing, pulling the wings off of flies while listening in on people's intimate conversations with their fiancee back in Elbonia. The blog entry I pointed to decided to dig up the relevant laws, and use that to back up their positions, rather than get into a pissing match.
Anybody can make an accusation. Some are true. Some are merely made to smear someone permanently. The accusation could easily be baseless. Judge Robertson might have a dog in the fight, and an axe to grind against Bush and Co. Absent any other facts, I don't think it's right to jump to conclusions. I have no problem with an investigation. I'm just sick of the press and hardcore wacky left (not you, and definitely left-wingers in general) screaming, "See! Bush is teh EEEEEVIIIL!!11 like the fruits of the Deeevil," without proof he's done anything inappropriate.
I should say so. The Republican Congress eagerly and enthusiastically begain impeachment proceedings based on the idea Clinton had lied about an affair. Yet, this Republican Congress has done nothing about Bush's KNOWN manipulation of intelligence data (Downing Street memo, anyone?) his flagrant violation of human rights in the condoning of torture and now this wiretapping thing which is the SAME thing that Nixon got in trouble for.
Yep. Double standard. If you're a Democrat, a BJ is a hanging offense. If you're a Republican? Government corruption is not even worth investigating (save by Republican controlled investigators).
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin
I also thought I'd point out that you (thru no fault of your own since it's a common mistake), have misquoted Mr. Franklin. The original quote reads with emphasis my own:
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
So far, that's all I've got. o.O