Saturday, July 30, 2011

Conservative Statist Republicans

They are so concerned about government intrusion that they want to facilitate it.
A last-minute rewrite of the bill expands the information that commercial Internet providers are required to store to include customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses, some committee members suggested. By a 7-16 vote, the panel rejected an amendment that would have clarified that only IP addresses must be stored.
They are taking a page from ramming through the "USA Patriot Act" and naming it in such a way to make it harder to oppose it. But one thing we learned from that law was that the FBI will use all powers granted for one thing for everything else.

Funny thing: You'd think that those teabagging Republicans would not be in favor of anything that makes it easier for the government to monitor what people do.

But you would be so wrong.

I'm not even going to riff on the point that the change in the law was quietly pushed for by the George W. Obama Justice Department. For when it comes to expanding the power of the government to spy on its citizens, ol' Torturer Dick has nothing on President Romney Obama.

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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous7/30/2011 6:48 PM

    Demigogery aside, both parties agree the strait-jacket isn't tight enough yet on potential threats.

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  2. Eck!7/30/2011 8:25 PM

    Gee, welcome to Communist China..

    Oh wait, we only rent from them, oops.

    Eck!

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  3. w3ski7/30/2011 9:34 PM

    I happened to be in Humboldt County California USA after the original 'Patriot Act' passed.
    Almost funny how the law instantly applied to citizens performing their legal business. If you were on the public road in a known 'Pot Producing Area' you were likely to be Stopped and Searched for no other raeson than where you were when they saw you.
    Welcome to Amerika, comrades.
    w3ski

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  4. montag7/30/2011 11:57 PM

    Power corrupts and you know the rest.

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  5. wolfbitch7/31/2011 12:46 AM

    I can't wait for this to pass. (<=== sarcasm.)

    I own an Adults Only gore/porn forum, which also has a healthy helping of fierce political debate, during which guns and overthrow and revolution do get mentioned.

    Frequently by me.

    I expect a knock on my door any time now, especially since not only do I own such a forum, I work for the US Government.

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