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POTUS knows who you're calling....
#25POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 7:57am
Except reading your emails,watching your video chats, etc etc. Did you read the article about the PRISM program?
Obama has lost all credibility on this issue
Updated On: 6/7/13 at 07:57 AM
#26POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 8:43am
The Times toned down that editorial from originally saying "The Obama Administration has lost all credibility" to The Obama Administration has lost all credibility on this issue."
The sad thing about this is that Obama has given conservatives all the ammo they need to say that liberals/Democrats trample on the right to privacy.
It was only a few years ago that liberals were able to accuse conservatives of that.
When did privacy cease to be a liberal issue?
#27POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 8:47amI first read that Op-Ed last night before they changed it. I agreed with the original draft.
Luscious
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#28POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 10:43am
I really don't get people's outrage on this. Where exactly do you think the government is getting the intelligence to circumvent possible future terrorist attacks? You know... things like 9/11, that happen once every 50 years or so. No administration, Democrat or Republican, is going to do a damn thing about this for fear of being labeled soft on defense. If, God forbid, another 9/11 was to happen under Obama's watch, and we weren't closely monitoring all forms of electronic communications, both Dems and Repubs would be all over O and his entire administration.
At this point, anyone who is under the illusion that they have the slightest modicum of privacy is truly living in a naïve fantasy world. Land of the free, my ass. Never has been. Never will be. Get used to it. And stop talking, texting and posting stupid, embarrassing s#it, while you're at it.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Ben Franklin
#29POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 10:48am
I don't understand your point. Are you saying we should NOT be outraged or we should?
Doesn't the Ben Franklin quote you ended with imply that he would have thought that we should?
Luscious
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#30POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:00am
What I'm saying is, you can be as outraged as you like, but it's not going to change a damn thing. We're living in a post 9/11 world, and it's never going to be like it was before. I don't like it, but there are a lot of things I don't like that I've learned to live with. I guess the question that you have to ask yourself is, do I want to live in a safer or freer country? Personally, I agree with Ben. But so what?
#31POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:06am
It's weird that you picked a Ben Franklin quote that pretty much backs up everyone's outrage.
Looks like Lucious has bought the "BE AFRAID AT ALL TIMES" propaganda.
Having everyone's phone conversations and emails didn't seem to stop what happened in Boston.
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#32POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:08am
I was wondering why Barack called me up yesterday and asked me "Rich, How was The National concert at Barclay's last night?"
"Good Mr. President" I replied. "But how did you know I was there?"
"You used your Verizon pbone to call your friend Amanda to tell her where to meet you and I'd heard it was a good show."
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#33POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:09am
Damn Luscious what is the source of all that pent up anger, frustration and hostility. Were you frothing at the mouth when you typed that? Seriously. Chill out.
Updated On: 6/7/13 at 11:09 AM
Luscious
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#34POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:20am
Erik, please don't speak for me or make assumptions about me. I haven't "bought" anything. In fact, I "buy" very little the government has to dish out. I do, however, believe that monitoring electronic communications allows the government to identify possible terrorists, thereby circumventing possible future attacks. Do I like giving up a big chunk of my privacy and personal liberties to accomplish this? No, I don't. But if another 9/11 were to happen under this, or any other, administration, most people would be "outraged" and crying that we should have been more vigilant. Perhaps one of the reasons why I'm not as surprised or outraged as many seem to be on this issue is that I never "bought" into the notion that I was living in a "free" country. Freer than some, maybe. But definitely not truly free. Thems the facts, like it or not.
Carlos... I don't know where or why you're getting anger and hostility from my posts. I couldn't be less angry or hostile. In fact, I'm having a pretty amazing day, thank you very much. You do the same.
#35POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:37am
Perhaps I got it from this?
At this point, anyone who is under the illusion that they have the slightest modicum of privacy is truly living in a naïve fantasy world. Land of the free, my ass. Never has been. Never will be. Get used to it. And stop talking, texting and posting stupid, embarrassing s#it, while you're at it.
I seriously meant no disrespect and I guess I interpreted it the wrong way. So I apologize, and thanks for wishing me a nice day.
Updated On: 6/7/13 at 11:37 AM
Luscious
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#36POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:44am
That's what you consider to be angry and hostile??? Then you wouldn't want to be anywhere near me on a bad day. 
I was just stating a fact. And my last sentence was directed at the general population, not, necessarily, BWW posters - although, it certainly applies to some here; even myself, from time to time. My point is, this the world we're living in. This is the reality. Your privacy didn't disappear within the last week, or month, or year, or 10 years. You never really had any to begin with. Maybe, just maybe, it's time to come to that realization and start operating from that perspective.
And no offense taken. I'm not trying to ruffle any feathers. Just stating my opinion.
#37POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 12:39pm
I would like to hear more about your theory of having "no privacy" for over 10 years. I disagree with that.
This is police state nonsense. It's in direct violation of the constitution. And it's happening because of apathy. Because of the "I don't agree with it but there's nothing we can do about it anyway" attitude.
#38POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 12:57pmMy parents live in a community of mostly NSA employees. Bits and pieces get out. You've been monitored in one way or another for decades.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#39POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 2:49pm
America the Passive--Great article
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#40POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 4:19pm
That was a great article.
"Cue some screaming here: Obama promised the most transparent administration; he has run the most secretive, prosecuting more whistle-blowers for national security leaks – six – than all prior presidents put together. And yes, many, maybe all, Congress members knew about these NSA programs, but some who knew have been blowing the whistle – in code, anyway, as old-fashioned whistle-blowing might get them arrested – that the administration’s interpretation of what the law allowed, if widely known, would be beyond what most people believe the law allowed."
Glenn Greenwald is on a roll.
Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
Updated On: 6/7/13 at 04:19 PM
Luscious
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#41POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 5:58pmDamned if he does. Damned if he don't.
#42POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:40pmSlightly OT -- but maybe not, considering "freedom" in our country -- Glenn Greenwald now lives in Brazil because DOMA prevents his husband from entering the US.
#43POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/8/13 at 9:13am
I didn't know Greenwald was gay.
Public Documents Contradict Claim Email Spying Foiled Terror Plot
Updated On: 6/8/13 at 09:13 AM
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#44POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/8/13 at 10:10pm
I've been screaming against this from day one. The backpack searching - here in the US - after the London incident. The TSA theater. People having to take their shoes off to get on a plane because one brain-deficient lunatic tried to light a bomb that wouldn't have worked anyway? Just how many terrorist incidents have been foiled by that particular procedure?
Exactly zero - and yet we all line up like sheep for it, years later, because if you have to fly, you have no choice. It's all BS, always has been.
This isn't for our protection. It's for our subjugation. Ben had it right.
#45POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/10/13 at 12:21pm
Edward Snowden, an ex-CIA employee is the individual responsible for the leak. He did it out of conscience to protect "basic liberties for people around the world."
He is currently holed up in a hotel room in Hong Kong.
SOURCE
#46POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/10/13 at 2:51pm
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#47POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/10/13 at 10:46pm
6 out of 10 agree: State Surveillance is TOPS!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#48POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/11/13 at 10:36am
Everything is wonderful when Black Jesus does it!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#49POTUS knows who you're calling....
Posted: 6/11/13 at 10:40amThank you President Obama for bringing bipartisan support to the police state!
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