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As a privacy-dependent ANIMAL, I find this distressing
55 Democrats joined even more Republicans and voted to extend NSA surveillance power a truly paranoid hold-over from 9/11 that has pushed our country into the current zeitgeist. Here's NBC News:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna836836
Democrats have been all over the airwaves recently accusing Donald Trump of abusing the Justice Department to go after his political enemies most notably his former opponent Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation, which the Department of Justice is reportedly currently investigating based on allegation made during the 2016 presidential campaign. So youd think they would oppose handing Donald Trump any more power with which he could potentially use against all sorts of Americans who attract negative attention from his administration.
Yet, with the help of some Democrats, the House of Representatives voted today and the Senate will do so sometime in the next week to extend a controversial NSA surveillance power that potentially affects millions of Americans privacy rights.
Yet, with the help of some Democrats, the House of Representatives voted today and the Senate will do so sometime in the next week to extend a controversial NSA surveillance power that potentially affects millions of Americans privacy rights.
It's also reported in the Times:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-congress-trump.html
And CNN:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/01/12/politics/fisa-surveillance-weird-politics/index.html
This issue transcends partisan politics and should be given as much space in our daily dose of dialogue as Trump's stupid tweets or the latest cute cats. We are still victims of Osama Bin Laden if we continue to inflict so much destruction on our freedoms. This is a Democrat speaking. I want my country back!
The fact that Pelosi and other Democratic leaders supported the continuation of FISA suggests that they are not tuned into the growing progressive wave which is going to change a lot of things in November.
Get ready to vote, and vote with your eyes wide open.
Peace,
Democracy Mouse
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As a privacy-dependent ANIMAL, I find this distressing (Original Post)
DemocracyMouse
Jan 2018
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MiniMe
(21,724 posts)1. One reason I won't have an Alexa, an Echo, or whatever other "listening devices" they have out there
I guess I just a paranoid old biddy, but I hate the idea of those devices. I don't post my life on facebook either. I am shocked at some of the personal stuff people share on facebook.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)2. Wow, good point! They're like those kids toys that monitored children
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)3. Hey, the privacy bros are the ones who screamed at me for two solid years
that Hillary was the worst candidate ever and it would be nonstop wars, drones, spying and speeches to Goldman Sachs...
They wanted Trump, they got Trump, and now they need to chew on it...