Comments on: Senate Passes Eavesdropping Bill

Bill Grants Immunity To Phone Companies That Listened In On Americans

[fightfascism]

i''m soooo scared of the middle eastern boogeymen! save me from the camel riders phone companies!

[wardoglrs]

%u201CAlways vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.%u201D %u2014 John Quincy Adams
"Arms are the only true badges of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave."


"The unarmed man is not just defenseless, he is also contemptible." Machiavelli


"Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen." Jeff Cooper,
The Art of The Rifle



"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations be
come corrupt, they have more need of masters." Benjamin Franklin.



"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." Samuel Adams.

%u201CUnfortunately, nothing will preserve [liberty] but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.%u201D Patrick Henry

[wardoglrs]

"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in Government." -- Thomas Jefferson

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -- Thomas Jefferson

[wlmrtpatriot]

What a national day of grief. Guess I''ll be sending out my lunch orders by smoke signal from this day forward. I do so hate to p.o the fire dept. Are we still allowed to have camp fires? I never know.

[barocalto]

Every member of the Senate that voted for this has now violated his/her oath of office. Not one of them should get ANY votes in November.

Posted by nsSherlock1

yea that''s the right idea just stay home.

[nssherlock1]

Every member of the Senate that voted for this has now violated his/her oath of office. Not one of them should get ANY votes in November.

[barocalto]

Obama ended up voting for the final bill,

Here we go again I sent money to Obama to stop this kind of stuff and now he don''t care what he said yesterday or last months.. I feel like I''ve been screwed and never got kissed. Well this is the last item I can take I not voting for Obama I just going to stay home on election day..

[itgranny]

Geesh! It''s one thing after another after another with these people who are supposed to be leading us. What, do we need a bloody revolution to get rid of these folks? It''s pretty obvious they aren''t on our side! Even Obama vote for this piece of garbage!

[anecdote1]

Where is the FBI you asked? They are creating a file on every person (American) and assigning a rating for their potential to cause terror.
Posted by impeach__w at 12:06 AM

Will they be using the color threat catagory system again? If so, (and if it hasn''t already been taken), I''d like to be threat level orange. (So long as there is no cavity search involved). Good evening Gents, and may tomorrow be a better day than this was.

[impeach__w]

Where is the FBI you asked? They are creating a file on every person (American) and assigning a rating for their potential to cause terror.

Currently, FBI agents need specific reasons - like evidence or allegations that a law probably has been violated - to investigate U.S. citizens and legal residents. The new policy, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press, would let agents open preliminary terrorism investigations after mining public records and intelligence to build a profile of traits that, taken together, were deemed suspicious. Among the factors that could make someone subject of an investigation is travel to regions of the world known for terrorist activity, access to weapons or military training, along with the person''s race or ethnicity.
http://www.cbsnews.com
/stories/2008/07/03/national/main4229431.shtml

If your Government keeps a file on you and you do not have access to it, you are not in a free and open society.

[randynason]

Cowards. The more time goes by, the less use I have for this country. It''s a sham.

[anecdote1]

Posted by Humanavance at 11:45 PM

Amen to that! Boy, I''d hate to be an incumbent on November''s ticket.

[impeach__w]

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once wrote: "The government is the potent, omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by example. To declare that the end justifies the means - to declare that the government may commit crimes - would bring terrible retribution."


"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government''s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
J Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting in Olmstead v United States,(1928).

[harrydoghiny]

TRAITORS!

[impeach__w]

There was an Intelligence agreement with Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, in part once known as Echelon. It was Constitutional only when calls were routed where our allies such as Canada could listen, record, scan, filter Communication in the US and pass the information gleaned back to us. That way, a loophole existed because all monitoring for all countries would be considered Foreign and therefore constitutional.

[stn_sage]

Let''s see, Democrats voted to give Bush war authorization powers, who turned around and betrayed that trust, by launching an unnecessary war that has resulted in death and economic waste!

Now, they vote to give immunity to companies who violated existing law by illegally spying on Americans!

It appears that the Democrats have no more respect for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the citizenry who elected them, or; personal honor or integrity than Mrs. Bush and Cheney!

So, not only have they failed to do their jobs to impeach Bush and Cheney, now; they continue to take part in the actual degradation of our system of government!

Well, thanks GOP! Thanks, Democrats! YOU BOTH STINK!!

[anecdote1]

Posted by Humanavance at 11:30 PM

And no one can afford the light bill.

[randynason]

I was sickened to find the House was so cowardly and now I''m disgusted the Senate is equally impotent, with regard to this bill. What a clueless bunch of MF-ing a-holes. I owe this country nothing and hope to watch it further decay from within, like the immoral and barren *hor* that it is.

[anecdote1]

The last 7 years has sent a clear and echoing message. If your a terrorist, you will be hunted down and killed.
Posted by cbville70 at 09:54 PM

Like Bin Laden?

[cdfoxtrot1]

I can''t believe that CBS editors think the word "d_ar_n" is a word to be ***''d out.

How conservative can people be???