Here’s a rare weekend post. Since most of you read at work, it’s usually fairly pointless to put something up on the weekend. However, more about Bush’s eavesdropping plan has come out, and this has to be said.
If Bush and the boys find guessing to be essential to the “war on terror,” they’re so messed up in the game.
See, when you have to resort to warrantless surveillance, you’re just guessing. If you weren’t guessing, you could easily obtain a warrant for such things. The administration would have you believe that they needed to respond quickly to terror threats, but let’s think about this. If they need to perform surveillance so fast that they can’t wait for the paperwork, one would assume they have reason to believe that something is imminent. Or that they really have no clue what’s might or might not be going down and need to act post haste to get on the job.
That last part is one of two things–guessing or slow responding intelligence work.
Either way, so messed up in the game.
So what’s the problem with guessing? Much of the Constitution is to prevent the government from just guessing. The gubment needs some semblence of cause to start tailing people. And contrary to what many might think, it doesn’t take much cause to get a warrant. So, if there’s a need to avoid getting a warrant, then we’re just talking about guessing.
That’s right–guessing.
So is the United States any better equipped to fight terrorism than it was before 9/11? It appears that we are not.
So let’s kinda save the time of having an argument about the law. Let’s just look at what’s there and what it means.
It means that Bush has been good for absolutely nothing.
Remember after 9/11 when people said they were glad to have Bush in charge because he would be decisive and handle the terror threat in a way that Gore would not have been able to? Well, what has Bush really done?
He’s reached the novel conclusion that you can find out more about people when you start guessing instead of thinking and investigating.
So messed up in the game.
6 Comments
by Ben
Civil liberties are overrated anyway.
by aliajsmith
Did you catch the address last night? Either I’m going crazy, or he’s getting more convincing. I was horrified halfway through when I thought to myself, “Well, that kind of makes sense…”
After that, I changed the channel. Apparently, it’s true that if someone tells the same lies over and over again, they can’t help but sound believable.
Or maybe I’m so desperate for a solution to this whole mess, I’m willing to settle for anything, so long as it’s not nothing…
by nikki
brotha is spewing the bullshit and there are just enough folks out there with their mouths open, lapping it up.
by AJ
Hey Bomani, I’ve been reading your articles for a while, great work. Just a question regarding a post a few days earlier about the use of the N word…perhaps you could offer a reason why you believe that it’s okay for black rappers, comedians, entertainers to use this word? I’m not against you, I’m with you but I just want to hear your explanation.
by Rex
Hi Bo,
Your post could be boiled down to one of your sentences:
“It means that Bush has been good for absolutely nothing.”
You hit the nail on the head there.
by big grip
You are on point again with this post. What has really been done to improve our security since 9/11?
In 9/11 our “first responders” from various jurisdictions could not talk to each other on a common radio frequency, and guess what? In Katrina (2005), the first responders could not talk to each other.
Where has all of this money gone? It was probably spent on resources to monitor “subversive” sites like yours, and scrutinizing my posts on this site.
Did you see Coondeneegro lying on Meet the Press Sunday?
Why do they always send us out to defend the absurd?