This week the Democrats have scored another huge point; sadly that point is a Democratic point, which is to say it is stupid at best; and dangerous at worst. It seems President Bush, with thorough oversight from the Democrats,(none of whom objected until The NY TIMES oddly made them by publishing the story) authorized the NSA to spy on Al Qaeda members inside the United States. This, they have pointed out, is very bad. Never mind that Congress gave the President statutory authority to pursue Al Qaeda by "any means necessary". The Democrats apparently took this to mean the President could kill them, but not listen in on their phone conversations? Unbeknownst to Democrats, old laws against wiretapping without a warrant do not apply if there is a statutory exception. Congress clearly provided an exception in the case of Al Queda. And, the Democrats scored again by holding up the renewal of the Patriot Act primarily because it allowed the gov't access to one's ( Al-Qaeda's) library records.
So what is the real reason the Democrats seem so eager to help Al Qaeda? There are two reasons: they like America and Republicans even less than they like Al Qaeda. Bleeding heart Democrats were once known to be pro criminal, and now they are know to be pro terrorist. They were, and to a large but quieter extent, still are pro criminal because they believe an evil, capitalist, individualistic, Republican America produces criminals, and so they do everything they can to coddle criminals and blame America for producing them. Fortunately, as crime rose, the Democrats descended. But now the Democrats are back at the same concept with their pro-terrorist theme.
Of course, if you ask a Democrat why they are pro terrorist they won't say too much. What they will say is: "we live on a slippery slope", or "don't ask for whom the bell tolls." Interestingly, these are sentiments with which freedom loving Republicans have much sympathy. If Jeffersonian America stands primarily for freedom from gov't then of course Republicans are skeptical about a gov't newly empowered to look at even terrorists' library records, or listen to their phone calls, because gov't, in its diabolical way, might then feel free to look at everyone's library records and phone calls, and then do what ever horrible things big gov't has always done throughout the world history our Framers knew so well.
But, in fact, all of America lives on a slippery slope all of the time. For example, we can't disband the military or police forces on the civil libertarian ground that one day they will take over America. We can't let criminals free on the grounds that one day the police will lock us all up as criminals. We can't stop gov't from building roads and bridges on the ground that one day , in their corrupt way, they'll pave over all of America or build a million bridges to nowhere with our tax dollars. We can't prohibit them from printing money on the ground that they might one day flood the world with a Weimarian supply of it. We can't ban heterosexual marriage on the ground that one day it might lead to homosexual marriage. In short, while our Framers knew that gov't is naturally stupid, corrupt, and deadly, they also knew that a limited form of it was necessary, might function reasonably if properly constrained, and, given their Republican Constitution, might not grow to the deadly leviathan proportions they feared more than anything.
Sadly, the Democrats never bought the American dream of freedom. They have morphed the gov't into the very leviathan the Jeffersonian Framers fought the American Revolution to avoid. So why then would the Democrats pretend to be so fearful of a tiny increase in gov't power (looking at terrorists' library records, for example) when increasing gov't power has been their subversive stock in trade throughout all of American history? Answer: our Framers brilliantly brainwashed all of us to worship at the civil liberties alter and Democrats are now shamelessly exploiting that terminology with full knowledge that most Americans don't realize that the Democrats themselves are the perfect objectification of a massive civil liberties catastrophe. They openly provide an aspirin with a seemingly caring hand while secretly administering a deadly poison with the other.
If the Democrats really care about civil liberties why don't they become Republicans? Why on earth worry about the library records of a few terrorist who would merrily dance in the streets at the sight of us dying slowly from a chemical or biological attack? Why not worry that every innocent American individual and business must hand over complete financial records to the gov't each year at tax time, for nothing? If we had, for example, a VAT (value added tax) about 150 million individuals and businesses could be freed of the intimate and extensive relationship with the gov't that Democrats seemingly love, regardless of its staggering inefficiency and the massive civil liberties violation it represents. In addition, the govt controls or regulates most of health care; so has detailed health records on all of us, they can and do track credit card records, cell phone usage, email, all travel, and in my town even require a complete list of all personal property. The Democrats say they want privacy when in reality they stand for nothing but gov't.
This comparatively huge and very anti America manifestation of gov't power, directed at 300 million innocent Americans, is much loved by Democrats because it is part of the big gov't, Socialist puzzle they have been trying to piece together for 200 years, even as they deceitfully and loudly object to gentle eavesdropping on 50 or so suspected psychotic butchers who would sing with joy if they could blow our children's arms and legs off. The Democrats' concern with civil liberties is to simply exploit them, despite the potentially catastrophic consequences, for short term political gain while knowing full well that their very existence makes a complete mockery of the civil liberties concept.
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Ted Baiamonte
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