Why Spying On You Is A Good Thing
Never mind that it's illegal. Never mind that it's immoral. BushCo has used the American media to turn a simple fact (Spying on you is illegal and wrong) into a debatable issue...
Where public opinion-- like choosing an American Idol winner-- will prevail.
But only if you let them, Americans.
If it's OK to spy on Quakers & grandmothers, it had better be OK with you to spy on fundamentalist churches, conservative front groups, and Republican Party machines.
How else can BushCo learn enough about your group to control what your focus is, how effective your message is, and whom you should choose to follow?
White House on PR path over domestic surveillance
By James Gerstenzang, Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times; Times staff writers Peter Wallsten and Greg Miller contributed to this report
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is launching an aggressive effort to convince Americans that a National Security Agency program of domestic eavesdropping is legal and justified.
Think we won the Cold War? Think again.
The Bush Politburo thanks you for your stupidity!
File this under: Who sat beside you at church yesterday? A visitor?
posted by delilahboyd at 6:16 AM
1 Comments:
Not only do Republicans want to spy on activists and people who work for social justice... but they claim that terrorists, for legal purposes, should be considered akin to spies and saboteurs.
In this way, they hope to use the Geneva convention to justify indefinate detentions. (Geneva IV says that spies and saboteurs do not have a right to contact their home governments if they are caught on occupied territory.)
On one hand, Geneva does not apply to the Bush Administration... but then they use the same damn treaty to justify whatever they want.
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