This is why ALL liberals *should* oppose dragnet surveillance

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55. Well, we are Verizon customers who, as far as I know, are not under suspicion for any crime, let

alone anything that would threaten the security of this country. We know now that any phone calls we made since March of this year, have been tracked. That gives me a creepy feeling as someone living in a democracy. We knew Bush was using the Telecoms to spy on the American people and we knew they altered the law he broke to save him, but we did not expect that a Democratic administration which had spoken out against the draconian destruction of our rights, to USE that bill which was so controversial to begin with. We expect to start seeing steps taken to reverse Bush policies since we all agreed, on the left anyhow, how bad they were for this country.

I agree with your last sentence about incompetence, there is also to be considered, what Nixon did to his political enemies. To allow any government to have this much information about all of its citizens is just plain dangerous. Something the country, including back then even Republicans, agreed on. That is how we got the FISA Bill in the first place, to ensure that the Intel Community had to get a warrant BEFORE spying on anyone's telephone activity.

It makes zero sense to be told we 'can just trust them'. No, we cannot, even Jefferson warned that people should not even trust THEM, the Founding Fathers with any extraordinary powers.