Detaining Miranda under the Terrorism Act is like arresting a pot smoker for murder.

[longship]

7. Indeed! That's my opinion as well.

I despise the snooping. There needs to be oversight and checks and balances which our government seems to be reticent to do.

This is a cultural effect, bred by decades of rhetoric and argument by people who are not looking after our interests, let alone those of our Constitution.

I choose not to make this a partisan issue although it is inevitably political. Unfortunately the USA is caught up with ever present bipartisan thinking -- the two party system which pervades all political thought here. So one inevitably has to filter ones position through that framework. It is a sad reality here.

As a socialist, I have sympathy for those who are disappointed with President Obama. I am, too. But any alternative under our current system would be far, far worse.

Rather than scream at reality I prefer to offer solutions which have a plausible ability to work within the system we have, and holds out for future change. We could learn by history. The Republican Party didn't get the way it is today overnight. Neither did the Democratic Party. It is going to take a rather grand effort to change things. It took the Republicans decades to do it. If we want to do the same, it may take years.

My advise is for people to run for precinct delegate and rebuild the party from bottom up. That's what the Republican loonies we see today did beginning in the late 70's, early 80's.

It's a long slog. That's why I have little patience for professed Democrats here who seem to only want to scream about the way things are going yet don't see that there might be a solution.

We are not organized. That's the problem.