Strange how the same people running around calling everyone Authoritarians

[cherokeeprogressive]

240. You don't alert because you think it's an abuse of the system?

What do you want, a thank you for not alerting on my post? Fuck that. Allow me to introduce myself: My name is Chris. Feel free to think of me as that guy who doesn't care whether or not you alert on his posts. You don't alert "as it is an abuse of the system"? What next? You don't use onramps because they're an abuse of the Interstate System?

Call me a bigot if you think I'm a bigot. Grow up. I voted for Barack Obama the Candidate, and I voted for President Barack Obama's reelection. Go back to election night and search for my posts. I refer to him as either Barack Obama or President Obama, but you simply refer to him as "a black man", then imply that I'm a bigot? A bigot I'm not, nor am I a teabagger. I don't vote for republicans because of my dislike for bigotry.

Now for the really funny part of your post. You say I'm paranoid. Paranoid for mentioning the authorities pounding on doors in the middle of the night, all because of criss-crossed telephone records the federal government is constitutionally barred from collecting (I'll come back to the constitutional part). Now, what do you bring to the table to bolster your argument that I'm paranoid? CAR-BOMBINGS. Do you see anything wrong with this picture? I'm paranoid for not wanting law enforcement at my door and you use warm and fuzzy car bombings to bolster your argument. Just what "reality based community" do you live in? I'm as likely to be killed in a car-bombing as I am by falling sausage. How many car bombings have there been in the US since 1996? And you think there have been NONE because of the NSA? How often though, does one state authority or another beat down someone's door in the middle of the night? Or beat down the wrong door, and kill someone? How about every fucking week?

As for my problem with the data collection, which you see as a reason to lump me in with the paulites...

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

You know as well as I do that the Bill of Rights doesn't actually confer rights on citizens, but rather limits what the federal government can do to citizens. Now, I don't see anything in the text of the Fourth Amendment (that's it in the paragraph above, in case you didn't recognize it) saying "since car bombs are bad, and bad guys sometimes use phones, the government is authorized to collect data pertaining to all phone calls, cross-referencing all data in an effort to separate good guys from bad guys and starting from the assumption that all persons are bad". Do you see anything in the paragraph above saying that? Because I don't.

Wanting to see the country burn rather than see "a black man" succeed as President. Wanting to die in a terrorist attack rather than watch people associated with car bombings. Yeah, you have me pegged alright. You are one serious piece o' work. From a "reality based community" no less.