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In reply to the discussion: I was stopped today at the Bus Stop by the TSA. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)There is lots of information in this thread and no it is not 'cool' that Bush's policies, fought so hard by Democrats, as you surely must remember, from the moment he began implementing them with Homeland Security, Patriot Act, TSA Rapiscans. Turns out we Democrats were correct, as each new step that was predicted by Civil Liberties, as early as 2002.
Surely you remember when we on the left attempted to point out the dangers of these policies, that one day they would be expanded to just what is described in this OP (not the first report of this btw) we were told by Bush Supporters, that we were, just as you implied here, conspiracy theorists and the favorite response to Democrats from the Right was 'if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear'.
Hard to believe anyone would forget that opposing these policies is, and always was a Democratic issue.
If the 'right' is now concerned, all I can say is 'we told you so morons'. And I would be happy to go visit them to remind them of how THEY were in support of all of this throughout the Bush years.
It would be strange to see anyone on the Left who was around when these policies first began supporting them now, in any way. Thankfully I haven't noticed that to any great extent as the Civil Liberties Union and other Civil Rights organizations continue to fight these abuses of civil liberties.