Change You Better Believe In... Or Else

Government should do everything!!!

Government should do nothing!!!

Which side is entirely right all the time?

Do you think a Republican, or Independent President would be different? Do you think anyone would give up the power to control the masses? There are many reasons to vote, or not vote for a particular candidate. Although I dislike this aspect of President Obama, there are many others, which I agree.

I am a liberal independent and this is one of the reasons why I will not support a second term for Obama.

The pro Obama people here are unreal. The beginning sentence in the article reads, "The Obama administration is pushing to make it easier for the government to tap into internet and e-mail communications." Read it again fools. Obama is trying to make it easier. It makes no difference who started it the fact remains that Obama owns what happens now and that is that. Blame Bush or anyone else for the 400 vans that HOmeland Security bought with x-ray technology that enables the gov. to see into your home and car as they drive by. We have virtual nudity now at the airports to get on to a plane. The courts are saying that its ok for the feds to place a GPS tracker on your car willy nilly.
It is the same as spending. The great liberal defense to the spending spree this regime is on with the help of Congress is addressed by saying that the Republicans did it under Bush. So what. Where is the relevance. Does that make it ok for us to continue it? How about some intellectual honesty. Liberals disgust me. Evidently it is ok if they do it but not ok if anyone else does.The greatest danger we face is Obama and liberals on the Hill regardless of D or R.
This article addresses the encroaching government control we face. It cannot be done without the complicity of both parties. Bush didn't do Iraq or spend without both parties. Obama didn't spend more and encroach more on our freedoms with the Dems alone. The problems transcend party affiliation. This is why I am an independent. If we keep giving up our freedoms to government control we will wind up with no freedoms or whatever freedoms the government lets us have, something like the U.N. Bill of Rights. There is even a bill in the Senate now that will control your raising of animals for meat or pleasure or vegetables to eat. Get a grip. The government will not solve our problems. While they split us apart they are then implementing more and more controls over the people. Wake up.

Well this is BS but saying it like this was all the work of president Obama IS also BS. the Cops of America ( a name I made up) want to have these powers to make their jobs easyer and they lobby hard for these types of powers all the time and will claim that so and as politician does not support law enforcment if the politician does not capitulate. However this is rediculess they have the ability already to employ whatever decription or other eavsedroping equipment currently available as long as they bring probable cause before a judge and get a warrent. This is them trying to circumvent the oversight that law enforcement needs to remain uncorrupted.

Can't blame Bush for this anymore. Obama took the ball and ran it further downfield.

But wait---wasn't this already a major part of the expanded government powers that George W. granted Homeland Security under the Patriot Act?

-------" Your Golden Hero wants to eavesdrop on your private conversations."----

And he is able to do it because of the patriotic and humanitarian efforts of such heroes as George W. Bush, Dick Chenney, and the Republican Party--the wonderful folks who gave us The Patriot Act, rescinding the Constitution of United States and the Bill of Rights.

Thanks guys!

So, what is the change that we can believe in? Are the Republicans going to repeal the The Patriot Act II ?

Are the Republicans going to reverse the clause that says private companies can not be sued over liabilities from illegal disclosures of information to government agencies that acted illegally to gather and use private information? That is a clause of Patriot Act II inserted after the Supreme Court declared actions by the FBI and a number of other agencies violated the principles of unreasonable search and seizure and due process.

And the security state expands again, thanks a lot Obama.

Well he voted for FISA and telecom immunity, it isn't entirely surprising.

For being a constitutional law expert, he kind of fucking sucks at respecting the most important parts of it.

YOU NEED A WARRANT.

What is so hard to understand about that? It's pathetic.

I must admit, this one bothers me and I don't really get personal email. Some friends send me funny, or inspirational emails, but I don't communicate via email. I learned very young, don't put anything on paper that you don't want someone else to read. I guess that's changed to 'don't put anything in your computer that you don't want someone else to read.

As of today Obama hasn't listened to anything the American public has had to say about anything. So why would he want to tap in to our computers ? I know why but I don't think he really cares one bit about what we think as people, because we are way below him, we are racist, fear mongers, morons, there are a hundred things we have been called by the Democrats in office. I have never seen any Administration in history call the general public like this group has done. They are in office for one thing and one thing only, themselves. They could care less what happens to the American people !!! They seem to thumb their noses at the little people, and talk down to every single one of us. Change we can believe in !!!! Ya got what you voted for.

Close to 3000 people in New York, a few hundred at the Pentagon, and a plane load in Pennsylvania gave their lives in order to ensure the Patriot Act passed. The Governments allow circumstances to evolve to the point that the people demand their rights be infringed upon. The Ideals of Personal Freedom, that was the founding philosophy of our country, is gone. Replaced by Corporate greed, that has usurped our Democracy. While we race around town, consuming said Corporation's goods and services.

The left wing media will barely bat an eye at this either. When Bush&co tried to do this the NewYork Times had pages devoted to calling him out. With the messiah however now it seems ok for the president to listen into what ever your grandma is talking about.

As if Big Daddy mcCain would have been any different. The Patriot act was a major victory for the clampdown.

he worse than bush!

the dude grew up in a ghetto. how are we suppose to trust him?

This shows how dumb the FBI is. The best encryption software, and most common, is programed outside the US.

OpenSSL, OpenSSH, OpenBSD, PuTTY, Linux, and I think Truecrypt are all based outside the US, there are others as well. Most Internet servers use OpenSSL as does Opera Browser and our government relies on it as well. They even certified it for use on sensitive information.

The reason why is that we used to prevent the export of strong encryption, so open source programmers moved and started anew. They didn't come back when that law was lifted either.

Since they do not operate here and since they are open source and hence do not sell the software they would not be covered under this law.

I have a T Shirt I like to wear with the slogan, " Had enough change yet?"
I agree with the golden hero description. Good Post.

That is pure stupidity.
Don't these people realize how the internet works?
The only people who use regular, mainstream communication systems are regular, mainstream people.

The bad guys use communication systems on servers located overseas, where the government can't get to them.

It's easy to set one up, with a web forum type interface with a proprietary internal email system, so the whole terrorist cell can keep in touch without anyone being able to stop them.

How do you think the Torrent websites stay alive?
And the pedophiles?

Tapping gmail and hotmail just annoys us regular folk who use gmail and hotmail.

And BTW- that last paragraph was beneath you.
"Your Golden Hero"? Calling Obama a sloth? Come on now.