Hello:

Is it possible to win a war without attacking the Constitution too? I say yes. The dufus in chief and his cohorts amongst you, say no.

I dunno. There's this twisted Republican mentality that I've observed but can't, for the life of me, figure it out. It goes something like this. When I was in the joint, there was this guy who got caught diddling his girl in the visiting room. So they put out a bulletin telling us how they were going to punish us. Huh?

Yes, that guy did screw up and here's what we're gonna do to you. We're gonna take away your visiting room. Huh?

So, here we were, just minding our business and we get attacked. We know who the bad guy is, but Bush said, here's what we're gonna do to you, and passed the Patriot Act. Huh?

I guess what I'm saying is I think you can win a war without declaring war on the Constitution. As a matter a fact, I really don't see the connection between punishing us and winning a war.

Huh? Maybe you can splain it to me.

excon

inthebox

Ex:

I'm okay with "reasonable" surveillance, what gets me is invasion of privacy from people wanting to sell you stuff.

Go to a website and bam, spam in your email the next day. My cell phone co, texting me aboput some new feature ... blahh, all these lenders that have acess to your credit score, credit cards sending you checks in the mail that you never requested...

So if my privacy is being violated by all these folks: to me, the government doing its constitutional duty to protect by gathering intelligence on head chopping, homicidal bombing radicals is no big deal.

N0help4u

yeah now they are putting commercials on your cell phone
and making refrigerators that when you run out of milk and ketchup they play a milk commercial and a ketchup commercial
Shopping carts that add up the calories and tell you "you need to put 250 calories worth of stuff back on the shelf" and "you are done shopping".

I can't imagine the gov wanting to listen in on me for more than a minute.......Hi mom. Yeah day went okay. Did you go out in the crummy weather today to the symphony?.....