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Blu, please release your CAPS LOCK, stop yelling and repeating yourself. It's just annoying and I would like to enjoy our dialog.

Couple of points:

1. Don't know why you keep referring to socialism when I'm speaking of rights guaranteed by the Constitution, a document written long before there was a socialist movement of consequence.

2. You evidently haven't read the history of the 30s, 40s and 50s to understand what government can do when it overreaches in the cause of protecting America. My father was a postal worker who was involved in leftest politics years earlier in his youth. He was never a danger to his country and by the 40s was not politically active. Yet the FBI investigated him, interviewed his neighbors and co-workers (I know this only because of an FOIA response that still had sections redacted nearly 60 years later). Kinda chilling? My father-in-law was a well known actor who knew a lot of leftists and some communists, but was never one. He refused to tell HUAC who he knew socially and was blacklisted. His career was killed for decades.

Of course, there's a balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our lives. But the desire to lift all limits of what government can do assures it will overreach and damage our liberties. Aren't our liberties what America is all about?

P.S. - I'm one of those rare Democrats who points the finger at Clinton as well as Bush for not taking the Al Quaeda threat seriously enough.

When the RIGHTS, demanded by a few paranoid people, (unless duly warranted) to PRIVACY, are being held higher than the moral issue of safety for the American people, it's time to talk straight.

We, as the majority, have the RIGHT to use "common sense" and defer from the LEGAL ABUSE of our system by criminals. America is being brainwashed into thinking we are a "failed nation" and something or someone HAS to take care of us.

Socialism (liberalism)is the belief that government should pay for your groceries, home, insurance, school care...sound familiar? We are there.

Let Americans claim COMMON SENSE again. Most Americans cling to the fact that this nation is still very young and wealthy beyond imagine.
But there is a political machine in play, to give the terrorist and criminals comfort, and is the same political machine that believes in Socialism.

Will it be a few liberal politicans that decide the TERRORIST have rights over our own safety?

What good is FREE INSURANCE...if we get gassed or bombed?

And where will the DEMOCRATIC finger be pointing if it happens? BUSH DID IT!

Yes, these companies need immunity if they are going to comply. No they should not be held liable for what the government does. AND Yes, there should be safeguards put in place. President Bush says there are safeguards already in place.

One of my biggest pet peeves with regard to the quote is people who make statements like that when they "aren't allowed" to back them up. That's unethical and divisive. If only we could find a "neutral source" to look it over.

I don't see why they can't do this on a temporary basis while they have time to look things over and come up with a better plan.

By the way, I do believe in the right to privacy and the moral issue about Roe v Wade lies in a person's right to terminate another life. I know you won't agree, but I had to say it.

Have a great day:-)

I would rather the gov go through a justify telling a telecom to do something instead of the telecom just taking the gov word or pressure to do it.
If a little company can stand up and say show me the warrant to justify it then why didn't the rest. I kind of thought the idea of warrants was to protect a company from doing what was requested of them. I think that before granting immunity the records should be gone through to find out was done and if it was justified. Kind of late to go back after immunity and you find out that they did things that should have been obvious that were over the line.