Comments on: CRS on “The Protect America Act” http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/08/crs_on_the_protect_america_act.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:03:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: DigitalCommando http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/08/crs_on_the_protect_america_act.html/comment-page-1#comment-884 DigitalCommando Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:32:38 +0000 http://fasweb.beacontec.com/blog/secrecy/2007/08/crs_on_the_protect_america_act.html#comment-884 Kinda makes you wonder if the "decider" is actually writing these himself, continuing his legacy as the supreme commangler of the english language. The time has come where we must begin to strip any president from having the power or ability to violate the constitution, or suspend any portion of it, even during times of war. Not one boot should step upon a foreign soil without the full approval of all three parties, senate, congress & president. Any ONE of the three could stop a war, but all three must start it. It's time to bring king george back to earth, and prevent another one of him ever appearing again. A wise man said "Man will know no freedom until the last king is strangled, with the entrails of the last priest." Kinda makes you wonder if the “decider” is actually writing these himself, continuing his legacy as the supreme commangler of the english language. The time has come where we must begin to strip any president from having the power or ability to violate the constitution, or suspend any portion of it, even during times of war. Not one boot should step upon a foreign soil without the full approval of all three parties, senate, congress & president. Any ONE of the three could stop a war, but all three must start it. It’s time to bring king george back to earth, and prevent another one of him ever appearing again. A wise man said “Man will know no freedom until the last king is strangled, with the entrails of the last priest.”

]]> By: Greg http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/08/crs_on_the_protect_america_act.html/comment-page-1#comment-883 Greg Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:10:44 +0000 http://fasweb.beacontec.com/blog/secrecy/2007/08/crs_on_the_protect_america_act.html#comment-883 <i>Hasty, poorly considered?</i> I tend to believe that it would be more accurate to say that it was very carefully crafted, so that the administration can claim whatever they want, when they get criticized about their excesses. Politicians thrive on ambiguity, but this administration, and the people behind it, have taken it to new extremes in order to justify a wholesale crackdown on just about any perceived threat to their vision of an America that not only dominates the world, but has to tools to keep its citizenry in line. Hasty, poorly considered?

I tend to believe that it would be more accurate to say that it was very carefully crafted, so that the administration can claim whatever they want, when they get criticized about their excesses. Politicians thrive on ambiguity, but this administration, and the people behind it, have taken it to new extremes in order to justify a wholesale crackdown on just about any perceived threat to their vision of an America that not only dominates the world, but has to tools to keep its citizenry in line.

]]> By: PW http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/08/crs_on_the_protect_america_act.html/comment-page-1#comment-882 PW Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:32:02 +0000 http://fasweb.beacontec.com/blog/secrecy/2007/08/crs_on_the_protect_america_act.html#comment-882 Thanks once again, Steve. The carelessness recently associated with really important legislation is pretty shocking. Poorly written bills (sometimes deliberately), bills not read before being voted on (ditto)= crummy attitudes towards democracy. Thanks once again, Steve. The carelessness recently associated with really important legislation is pretty shocking. Poorly written bills (sometimes deliberately), bills not read before being voted on (ditto)= crummy attitudes towards democracy.

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