Here's a shocker: Americans want to have their cake and eat it, too.
I wish it didn't snow so much in Canada, because I'm seriously considering getting the fuck out of here. Apparently unfamiliar with the concept of the slippery slope, many Americans are willing to leverage their civil liberties in order to escape the "threat" of terrorism. Yeah, those pesky inalienable rights just keep getting in the way of our ability to properly police this country.
Seriously, why can't we go back to the good old days, when the CIA and the FBI just illegally wiretapped suspected terrorists. What was wrong with that? If you find an actual terrorist cell, something tells me due process goes right out the goddamn window anyway. Spies are going to spy whether it's legal or not. That's why they're effing spies! You do your job, and we'll pretend we don't know that the Feds spy on Americans. Everybody wins. But writing this shit into law is only going to hurt the rest of us non-terrorists. Allowing the Bush administration (or any administration) legal carte blanche on wiretaps and surveillance is a big step on the road to further eroding our tenuous hold on the Bill of Rights.
Call it hyperbole if you must, but GEORGE BUSH IS A SERIOUSLY EVIL FUCKING NIGHTMARE. Why does America keep bending over?? Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us... you... you can't get fooled again.
**UPDATE** I'm pulling Patrick's Ben Franklin quotation up from the comments because it pretty much says it all:
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security"
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