People, this blog will be about how the policies by President Bush scare me. Particularly his support of wire tapping and invasion of privacy will be discussed. This is a violation of our constitutional rights! The United States is not facing an outburst of “terrorist spies” among its population. This is just like the Cold War only a bit milder where the government thought that anybody and their dog was a communist. This is ridiculous. The government is spending who knows how much of our tax dollars to spy on us. You and I are paying President Bush to monitor all of our phone conversations (even the naughty ones with our sweethearts) and to track where we have been and what we have searched on the internet. What next, are they going to put devices in our heads and hear our thoughts? Or better yet would they come to my house and arrest me if I told my friend that I wanted Bush to die…by killer piranhas of course? Beyond the fact that our government is keeping an eye on us because we are all potential terrorist (the phrase guilty until proven innocent), how effective is this program? In my opinion, not very. Out of the seven or so years the government may have found two potential spies using wiretapping. Out of all the billions of dollars that have been spent only two or so have been found guilty, that is sad. Well it’s not that surprising since it is common knowledge that the phones and the internet are tapped what terrorist would communicate using those means? Unless they spoke in code and then the FBI and the CIA will have to recognize that a code was being used out of the thousands of conversations they hear an hour. This is just like finding a needle in a haystack. How can you effectively find spies by tapping the wires of 303,907,819 people? All you do is waste money and time and abuse Presidential powers.
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I recently read a fellow classmates blog article entitled Ty to Listen to Logic for Once, and it left me with a one, nagging question throughout the read.
Is this article merely an opinion or based on hard evidence? I never saw any links to any evidence proving that President Bush is "tapping the wires of 303,907,819 people." Where is that number coming from? I find it very hard to believe that he is listening into everyone's phone line. This ability is used for people the government find suspicious, not the entire country.
I was also left with the impression that the writer was unsure of his facts.
"Out of the seven or so years the government may have found two potential spies using wiretapping."
That just does not sound like concrete evidence and if it is, is not written as such to make the reader BELIVE that it is fact. Belief is everything. This can come sometimes from the way you write things. Using words such as "may" do not sound very conclusive.
The opinions are there, it is just hard to swing my opinions or think along these lines without some evidence to back these ideas up.
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