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Broke Back Barry???!!!!

Why actually no i have not lost my mind because it is still free which is more than i can say for all the cowards who have given up to the Dictator Obama and his Lackey ENforcer CZARS and SPOKESLIPS..

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But really He killed an Ambassador and some fine Patriots

HE has destroyed our Worldwide Authority and peacekeeping capabilities

ILLEGALLY passed National Healthcare which as everyone is starting to realize is going to devistate our lives

And in the Process has turned this into Socialist Dictatorship

He is nown the process of rounding up the the people who were against him

He is in the process to destroy those wealthy People who don't kiss his butt

WE ARE NOW RUSSIA


HE deserves no Chances or respect

Perception is such a fickle beast.

No. Jack's fairly serious.

ACLU: OBAMA HAS QUADRUPLED WARRANTLESS WIRETAPS



by WARNER TODD HUSTON

The ACLU released a report this week that shows that under Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder, warrantless wiretapping and monitoring of American's electronic communications is "sharply on the rise."

After months of litigation and Freedom of Information Act requests,the ACLU obtained documents from the federal government proving that real-time monitoring of electronic communications inside the U.S. has climbed 60 percent since 2009 and far surpasses monitoring under President Bush.

The ACLU reports that the Dept. of Justice used "pen register" and "trap and trace" techniques 23,535 times in 2009 and 37,616 times in 2011.

A "pen register" captures outgoing data from a phone or email account while "trap and trace" captures incoming data.

During that same time period,the number of people whose telephones were the subject of pen register and trap and trace surveillance more than tripled. In fact, more people were subjected to pen register and trap and trace surveillance in the past two years than in the entire previous decade.

(ACLU's bold above)

"The number of authorizations the Justice Department received to use these devices on individuals' email and network data increased 361% between 2009 and 2011," the ACLU said.

It should be noted that all of this is perpetrated by the Dept. of Justice without obtaining traditional warrants.

The ACLU complained that it has been repeatedly blocked by the Obama administration when seeking disclosure. The ACLU also noted that since Obama became president his administration has repeatedly neglected deadlines required by law to release reports on the DOJ's actions.

The civil rights group charges the federal government with "frustrating democratic oversight" and obviating a basic measure of accountability by neglecting its duties to fulfill these transparency measures.

Warrantless wiretapping,when initiated by the Bush administration,was one of the left's most dear causes,but since Obama came to office -- and been proven to have tremendously increased such wiretapping -- silence has prevailed over the practice.

With our ever increasing technological society, I wonder what the SCOTUS would have to say about whether one has a "reasonable expectation of privacy" during cell-phone conversation?

Obviously, if the state knows that the conversation involves a crime, then listening in w/o a warrant is not unconstitutional.

But, how is the state to know the conversation is actually illegal without listening?

i highly value the Fourth Amendment, but also believe that it must be narrowly tired to 'the times". Cell phone communication, to my knowledge, has never been addressed...

Umm you can get married without having any church involved. I don't think churches should be forced to marry same sex couples but I see no problem with states marrying same sex couples. I personally don't understand why anyone would care. If it's against your faith that's fine but don't go trying to shove your faiths beliefs on anyone else. If people can get married by a judge at city hall, same sex couples should be able to be married the same way with ZERO religion involved. No one seemed to care when a heterosexual couple got married by a judge... there's no religion there, no sacrament. Why weren't the religious nut jobs fighting those marriages? You're free to believe what you want. But when you start trying to get your faiths beliefs made into laws it's no different than muslim's taking over countries and making Sharia Law the legal law's of the land.

Celtic

Stephen,
It that's how it actually worked out, I'd have no problem. But, anyone who thinks that churches won't be forced against their will to perform same sex marriages, once it becomes the law of the land, either by law suit or government mandate, is either naive, or not paying attention.

It's a gay-homo militant extremist thing.....there is no appeasing them.

basically the gay-homo militant extremists just want everyone to tell them what they're doing is ok so they don't have to feel guilty anymore....

When heterosexual couples get married by a judge it's called a marriage. They even have to fill out marriage License. Why would gay couples suddenly have to call it a civil union? It's a marriage just like any straight couple would call it. I don't think it's the left caught up on the word marriage....

They could except you don't have to be married to have a child and there are plenty of married straight couples that choose not to have children. Does that invalidate their marriage?

Of course not. They have a marriage license.

I was married in a church to my first wife but got divorced in a court room.... does that mean I'm still married to her according to the church..??

it was a Seventh Day Adventist church...... I'm prolly screwed...

I doubt they're looking for me right now... if she dies owing somebody money they prolly will tho.....