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angrychair

(8,677 posts)
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 12:02 AM Jun 2013

What have you got to hide?

Last edited Fri Jun 7, 2013, 01:00 AM - Edit history (1)

Are you now or have you ever been...

You are with us or against us

Congress is willing to have 6+ hearings and likely spending hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars, on if the IRS was over-stepping its authority about how it went about approving tax exempt status to groups that should have never got it anyway. At the same time, THESE SAME PEOPLE are willing to blindly except that other government organizations should have authority to gather and store information on EVERY AMERICAN that makes a phone call or uses the Internet and just believe that they would never use that information for the wrong reasons...because the rules say they can't do that.
You know, the "rules"...the "oversight"...just like the FBI never abused their surveillance powers during the 50's and 60's...Members of Congress never abused their power to force people to give often false or unfounded evidence against their friends and co-workers about being a "red", a communist or our president, his staff, intelligence agencies and the military would never take part in a operation to sell drugs to buy weapons for a group of people they were forbidden to give weapons to by Congress...You know the executive branch would NEVER lie and force others to lie to the American people, Congress, and the UN by creating false justifications for invading a country in the middle east. Given the exceptional track record of various government organizations for following the rules and using information in their care for only the right reasons, we should trust them now...they would never misuse our phone and Internet records.

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What have you got to hide? (Original Post) angrychair Jun 2013 OP
They lie. blkmusclmachine Jun 2013 #1
From the Pet Shop Boys' song 'Integral' uriel1972 Jun 2013 #2
I'll air out all my dirty laundry davidpdx Jun 2013 #3

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)
2. From the Pet Shop Boys' song 'Integral'
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 03:04 AM
Jun 2013

"If you've got nothing to hide
You've got nothing to fear,
If you've done something wrong
You shouldn't even be here"

They hold all the cards and you have to bet not seeing your hand. You do trust them to tell you if you get it right don't you?

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