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Showing Original Post only (View all)The argument about domestic spying isn't one the other side is having to any extent [View all]
The right and the Republicans are fine with almost any level of domestic spying with very few exceptions, leave their guns alone and talk enough about Jeebus, Free Markets and Mooslim Terrism and they'll happily goosestep into something that makes 1984 look like a Disney toon while calling anyone that doesn't cheer loud enough a traitor.
If there is any significant opposition to domestic surveillance it's going to have to come from the left and the Democrats.
What I see so far doesn't make me particularly sanguine about the prospects of even slowing the growth of surveillance.
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Fumesucker
Jun 2013
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I'm not sure about that. Many of the whistleblowers themselves are libertarians or
leveymg
Jun 2013
#2
There may be a disconnect between the GOP pols and the rank & file within the IC.
leveymg
Jun 2013
#8
It's either give up any privacy to government intrusion or a major city gets vaporized
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#20
When Republicans get back in power these spying programs will be used to get dirt on liberals
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#25
The SCOTUS had no problem sidestepping democracy and installing Smirk and Sneer in the White House
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#31
Hell, even some Democrats embrace spying on the people. Obama, Feinstein, et al.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2013
#24
Bear in mind that they couldn't use the issue to split us if some were not arguing in favor
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#28
How can every terrorist act from Boston to Benghazi be Obama's fault if Obama is overstepping on
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2013
#29