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In reply to the discussion: If tomorrow Obama changed his mind and decided the surveillance program was all wrong [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)6. You will continue to argue for universal surveillance if Obama decides it's not wise? n/t
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If tomorrow Obama changed his mind and decided the surveillance program was all wrong [View all]
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
OP
...and I'll STILL make the point that Obama broke no law and was the best happy medium of a bad ....
uponit7771
Jun 2013
#3
You will continue to argue for universal surveillance if Obama decides it's not wise? n/t
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#6
I don't argue for "universal" (good try) surveillance NOW! I argue what Obama is doing is NOT what..
uponit7771
Jun 2013
#9
Surveilling everyone certainly could be argued as being universal surveillance
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#13
I wih people would ask Congressmen what they thought of the laws that they passed
Rosa Luxemburg
Jun 2013
#4
you know they would and they would act like they were against it the whole time! nt
boilerbabe
Jun 2013
#8
These programs are funded by congress and under congressional oversight.
Agnosticsherbet
Jun 2013
#16
You said the Congress mandated these programs and the President had no option.
BlueStreak
Jun 2013
#33
My question was about those of us down here in the cheap seats, what our reaction would be
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#25
You would consider Obama as being ill advised if he were to discontinue the surveillance?
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#29
Of course. The propeller stops spinning for an afternoon and cranks up in the other direction...
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
#21
Would you continue to argue for the surveillance programs in question if Obama disowned them?
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#28
If the USSC were to rule that these dragnet warrants are constitutional...
OilemFirchen
Jun 2013
#34