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In reply to the discussion: Strange how the same people running around calling everyone Authoritarians [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Note that I have a signature line indicating who I plan to vote for in 2016. Nobody is staying home. Please note that I am asking questions about the program.
It is the people who are afraid to criticize the program that link it almost exclusively to Obama. We all know that Obama inherited this albatross from Bush. It's time to severely reign in the surveillance and put someone in charge who is truly independent from whoever runs the current administration, whether a Republican or Democrat, someone devoted to voting rights (because if this program continues, it could be used to interfere with the outcomes of elections), someone devoted to all our rights and not part of our government.
It is shortsighted to think that those of us attacking the surveillance are attacking Obama. From his statements, I think he does not even understand the program well. This is a program by of and for the military-industrial complex. We need to curtail it, severely curtail it or become a nation under their steel-soled toes.