Friday, July 6, 2007

Meet People Who Want Sex / Japanese Sexy Women in Action!

Do those headlines grab your attention (among other things)? Those are just two of the subject lines I grabbed out of my e-mail today, and I must say I noticed those more so than the headline, "Court Dismisses Suit Challenging Domestic Spying." The dismissal was due to the fact that not one of the plaintiffs could prove that they had been spied upon by the US government. The rebuttal from the ACLU was that the plaintiffs were not allowed access to the documents stating just who was being spied upon.
At this point I noticed that no where in these arguments has anyone brought up the sheer legality of the wiretapping. No, of course not, the court needs specifics. But, that does make sense, to a degree. The only way that this could be taken to court is over the specifics. The warrant-less wiretapping issue is too large and has been around for too long to just be thrown in the back of a paddy-wagon and hauled off to the hoosegow. For instance, CNN stated that:

"Electronic surveillance programs run by the NSA have been under fire since December 2005, when The New York Times disclosed that the government was listening in on international phone calls involving people suspected of having ties to terrorists.

Some legal scholars said the program is an illegal and unwarranted intrusion on Americans' privacy, but the Bush administration has defended it as necessary in the battle against the al Qaeda terrorist network."

Notice a few tricky words: terrorists, suspected, ties. Terrorists in this case, I'm assuming(which pisses me off for having to assume), is synonymous with al Qaeda. I'm not sure quite what suspected means or how you get on the list of suspects. Lastly, ties doesn't seem quite concrete enough. Couldn't you have ties to someone because they are your local grocer, or have ties to another because they are your mail-person? Shit, what if you have ties to someone else that has ties? Well, Little Timmy, you're probably fucked.
Remember, terrorist has a very fluid definition, and eventually it will just mean people who disagree.
This is why I'm going back out to find people who want sex, and maybe, just maybe, I'll find some Japanese sexy women in action!

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