They have to
apply for the warrants within 72 hours of already having started the surveillance. The Administration does not have to delay for so much as 10 seconds a surveillance upon some American citizen receiving a celly from Mr. Ali al Queda overseas. As long as they start the process of seeking the rubber stamp warrant within 3 days, they can tap the phone without so much as a by-your-leave. All good and legal.
Forget that they've provided no facts for their treacherous course of action in defying FISA, but I can see no freaking
purpose in it other than the acquisition of dictatorial power for its own sake.
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On the poverty front ...
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Again, "It's worse elsewhere" means it's okay to ignore problems at home?
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Ah, if I could only say in a paragraph what GD can say in one line.
Without stooping to the canard that poverty in Detroit is so much better than poverty in Haiti ... tell me, scaeageles, would
you like to live below the poverty line in the U.S.? C'mon, you'd have your microwave oven. Would the brand of posh poverty we have here in America be alright for you and your family?
Or how would you like to be YOU right now, and also be one of the 45 million Americans without health insurance? Would that be ok, as long as you didn't live in Canada?
How many people have to be below the poverty line in this country for it to be a crisis? How many must be without health insurance for it to be a crisis? When do budget deficits reach crisis levels, and just how eroded must civil liberties become to meet
your definition of crisis?
Or is it even a matter of how much or how many? Is it rather just a matter of
who?