[scaeagles]

Calling the fourth amendment, which is part of the bill of rights, a bipartisan amendment shows a lack of historical knowledge. There wasn't a two party system at that point in the history of the US. The Constitutional convention at which the Constitution and Bill of Rights were penned had nothing to do with bipartisanship in the least. This is why I was trying to get you to define it.

I didn't say Bush had nothing to do with it. The SWIFT monitoring is new in the post 9/11 era. Monitoring of bank records is not (note the reference to Supreme Court decision over 30 years old saying domestic banking records are not private). Been around for a long, long time, prior to the Bush administration. Yet everything that you consider to be an invasion of privacy is somehow the fault of and directly caused by the Bush administration.

Be pissed at the program. Fine. I have no problem with someone who wants to argue against it.

Anyone who is so blinded by political rage that requires finger pointing in the same direction for everything they dislike, regardless of the history of those things, is irrational and cannot be taken seriously on such subjects.

Due to the confrontational content of my post, please note that my signature line does not apply to any conversation I have with anyone here. I just put it in because I thought it was funny.