Bush Wants Right to ISP Customer Data 565
bryan8m writes "Wired is reporting that the Bush administration wants back the ability to make ISPs turn over information on their customers. The U.S. Court of Appeals is handling the case and of course the feds want to hide details of it from the public. The law giving the government the power to seize communications records from 1986 was strengthened in 2001 by the Patriot Act and struck down after the ACLU challenged it."
Re:Hiding the law from the people who it is direct (Score:3, Informative)
It's worse than you say: (Score:5, Informative)
In my opinion it is worse than you say.
Here are reviews of 35 books and 3 movies that discuss how bad it really is: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government [futurepower.org].
Background information: History surrounding the U.S. war with Iraq: Four short stories [futurepower.org]. The U.S. government declared war on Arabs long before there was Arab terrorism against the U.S.: New York Governor Pataki's statements are equivalent to a declaration of war. [futurepower.org]
The U.S. government is bankrupt. The value of the U.S. dollar is dropping fast because the Bush administration is rapidly borrowing money [futurepower.org]. Who is doing the borrowing? These people: U.S. Federal Deficit by Political Party [futurepower.org]. If you are a U.S. citizen, you owe: $26,289.01 [brillig.com], even if you are only 1 year old.
There's plenty of blame to go around ... (Score:5, Informative)
Congress creates the bills, the President merely signs them into law.
Where is all the uproar about the Congressmen who voted for these laws? I see plenty of anti-Bush sentiment here, but where's the outrage towards *your* representatives who approve of this?
Get angry all you want at the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, but don't give a free pass to the occupants of both the Hart and Russell Senate Office Buildings, they typically stick around a lot longer than a President.
Send it in then: (Score:2, Informative)
Here's the address that you can send your ISP info to: president@whitehouse.gov
Terrorism (Score:5, Informative)
The secretary of state, I think.
And here's the definition of terrorism. Think "direct action activism".
Re:Why Bother with the Courts? (Score:4, Informative)
There was once when the 'republican" party and the 'conservatives' meant smaller govt, less spending, and less intrusiveness.
A small limited government was the platform for the Democrat party and liberals to begin with. Thomas Jefferson was a liberal democrat who wanted a small and limited government. That I am aware of the only tyme the Republican party said they wanted small government was from Nixon onward. Well also Eisenhower who came up with the term "military industrial complex". He started the Viet Nam War though strengthening said complex. Nixon when his presidental committee released a report saying hemp, marijuana, should be legalized he said he didn't care what the recommendation was, there was no way he would allow it to be legalized. It was because of the Nixon Republicans that the Libertarian Party was started. Reagan increased the size of the federal government, increased federal police powers, and pushed for maximizing minimum sentencing for drugs. This is what conservatives wanted back in TJ's tyme, a strong federal government.
FalconBush said he wanted to be the dictator (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Look! He is making his Tribal identification cr (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Why Bother with the Courts? (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:That is so true (Score:2, Informative)
They are well on their way towards making Conservative synonomous with Fascist wich is not good. I may be rather liberal myself but I share some of the same beleifs as conservatives such as a the preference for a free market system over the government controlled economy preferred by the left. Similarly there are conservatives who share some of my own beleifs, such as concern for the state of the enviroment (Yes, that's righ you dont have to be a tree hugging pot smoking hippie to be concerned about pollution, extinction and climate change). There are more brands of Conservativism than the one sold by the current White House.