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#52 Dec 20 2005 at 2:46 PM Rating: Decent
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Can you please quote for me the relevant passage in the Constitution that guarantees the right to privacy? I missed it in mine.


Sure thing, It's called the 4th amendment:

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FOURTH AMENDMENT

SEARCH AND SEIZURE

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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated; and no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported
by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be
searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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Holy sh[i][/i]it, it is the same as the Right To Not Have Your Taxes Used.. etc etc!!

I really need to crack that thing open sometime...
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#54 Dec 20 2005 at 2:49 PM Rating: Decent
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I see the point you're trying to make, I really do, but I don't feel an extreme fear by this. If the government wanted to photocopy my letters and record my calls, fine, I have nothing to hide.


That's a yes. I mean for the government to do this to me, not you! LOL. All the government would get out of me is a chick with an unnatural obsession to FFXI who laughs about what was on Family Guy last night.

Again, I don't live in fear of this ever happening to me. Now, again, let's refer to the dude who buys mustard gas online and wants to go to flight school....I'd really like to have a Spy-Eye on him.
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That's a yes. I mean for the government to do this to me, not you! LOL.
Why not me?
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#56 Dec 20 2005 at 3:16 PM Rating: Decent
I've said it a thousand times. Bush and his associates destroyed our twin towers and bombed the Pentagon. Naturally they blamed, an oil rich, third world country that they've had there eye on. And since everybodies pissed and wants vengeance, they'll listen to whatever the media tells them.

Bush is a lier. He deliberately set up the chain of events that proceeded the attacks. After 9/11, i really don't care what he has to say. I really don't care what he's doing. And i really don't care what his, fake set up by the media for propaganda, approval rating is. All i care is when the murdering, drug using, lier is going to be out of office.

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#57 Dec 20 2005 at 3:30 PM Rating: Good
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Sure thing, It's called the 4th amendment:


No, it's not.

There is no enumerated "right to privacy" there is a right to be free from "unreasonable" search and seizures.

It can be argued as an unenumerated right, like the "right to travel", but in that case it would fall under the NINTH ammendment, not the Fourth.

Not your fault, you're just google smart is all.

Edit: Oh anyway, as a left win partisan I'm shocked, shocked, I say at this gross and clearly illegal abuse of executive power by a pathetic small dic[/b]ked frat boy desperate to impress his mommy with how big and strong he is so he can get a little from her.

Really though, not that big a deal. Not like FISA was preventing any of this before. You can apply for a warrant retroactively under FISA, and it takes a near act of God for one not to be granted. It's nonsensical to think that FISA was hamstringing gathering of legitmate intel in any way shape or form, because it wasn't. This was just arrogance without reason functionality or purpose by a grossly arrogant administration.

The real story here is how mindbogglingly STUPID it was politcally. It would be like finding out that your main political rival had an hour to live and then storming his hospital room and killing him, just to show you could.

Overreach. I believe someone said in '04 that the GOP would foolishly overreach and fuc[b]
k themselves.

Oh yeah, it was me.

Man, I'm the greatest.



Edited, Tue Dec 20 15:43:26 2005 by Smasharoo
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#58 Dec 20 2005 at 3:50 PM Rating: Decent
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Why not me?


LOL because I fear you more than our government!!! /Poke
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Amiraphe wrote:
because I fear you more than our government!!! /Poke
Exactly. You don't trust me. I don't have any particular reason to trust the government aside from them telling me to trust them. And when people hear that Bush is allowing wiretaps to circumvent the checks and balances placed against the process, they're given even less reason to believe and trust that the power won't be misused.

Edit: I should note before the "ROFL0RZ u need a foil hat!" bits that I personally doubt anyone in the gummint cares about me, but that doesn't in of itself inspire me to confidence that gathered civilian information won't ever be misused.

Edited, Tue Dec 20 16:20:48 2005 by Jophiel
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#60 Dec 20 2005 at 4:17 PM Rating: Decent
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Exactly. You don't trust me. I don't have any particular reason to trust the government aside from them telling me to trust them. And when people hear that Bush is allowing wiretaps to circumvent the checks and balances placed against the process, they're given even less reason to believe and trust that the power won't be misused.


I respect the opinion you have, you have every right to have one, I'm just not on the same wagon. I feel a lot differently, but that shouldn't matter one way or another. I'm not a Bush Basher, doesn't mean I'm a fan, but I have a different perception. I won't split hairs and try to impose my feelings regarding politics upon you--we both are intelligent and feel deeply about very difficult issues that are hard to solve. Be a Freedom Fan of All Men or Safety At All Costs? The price is high whichever way you turn.

I'm not naive, not in the least. But what I boil my feelings down to is this:
1. I love my country and I never want another attack on our soil

2. I want deeper measurers being done on our homeland to locate and weed out person who have the power and the will to do us harm

3. I believe we don't need a court order to persue them. In my opinion, they have given up their rights as a citizen if they chose to break our laws and kill innocents.

4. I'm willing to allow myself to loose a few minor civil liberties if it means saving your life, your families life, and my own.

It's just my thoughts.
#61 Dec 20 2005 at 4:22 PM Rating: Decent
Kareem Abdul-Jabaar was great, he could really bring it. In my humble opinion, he was the bomb. If he were to run for office, I think he'd make it all the way to the White House.

I hope they come get me, I could use an early leave from work.

#62 Dec 20 2005 at 4:59 PM Rating: Decent
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4. I'm willing to allow myself to loose a few minor civil liberties if it means saving your life, your families life, and my own.


How about if you're not safer at all in return, but you mistakenly think you are?

That good enough?

How about if you have to have a GPS chip implanted under your heel so you can be inditified and tracked at all times? you're not doing anything wrong, right, and it would make it much simpler to find who was doing what.

How about if the government rounds up all the Arabs and puts them in camps. I mean they're much more likely to planning evil right?

What if they have showers in the camps....

Why are people so easily terrified. Man, Emmerson was so right.

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#63 Dec 20 2005 at 5:09 PM Rating: Decent
. I'm willing to allow myself to loose a few minor civil liberties if it means saving your life, your families life, and my own.

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How about if you're not safer at all in return, but you mistakenly think you are?

That good enough?

How about if you have to have a GPS chip implanted under your heel so you can be inditified and tracked at all times? you're not doing anything wrong, right, and it would make it much simpler to find who was doing what.

How about if the government rounds up all the Arabs and puts them in camps. I mean they're much more likely to planning evil right?

What if they have showers in the camps....

Why are people so easily terrified. Man, Emmerson was so right.


Again, I will bet dollars to doughnuts, there will be no GPS implanted in my heel or yours anytime in our lives. I also would bet that never will they round up every Arab and hold them in a camp as they had done to the Japanese years ago during Pearl Harbor. I think I have enough faith in a democratic human race of beings not to have this happen on our soil in our our phase of life. I am not in fear of anything you suggest. There is nothing to fear.

Who should fear, or who I hope to live in fear by this concept? It's that guy I keep mentioning that sent a long trail leading to himself when he bought mustard gas and applied for flight school. If the government wants to put a GPS in his heel, by all means, with all my love.

Again, you can try to water down how I feel, but I still stand by it.

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Again, you can try to water down how I feel, but I still stand by it.


Can you water down sppon fed pablum?

I wouldn't think so.


There is nothing to fear.


Then stop being so terrified that you're willing to exchange liberty for safety.



Who should fear, or who I hope to live in fear by this concept? It's that guy I keep mentioning that sent a long trail leading to himself when he bought mustard gas and applied for flight school. If the government wants to put a GPS in his heel, by all means, with all my love.


Of course, because he's a demonized faceless charictaccure in your mind who isn't human or worthy of any civil rights, right?

Christ, you're a simpleton. you're the reason Democracy sicks so much. The idea that your vote counts as much as mine makes me vomit.

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Forget mustard gas since I doubt anyone is buying it at the local Wal-Mart. How about Diazinon, a commonly and commercially available organophosphate pesticide and potent poison?

So if I buy enough Diazinon to fill a 55gal drum and apply to flight school, it's okay to monitor my emails, phone calls, etc? There's nothing innately illegal about buying Diazinon or applying to flight school. Why should my privacy suddenly become less valuable because of legal actions I've taken? Even if I'm not taken away by men in a black van, that doesn't mean they need to be listening in on conversations I have with my cousin in Austria.

Edited, Tue Dec 20 17:21:55 2005 by Jophiel
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#68 Dec 20 2005 at 5:21 PM Rating: Decent
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There is no enumerated "right to privacy" there is a right to be free from "unreasonable" search and seizures.

It can be argued as an unenumerated right, like the "right to travel", but in that case it would fall under the NINTH ammendment, not the Fourth.


Forgive me for using the phrase "right to privacy" instead of the right to be free from "unreasonable search and seizures".

But my point still stands. The courts have ruled agianst wire tapping with out a warrant many times, using the Fourth Amendment as the basis for their ruling.

Without a warrant, you need the permission of at least one person taking part in the conversation.




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But my point still stands. The courts have ruled agianst wire tapping with out a warrant many times, using the Fourth Amendment as the basis for their ruling.


Sure.

Your point though, was that the 4th amendment enumerated teh right to privacy, which it doesn't.

Again, not your fault, you're just google smart is all.

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So if I buy enough Diazinon to fill a 55gal drum and apply to flight school, it's okay to monitor my emails, phone calls, etc? There's nothing innately illegal about buying Diazinon or applying to flight school. Why should my privacy suddenly become less valuable because of legal actions I've taken? Even if I'm not taken away by men in a black van, that doesn't mean they need to be listening in on conversations I have with my cousin in Austria.


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#73 Dec 20 2005 at 5:32 PM Rating: Default
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Christ, you're a simpleton. you're the reason Democracy sicks so much. The idea that your vote counts as much as mine makes me vomit.
yaddah, yaddah, ugh.......

I see that I'm dealing with some one who is not capable of a normal discussion like grown ups do. I guess I'm dealing with a kid who can't manage a simple discussion of ideas without taking out his training scissors and stabbing me with very dull blades. "Your opinions are different than mine! Stab! Stab! Lookie how smart I am!"

Ouch? LOL
Carry on y'all
#74 Dec 20 2005 at 5:33 PM Rating: Decent
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Perhaps you should read the FISA regulations so you don't make yourself look any dumber...oh wait who am I talking to; nevermind.


I'd take a closer look if I where you. FISA uses a secret court to obtian warrants. I this case none were obtained.

achileez's web link wrote:
Under the Fourth Amendment, a search warrant must be based on probable cause to believe that a crime has been or is being committed. This is not the general rule under FISA: surveillance under FISA is permitted based on a finding of probable cause that the surveillance target is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power, irrespective of whether the target is suspected of engaging in criminal activity. However, if the target is a "U.S. person," there must be probable cause to believe that the U.S. person's activities may involve espionage or other similar conduct in violation of the criminal statutes of the United States. Nor may a U.S. person be determined to be an agent of a foreign power "solely upon the basis of activities protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States."


achileez's web link wrote:
Under FISA, the Justice Department reviews applications for counterintelligence warrants by agencies before submitting them to the FISC. The Attorney General must personally approve each final FISA application.


**EDIT** Again I'll state that I support our President in the War on Terror and his actions in Iraq. But I feel that wire tapping American's with out a warrant should not be allowed. Just get the warrant, it is not that hard to do.


Edited, Tue Dec 20 17:43:16 2005 by Wertyone
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I see that I'm dealing with some one who is not capable of a normal discussion like grown ups do.


A normal one with verbe like "having" included perhaps?



I guess I'm dealing with a kid who can't manage a simple discussion of ideas without taking out his training scissors and stabbing me with very dull blades. "Your opinions are different than mine! Stab! Stab! Lookie how smart I am!"


I have no problem with people having differing oppinions. I have problems with mindless ignorance.

Not my fault you meet that standard, it's yours. Now, you can do a couple of things. You could examine why you're such an ignorant simple minded fool who accepts blindly things a 4 year old would question, or alternately, you can refuse to continue to discuss it for me because it's too hard, you're hoplessly outwitted and you really have nothing to say other than "Well, I think this. I have no reason why, and I don't care what you think"

I'd imagine that's followed shortly by you covering your eyes and saying "lalalalala" at the top of your lungs.

Giving up civil liberties doesn't make you any safer from terrorist attack. Sorry. It might make you feel better if you're shockingly easily placated by obvious attempts to placate you. If so, bully for you. I've oftem figured life was a lot more fun the slow people who didn't know any better.

good luck.

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