Some Dick Cheney jokes..

[RICHARD]

Don't mean to interrupt this spirited debate, but the only question I have is....who is paying the hospital bills? Is it the "victim's" own health insurance, or, since Cheney is responsible, is the government, i.e. ME, picking up the tab?

WE ALL DO!


It really doesn't matter, just like everything else, car insurance, home owners insurance, life insurance-we all pay.


CM,
We all do.

It's part of the plan put together since JFK and RR were shot.

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What is the problem with Electric eavesdropping?

I really laugh when I hear people ask "DO YOU WANT THE GOVERNMENT LISTENING/LOOKING AT WHAT YOU DO?"

Did you realize that you company looks and monitors your email?
At work there are CCTV cameras all over the place?
when you shop all your data is attached to your card,debit card and you are photographed while you shop?
Use an ATM and smile! Run a red light and smile!

While there are 300 million people in the USA there are about 100 million that use the phone, computer,text message and email back and forth...


So estimate if you use each of those methods once a day for one message, that is 400 million. more, if you are a TECHHEAD.

So if the US gov't. has the ability to sort thru all those messages every day.....we are in trouble....


DID I MENTION, that a good percent of all that electrinic mash is in a foreign language??

As it is we were never able to get enough translators to go to Iraq/Afghanistan-so what makes you think that the omnipotent powers can decode and figure out all the stupid jokes, photos and trash that we send to each other, every day?


Me?

I'd rather have Uncle Sam looking over my shoulder and seeing that all I get are "girls gone wild" DVD offers, Cialis, Viagra and the Cat of the Day calendar emails..

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Riddle me this.


A terrorist cell operates in a major US city....They begin electronically setting up a plan to dirty bomb a large college. Let's say the University College in Downtown Lost Angeles. (It don't exist so don't bother looking) Uni College is surrounded by 100,000 people.

While the government and state official present a judge a request for a wiretap and access to their emails, they cook off a bomb that kills 10,000 people with in the first week-Did i mention that the wind is blowing west to the ocean and some 50 thousand people will inhale what ever crap they put together with the bomb? Uranium maybe???

3,000 from the initial blast and another 7,000 from the 24 hour effects from the dirt from the fallout.

Long term effects?


The area where the bomb went off is off limits for about 40 years and the cancer rates in the areas go up astronomically...



DID I MENTION WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WATER, that the firefighters use to put out the fires, until they realize that it full of radioactive waste GOES INTO THE SEWER and pollutes everything down to the ocean?


If you are not scared yet-of think that I am talking out of my hat- I pray that none of the world ever has to go through something like that because we are a bunch of spineless paranoid wimps.

"Where is the government?"
"WHY DIDN'T THEY STOP THE ATTACK?"

Of course, the story about the cops trying to get a wiretap order will come out and then we can whine about the government not moving fast enough.



I pray that I am wrong-but it more than likely will happen.

So get ready and remember- I told you so.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Sorry RICHARD....I am more frightened by a government run amok than I am the possibility of a terrorist attack.

To live in a country governed by a bunch who think the constitution is just an inconvenience (except when you want to use it to justifiy owning a killing machine...) is it worth living? I really laugh when I hear people think the government will responsibly use the power to spy on American citizens. Can anyone say "McCarthy?"

The government has never been denied a warrant ...and the law allows them to eavesdrop and get the warrant later. I really laugh when I hear people describe a situation where the requirement to get a warrant causes mass distruction of a city.

I really laugh when I hear people say they don't care about the government spying on them in their homes. How many times does history have to repeat????

Consider yourself riddled.... (I hope that doesn't mean something dirty! )

[Lady's Human]

A government that considers the Constitution an inconvenience? I'm sure the Branch Davidians were given all rights of due process before the assault on their compound.

[Edwina's Secretary]

LH...is your comment suppose to have something to do with the discussion?

[Lady's Human]

I'm sorry, I forgot, the previous administration followed the constitution to the letter................depending on what your definition of "is" is.

[lizbud]

I'm sorry, I forgot, the previous administration followed the constitution to the letter................depending on what your definition of "is" is.

LH, you are still off topic. What is it..have you run out of excuses for
Cheney?

[Lady's Human]

Liz, while it is off topic in a way, it is a response to ES's questioning the present administration's respect for the Constitution. She brought up her fear of Government run amok, I provided an example of government run amok, people she would like to see back in power. Waco. I could also include Echelon.