Another One Bites the Dust

If Cheney says, it must be true.......

I am finding it much easier to list the liberties and privacy rights we have to those we don't. What we do now have is a much smaller list. Now, we find, we have lost another one.
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday the Pentagon and CIA are not violating people's rights by examining the banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage in the United States.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've always had to give my permission for a bank or other loan institution to check my credit. Yet, cheney states - again - this domestic infringement on Americans right to privacy is well within his legal rights.
"The Defense Department gets involved because we've got hundreds of bases inside the United States that are potential terrorist targets," Cheney said.
"The Department of Defense has legitimate authority in this area. This is an authority that goes back three or four decades. It was reaffirmed in the Patriot Act," he said. "It's perfectly legitimate activity. There's nothing wrong with it or illegal. It doesn't violate people's civil rights."
The Pentagon and the CIA, to a lesser extent, have used this little-known power, officials said. The FBI, the lead agency on domestic counterterrorism and espionage, has issued thousands of such letters since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Ah yes! The fear tactic!
Interestingly enough, the majority of Americans are fed up with the domestic spying, fear mongering, illegal war issues. Not that this administration cares. Nope, the decider will have his way. Just ask him.
I think that the entire administrations concerns could be summed up by the deciders comment of a week ago. He stated that if the new congress attempted to cut his war purse and surge stings, he'd kill a bill on Medicare. MEDICARE! No, even our ailing seniors mean less to this group then our civil liberties. Only a cash flow for them and their buds. That's it. End of story.
Is it even possible that they have forgotten that they are civil servants, elected officials, who, by rights should have the best interests of their people at heart? Seemingly the American people don't mean a great deal. Of course with the exception of handing over our sons, daughters, husbands, wives, moms and dads to be used as pawns in an illegal war of aggression. The last election taught them nothing. Hopefully, the new congress will.

Funny thing though, while bush and cheney are screaming about their "legal rights" they are ignoring ours.