An Orwellian move by Obama's administration

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Originally Posted by dalakhani

I am with Miraja on this. I totally disagreed with Bush and Obama on this one. And I agree...Obama should get ripped for this like Bush did.

I agree. Part of the problem we grapple with when defending the individual liberties is what things can turn into, later, also. Even when Bush was proposing things in the Patriot Act to stop the terrorists -- the issue becomes, even if you believe that the proposed changes were made for just that reason -- what will some future leader do with those powers? Unfortunately, laws are manipulated in ways never intended by the original authors. Those authors may have had pure motives, but generations later, those powers that were used in a targeted way and sparingly can be used indiscriminately and in a sweeping manner.

Reasonable people can disagree on partisan issues, but I think most of us agree that individual rights are indispensible and that the government has too much power already.