“It's very, very difficult for us
to have a transparent debate
about secret programs
approved by a secret court
issuing secret court orders
based on secret interpretations of the law.”
~Tom Udall
The Left, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood and their mouthpiece, the ACLU seem to have a paranoid dread of The Beast. Carnivore.
Carnivore and it’s computer The Beast, and its successor “PRISM,” NSA code names for its program of massive interception, collection and analysis of world-wide communications. All are part of its mandate to discover and disrupt plots against the security of The United States and its citizens. Leftists, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood, and their mouthpiece, the ACLU will not have any of this.
Their argument boils down to this: privacy trumps security. How dare the U.S. Government "spy" or intrude on private conversations of its citizens! How dare the Government diminish the right to privacy in order to spare U.S. citizens further terror attacks! Listening-in on secretive conversations is so un-Constitutional, argue the Left, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood and their mouthpiece, the ACLU that it makes America hardly worth saving.
Let's say Mr. A in some foreign nation known to harbor terrorists, is phoning Mr. B in America. Let's say NSA’s Beast routinely “listens” and hears certain key words which lead it to conclude Mr. A is trying to enlist, encourage or in some other way support terrorist activity with Mr. B, for the explicit planning of imminent violent acts upon U.S. soil. The Left, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood and their mouthpiece, the ACLU want NSA to cease and desist. They argue if The Beast reports the communication between Mssrs. A and B, it will have infringed on their Constitution rights to privately discuss and plan violent acts. Intruding on free speech of any kind, they say, is far worse than the effort to thwart those planning to kill Americans, trafficking in drugs, or child pornography or whatever. Why, if our government monitors such conversations, we no longer live in a country which is free. And perhaps such a wicked government... one which places the safety of its citizens above the ACLU's cabalistic interpretation of the Constitution... has overstepped the legal bounds of its authority. Therefore what? That wicked government should be abolished and replaced by the Left, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood and their mouthpiece, the ACLU?
It seems fairly clear that the Left, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood and their mouthpiece, the ACLU would prefer that Mssrs. A and B be allowed to carry out their plans uninhibited by Homeland Security, the FBI or anyone else charged with protecting Americans. To the Left, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood and their mouthpiece, the ACLU it must be preferable to allow Mssrs. A and B to blow up a building, gas civilians in a mall, or spread biological terror through a grade school than to infringe on your grandmother’s phone or internet conversations about her quilting party. Deaths are preferable to the Left, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood and their mouthpiece, the ACLU because they can be treated as crimes, in which case their lawyers will volunteer to represent Mssrs A and B in their Constitutional right to a trial by their peers. They will look the other way to avoid the pained eyes of the parents, spouses and families of the innocents who lost their lives in a terror attack. The Left, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood and their mouthpiece, the ACLU will perform rhetorical dances upon the graves of the victims, glowing with pride at saving grandma’s freedom to pass along her Johnny cakes recipe and quilting party details in complete privacy.
Perhaps the Left, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood and their mouthpiece, the ACLU actually believe America is invulnerable to defeat. That we are so mighty we can suffer a thousand cuts and still stand on The Constitution and the right to privacy. Or free speech or whatever the hell the Left, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood and their mouthpiece, the ACLU read into their Phantom Constitution.
Today’s legal Left views The Constitution as a document written by and for a cabal of Freemasons and old religious white slave masters. It must be like The Bible Code, right? Undoubtedly, the Left, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood and their mouthpiece, the ACLU read every fourth letter or fifth word of their Phantom Constitution and somehow divine that free speech and privacy trump the survival of the nation’s citizens.
I’m not a mind-reader. I don't really know why the Left, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood and their mouthpiece, the ACLU want to shut down The Beast. The thought occurs to me that they are, plain and simple, unforgivably wrong. I believe many of them don’t give a rat’s ass if we are subjected to further attacks. Is it any wonder that so many Americans consider them to be traitorous? Thriving on chaos. Another terrorist attack on U.S. soil will give the Leftist media more video of carnage. More propaganda for their fight against gun rights (a right they can’t seem to find in their Phantom Constitution). More legal cases to fight. More movies to produce which uncover the evil involvement of the U.S. government in attacking its own citizens. But never once will they look at themselves and wonder if maybe, just maybe, they were wrong to interfere with the work of the NSA or The Beast.
But one day, Mssrs. A and B will communicate how they have been inspired by the Left, Progressives, Liberals, Hollywood and their mouthpiece, the ACLU. On that day, The Beast will have their number.
