Checks and Balances?
What ever happened to our constitutionally guaranteed system of “Checks and Balances”? For the non-nation building Bush II administration, who didn’t want to hear anything about Osama Bin Laden or Al-Keidah when they took the oath of office, [whose only foreign policy goal was to find/invent any excuse to attack Iraq and Saddam Hussein,] to be so cautious about national security that they are willing to have the United States mirror the Soviet Union in their “intelligence gathering” on citizens.... Give me a break! The Bushies ignored intelligence on Bin Laden because it didn’t fit their predetermined goal of taking out Saddam, and now they used their own lack of foresight to justify gathering personal information on ordinary American citizens under the guise of terror prevention. What the Bushies are doing is TERRIFYING, and any citizen who thinks that they are so pure that nothing can be gotten on them need to recall the words of King Solomon in Ecclesiastes (7:20): “For there is not a just man upon earth, that does good, and does not sin.” The meaning of this verse is not that there are not just and righteous people on earth, but rather that even just and righteous people have made mistakes. Ever gone 5 miles per hour over the speed limit? If you have, then you might not be an “innocent citizen” who is protected from data mining; rather you are a criminal, and the Bushies want to know what else you have been doing!
