I'm still trying to understand exactly what there is about the Left Wing dingbats that makes them think we can't remember anything that happened before Geroge W. Bush was elected President. (Yes... that's E-lected not selected you freaking idiots! Get over it!) In their twisted little minds absolutely nothing happened in America prior to President Bush being elected. All one need do is listen to the Liberal members of the Senate, (most loudly) House, and the Old Stream media to understand what I'm saying.
The biggest burr under my saddle this week is all the bald face lying being directed at "we the people" by the above named groups. The attempt is, of course, to "get the evil Bush railroaded out of office so the true owners of Washington power can return to their rightful place." Latest on their list of things to lie about is the telephone intercept program designed to monitor calls incoming to the United States from known Al-Qaida terrorists overseas. This has been called "illegal monitoring", illegal searches", "trampling on our rights" and of course, "A president who thinks he is above the law going around the courts." Naturally there is about as much truth to these claims as there is brain power behind them.
Of course NOTHING ever happened prior to President Bush coming to Washington. There were no Presidents before him, the country has never faced any dangers before his election. Everything was all pink and rosy and everyone happy..... until the EVIL Bush came to town, stole the election and ruined everything. OH Really???? Sad to say, Libs, that there is indeed history prior to President Bush and if one just takes a little look at it we can all see exactly WHY Liberals choose to ignore it so conviently.
The Democrats and the press are both throwing the NSA "eavesdropping" program in our collective faces day in and day out. The purpose is to make us think that this has never EVER happened before in the history of the world! Dirty little secret time!!! Good old William Jefferson Clinton (Remember him Democrats?) had not one.... but TWO of the most intrusive domestic spying programs in history going on during his term in office!! The Attorney General (Janet Reno) and Deputy Attorney General (Jamie Gorelic) BOTH stood before the American People and TOLD us that the President of the United States not only had the RIGHT to do such things but the inherient OBLIGATION to conduct such operations!!! And just in case no one remembers... the main reason the government exists is to protect and defend the constitution and the American people.
Two words you need to go look up on the internet with your favorite search engine. Echelon is the first one and Carnivore is the second. Okay.... I'll save you a little effort.... Here is what can easily be found about Echelon: "Echelon is perhaps the most powerful intelligence gathering organization in the world. Several credible reports suggest that this global electronic communications surveillance system presents an extreame threat to the privacy of people all over the world. According to these reports ECHELON attempts to capture staggering volumes of satellite, microwave, cellular and fiber-optic traffic including traffic to and from North America. This vast quantity of voice and data communications are then processed through sophisticated filtering technologies. This massive surveillance system apparently operates with little oversight. Moreover, the agency that purportedly run ECHELON have provided few details as to the legal guidelines for the project. Because of this there is no way of knowing if ECHELON is being used to illegally spy on private citizens."
For the record... and to jog Liberal Democrat brains... what few there are to be found.... Echelon was started at the directive of William Jefferson Clinton. What does that mean? Basically... if you used a voice communications device any time during the last half of the Clinton Presidency... your conversation is on file somewhere.... period. I don't recall any "concerned Democrats" screaming and hollaring about oversteping presidential authority, acting illegally, being above the law or spying on American citizens..... do you? Clinton can do it but Bush can't? Both hold the same office and have the same authority BUT for democrats there are different standards depending upon who is in office at the time. Okay... that sounds fair. (Yeah... right!)
Now then..... Carnivore. What was missing with Echelon? Come on... that's not a tough question... think about it for a minute. Every source of electronic communication is being monitored, filtered, searched and investigated. Okay as far as it went but to get around it all you had to do was send a simple e-mail message over the internet. That's a pretty big hole to have in your spying program don't you think? Good old Bill thought it was so a little program called "Etherpeek" started. By 1997 (Before George W. Bush if you'll note) the second generation program called "Omnivore" was on line sniffing through e-mails. Omnivore was designed to search through e-mail traffic through specific ISP's for certain names, addresses and keywords. Which ISP's? They aren't telling. By the end of the Clinton era (1999) Carnivore had evolved into the "Dragonware Suite" which certainly sounds much nicer. The suite consisted of three parts. Carnivore was still the main application for capturing information. "Packeteer" is the second part. Not much is known about this application but it is presumed that it was able to reassemble the data packets into cohesive messages or web pages. The third part of the suite was "Coolminer." Again this is Top Secret stuff so almost nothing is know about exactly how this application works but it is thought to be responsible for extrapolating and analizing the raw data gathered so the data can be matched and contrasted with data known about "the bad guys."
SO! ALL electronic communication globally being monitored at the directive of the President AND all e-mail communications within the United States being monitored at the directive of the President. The main stream media is almost completely silent and collectively the Democratic party doesn't have any concerns or voice a single complaint. Amazing! President Bush authorizes the intercept of phone calls inbound to the United States from known Al-Qaida terrorists and HE is suddenly the biggest threat to the security of the American People in the history of the universe. How damn sick and twisted can the Democrats possibly get? Compared to what President Clinton ordered the Bush program doesn't amount to a gnat on and elephants ass. It is specifically targeted at known terroritst.... not the entire world and every American who sends an e-mail like Clinton's programs. Yet President Bush is the threat? Sorry... it just doesn't float, Libs.
Just today I get to hear a sound bite of Hillery Rodham (Mrs. Bill) Clinton bitching and moaning to anyone who will listen (only everyone in the loyal democratic press) that President Bush has overstepped his authority and is acting illegally in his "domestic spying" program. Of all the people to bitch after what her husband did.... positively amazing. What pisses me off the most is that the folks in the Republican party just sit there and let these brainless blowhards go on and on and on without ever calling their butts on the carpet and setting the record straight. Just a few words to them..... you guys are the majority.... you guys are in charge..... you guys have history and the facts. ACT like you're in charge and use the facts to destroy these useless little piss-ants who keep making stuff up and overlooking history when it doesn't suit them.
Trampling on American citizen's civil rights and "overstepping" Presidential authority? Bush? I think I'd go ask some of the tens of thousands of American citizens who were taken from their homes, lost their jobs, businesses and bank accounts. People who were spirited away in the night and forced to live in near prison camp conditions. People who could not protest their treatment for fear of being shot! The Presidnet? Democrat Harry Truman..... and his victims were of Japaneese heritage but American citizens.... most by birth! Yeah.... you Democrats can claim George W. Bush is trampling on the rights of the American people.... but the only examples you can point to of actually doing it are Democrats. You'd love for us to forgot those facts as you try to do..... but we won't.
The biggest burr under my saddle this week is all the bald face lying being directed at "we the people" by the above named groups. The attempt is, of course, to "get the evil Bush railroaded out of office so the true owners of Washington power can return to their rightful place." Latest on their list of things to lie about is the telephone intercept program designed to monitor calls incoming to the United States from known Al-Qaida terrorists overseas. This has been called "illegal monitoring", illegal searches", "trampling on our rights" and of course, "A president who thinks he is above the law going around the courts." Naturally there is about as much truth to these claims as there is brain power behind them.
Of course NOTHING ever happened prior to President Bush coming to Washington. There were no Presidents before him, the country has never faced any dangers before his election. Everything was all pink and rosy and everyone happy..... until the EVIL Bush came to town, stole the election and ruined everything. OH Really???? Sad to say, Libs, that there is indeed history prior to President Bush and if one just takes a little look at it we can all see exactly WHY Liberals choose to ignore it so conviently.
The Democrats and the press are both throwing the NSA "eavesdropping" program in our collective faces day in and day out. The purpose is to make us think that this has never EVER happened before in the history of the world! Dirty little secret time!!! Good old William Jefferson Clinton (Remember him Democrats?) had not one.... but TWO of the most intrusive domestic spying programs in history going on during his term in office!! The Attorney General (Janet Reno) and Deputy Attorney General (Jamie Gorelic) BOTH stood before the American People and TOLD us that the President of the United States not only had the RIGHT to do such things but the inherient OBLIGATION to conduct such operations!!! And just in case no one remembers... the main reason the government exists is to protect and defend the constitution and the American people.
Two words you need to go look up on the internet with your favorite search engine. Echelon is the first one and Carnivore is the second. Okay.... I'll save you a little effort.... Here is what can easily be found about Echelon: "Echelon is perhaps the most powerful intelligence gathering organization in the world. Several credible reports suggest that this global electronic communications surveillance system presents an extreame threat to the privacy of people all over the world. According to these reports ECHELON attempts to capture staggering volumes of satellite, microwave, cellular and fiber-optic traffic including traffic to and from North America. This vast quantity of voice and data communications are then processed through sophisticated filtering technologies. This massive surveillance system apparently operates with little oversight. Moreover, the agency that purportedly run ECHELON have provided few details as to the legal guidelines for the project. Because of this there is no way of knowing if ECHELON is being used to illegally spy on private citizens."
For the record... and to jog Liberal Democrat brains... what few there are to be found.... Echelon was started at the directive of William Jefferson Clinton. What does that mean? Basically... if you used a voice communications device any time during the last half of the Clinton Presidency... your conversation is on file somewhere.... period. I don't recall any "concerned Democrats" screaming and hollaring about oversteping presidential authority, acting illegally, being above the law or spying on American citizens..... do you? Clinton can do it but Bush can't? Both hold the same office and have the same authority BUT for democrats there are different standards depending upon who is in office at the time. Okay... that sounds fair. (Yeah... right!)
Now then..... Carnivore. What was missing with Echelon? Come on... that's not a tough question... think about it for a minute. Every source of electronic communication is being monitored, filtered, searched and investigated. Okay as far as it went but to get around it all you had to do was send a simple e-mail message over the internet. That's a pretty big hole to have in your spying program don't you think? Good old Bill thought it was so a little program called "Etherpeek" started. By 1997 (Before George W. Bush if you'll note) the second generation program called "Omnivore" was on line sniffing through e-mails. Omnivore was designed to search through e-mail traffic through specific ISP's for certain names, addresses and keywords. Which ISP's? They aren't telling. By the end of the Clinton era (1999) Carnivore had evolved into the "Dragonware Suite" which certainly sounds much nicer. The suite consisted of three parts. Carnivore was still the main application for capturing information. "Packeteer" is the second part. Not much is known about this application but it is presumed that it was able to reassemble the data packets into cohesive messages or web pages. The third part of the suite was "Coolminer." Again this is Top Secret stuff so almost nothing is know about exactly how this application works but it is thought to be responsible for extrapolating and analizing the raw data gathered so the data can be matched and contrasted with data known about "the bad guys."
SO! ALL electronic communication globally being monitored at the directive of the President AND all e-mail communications within the United States being monitored at the directive of the President. The main stream media is almost completely silent and collectively the Democratic party doesn't have any concerns or voice a single complaint. Amazing! President Bush authorizes the intercept of phone calls inbound to the United States from known Al-Qaida terrorists and HE is suddenly the biggest threat to the security of the American People in the history of the universe. How damn sick and twisted can the Democrats possibly get? Compared to what President Clinton ordered the Bush program doesn't amount to a gnat on and elephants ass. It is specifically targeted at known terroritst.... not the entire world and every American who sends an e-mail like Clinton's programs. Yet President Bush is the threat? Sorry... it just doesn't float, Libs.
Just today I get to hear a sound bite of Hillery Rodham (Mrs. Bill) Clinton bitching and moaning to anyone who will listen (only everyone in the loyal democratic press) that President Bush has overstepped his authority and is acting illegally in his "domestic spying" program. Of all the people to bitch after what her husband did.... positively amazing. What pisses me off the most is that the folks in the Republican party just sit there and let these brainless blowhards go on and on and on without ever calling their butts on the carpet and setting the record straight. Just a few words to them..... you guys are the majority.... you guys are in charge..... you guys have history and the facts. ACT like you're in charge and use the facts to destroy these useless little piss-ants who keep making stuff up and overlooking history when it doesn't suit them.
Trampling on American citizen's civil rights and "overstepping" Presidential authority? Bush? I think I'd go ask some of the tens of thousands of American citizens who were taken from their homes, lost their jobs, businesses and bank accounts. People who were spirited away in the night and forced to live in near prison camp conditions. People who could not protest their treatment for fear of being shot! The Presidnet? Democrat Harry Truman..... and his victims were of Japaneese heritage but American citizens.... most by birth! Yeah.... you Democrats can claim George W. Bush is trampling on the rights of the American people.... but the only examples you can point to of actually doing it are Democrats. You'd love for us to forgot those facts as you try to do..... but we won't.
