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17. Jan 2006

Go, Al, go

 
Al Gore, i en tale holdt i Washington på Martin Luther King Day:
Just one month ago, Americans awoke to the shocking news that in spite of this long settled law, the Executive Branch has been secretly spying on large numbers of Americans for the last four years and eavesdropping on "large volumes of telephone calls, e-mail messages, and other Internet traffic inside the United States." The New York Times reported that the President decided to launch this massive eavesdropping program "without search warrants or any new laws that would permit such domestic intelligence collection."

During the period when this eavesdropping was still secret, the President went out of his way to reassure the American people on more than one occasion that, of course, judicial permission is required for any government spying on American citizens and that, of course, these constitutional safeguards were still in place.

But surprisingly, the President's soothing statements turned out to be false. Moreover, as soon as this massive domestic spying program was uncovered by the press, the President not only confirmed that the story was true, but also declared that he has no intention of bringing these wholesale invasions of privacy to an end.
Det er den samme Al Gore, som i kølvandet på orkanen Katrina personligt brugte store summer på at redde folk ud af katastrofeområderne - men så vidt muligt gjorde det incognito, fordi han ikke ønskede at "politisere" på katastrofen.

Dette, samtidig med at Bush demonstrerede sin totale uduelighed eller ligegyldighed (eller hvad det nu er), indtil han hårdt presset fløj ned til området - blot for netop at "politisere", til en nyttesløs photo op.

Man kan sige meget om Al Gore, og det ville vi sandsynligvis også have gjort, var der ikke blevet fusket med valgresultatet i Florida i sin tid - men der er vist ingen tvivl om, at han ville have været USA en bedre og mindre krigerisk og uansvarlig præsident.

Ikke, at der skal så meget til.

Via Citizen Dane.

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