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TheRealMafoo said:
PS3beats360 said:
TheRealMafoo said:
PS3beats360 said:

The breach of privacy and intrusion into citizens lives by governments is all to keep us safe and secure from terrorism. George W. Bush and other neo-cons continuously push their used car sales pitch : "You are all safe and secure with me and Please trust me". 


The same laws that were in place under Bush are still in place under Obama. Why are you not yelling at him for it too?

When laws or a tax reform is passed it is hard to remove the legislation. The legislation would have to be repealed and passed by a majority in both houses of Federal government. Obama would not be able to repeal the legislation Bush Jr.  passed through as law. Governments rarely over turn taxes when they are introduced. 

We are not talking abou tax reform, we are talking about wire taps. I think it would be simple for Obama to remove the ability to wiretap people.

He has not done it, and it's odd that the liberals who were so up in arms about the Bush administration wiretapping, have not said one word about the fact that Obama leads under the same set of rules.

As for taxes, we change the tax laws every year. It's very easy to remove anything we want with respect to taxation. We do it all the time.

You are correct in that Obama could easily remove the wiretaps and should.  You are wrong though that liberals haven't said anything about it.  Progressives have been complaining about most of Obama's policies with respect to the wiretaps, gitmo, patriot act, don't ask don't tell, etc.

It's wrong no matter who is doing it.  If we get a true psycho or paranoid person in the white house, these policies could lead to a very repressive executive branch very quickly.  Could you imagine Nixon having these policies at his disposal?