Law v Law

[sabrina 1]

27. You are right 'the only real win is when the public has all the accurate facts with which to make

a decision'. And the only way for that to happen is to have a free and open press which does not need to fear being spied on and harassed by the Government.

We do not have a free press since deregulation of the media and our 'news' organizations were bought by Big Corporations.

However, when a story is published such as this one, rather than attack the story before knowing any of the facts based on partisanship, we should all demand an investigation into the facts.

However, what we will find probably is that while Govt. spying on the press is reprehensible in any democracy, THIS country, under Bush, allowed spying on ALL citizens, destroying rights granted under the 4th Amendment, and you could add the Fifth, and certainly any infringement on the press affects the rights granted under the 1st Amendment.

We railed against those 'laws' when Bush was pushing them, we warned the far Right who supported anything their party did, that they would not always be in power so maybe they should think more about the country than the party they belonged to.

When individuals make decisions based on their party affiliation we get what we had under Bush, illegal wars, torture, destruction of Constitutional protections and a breakdown of this democracy. We are NOT Republicans and should never ignore any threat to the rights that were so hard fought for regardless of party affiliation.

This OP is absolutely correct. While this may have been 'legal', thanks to Bush and his 'terror laws', it is wrong and those laws that may have made it 'legal' need to be rescinded. In fact we thought once we elected Democrats they would be.