Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., asked an excellent question this week in proposing to block funding for the National Security Agency’s warrantless spying program unless Congress is better briefed about it: “Where is the outrage?” Since the initial revelations about the program, too many in Congress (including Kansas’ delegation) have been more concerned about the leak that made the program public knowledge than about the program’s legality, accountability and oversight.
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“When they came for the Jews I said nothing, but cause I am not Jewish.When they came for the Gypsy’s I said nothing, because I am not a Gypsy.When they came for the Catholics I said nothing, because I was not a Catholic.When they came for the…..”
You get the idea!
Heheh writerdog. In Kansas we could say…
I was a dryland farmer in western kansas, and when hays came for my water, no one spoke up because their own lakes and rivers were filled with water…for now.
I was a special needs student in kansas, and when the state refused to provide a constitutionally mandated education, no one spoke up for me because their own kids didnt need the extra help…for now.
I was a gay person in kansas and when a constitutional amendment was proposed to make me and the people I love second class citizens, no one spoke up because they feared what their own church leaders might think…for now.
I was a legal hispanic immigrant, and when they came for me, even though I was legal, no one spoke up for me because they thought I was taking someone’s job, just because I speak spanish. They loath and fear my culture…for now.
And when the water dried up and the schools were religious training camps, when their own marriages failed and no gay person was in sight, and when they could no longer hire my labor to maximize their profits….
They still came for me because I was different. I wasnt straight, or christian, or an irrigator or white or even middle class. I was just me. Different, but still a kansan… for now.
They still came for me anyway because they needed someone to blame for all the problems they created for themselves.
Viva la karma.
Could you and yours be next?
Who do you tell about your frustration with the wiretaps. Brownback… God’s Senator?Roberts… Bush’s hack? They are part of the problem not the solution.
By the way: Great post kfg. Interesting read.
Will the last person please remember to turn out the lights?
When they came for the jews I said what took you guys so long; they are right over there! :)
Viva La Raza Blanco!!!
Ian, you are a racist pig but I confess, you do make me laugh…
I hope you will be at the meet up. I bet you arent half as mean in person. I’ll bbq organic pork if you and your wife and kinder attend.
Hey, nwks18!!!! I miss you dude!!!!! Our loss is the blue state’s gain!
What’s truly fascinating about this is the Specter bill is a cream puff, giving the admin unheard-of latitute, and the DeWine bill is a kiss on the mouth!
Neither is acceptable to them.
Quit watching us!: We watch YOU. That’s the way it works.
Party partianship trumps all other concerns, even the separation of powers, in the constitution. That is the shame of modern day society. If Brownback and Roberts add Tiahrt, etc. had any balls they would stand up for their respective institutions, and quit letting the party politics determine who’s alway’s right, even when they are wrong!
Yeah, Ian, if Tara will have you, it’s okay with me. If nothing else, you’re a hoot!
By the way, Ian, how do you feel about the using the services of Jews: not AIPAC or anything like that, you know, just regular joes? You wouldn’t have any problem, say, with using the services of a Jewish tailor, or a machine shop run by Jews, now, wouldya?
nwks,
I hadn’t heard that you moved to a blue state! Maybe you can be our resident “foreign correspondent”–hehe!
Heh Rage, I dont know about Ian, but I would walk over my grandmother for some chopped liver from Katz’s in Austin.
Take note of the companies that hire temp workers or shut down to show solidarity with illegal aliens on Monday. Perhaps it’s time American citizens started showing solidarity for the “rule of law” and begin byocotting companies that prefer to show solidarity with law breakers.
These companies claim they can’t survive without hiring illegals to do the work that “Americans won’t do.” This is a fallicous argument that can be easily refuted. To suggest that Americans are not willing to do an honest days work for an honest days wages in insulting. Companies making this argument are trying to skirt the laws of supply and demand by subsidizing their labor costs with cheap labor. If job seekers are offered fair wages, determined by the laws of supply and demand, willing “legal” workers will flock to fill them.
It is time to show companies that they had better pay more attention to American citizens, who just so happen to be their customers. It is time we see who it is tougher to get along without, customers or illegal employees.
Boycott meat May 1st!
KFG,The purple chicken left you a present!
steve, how about you? May 13 at Watson park? (see open thread if that leaves you confused!).
I don’t know how many of you watch Lou Dobbs on CNN but he is trying to get a movement going to counter the Illegal marches. unfortunately, so far he isn’t having much luck. TOO BAD!!!
Brownback/Tihart/Roberts/Ryun all need to take a hike. These schmucks are nothing but lap dogs for G.O.P.
Its up to us to show them the door.
I think those NSA guys should give everyone equal time, and have to listen to every phone call made. After listening to 20 million teenagers talking about who’s wearing what to school tomorrow, and who said what to whom, all their analysts will have to be committed and the problem will be solved.