Pot, don’t you remember your past life as a kettle?
Bookworm on May 12 2006 at 6:25 pm | Filed under: Media matters
Does it strike anyone as strange that the same paper that advocated Universal Health Care, which would have placed every bit of our most personal information in the Government's hands, is now shrieking about a computer program that impersonally scans millions of numbers — numbers that big business possesses in any event — on privacy grounds? Could it be because the first was a Clinton program to expand Government, while the second is a Bush program to save American lives?
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Nothing about politicians, the MSM and hypocrisy surprise me any more…unfortunately.
I think it has to do with power in the end, regardless of the politics. Or because of it. The Democrats would have bureacratic power through universal pre-paid healthcare. The Republicans and their military is the one getting info through surveillaince and intelligence programs however.
So, their power is pure and pristine, everyone else’s power is an obstacle to their path. Using that those metaphysical premises, you derive at a logical ethical system that justifies ruthlessness towards the enemy and compassion towards your allies.
Tribal politics, magnified.
Hillary wants to have exclusive access to secret data like those 900 raw FBI files she’s used to wield power.
Betsy’s Page links to an NRO article by Andrew McCarthy that poses,
—excerpt
Here are a just a few questions we might ask Democratic-party chairman Howard Dean and the members of the judiciary and intelligence committees currently grousing for the cameras:
Do you maintain databases of American citizens for fundraising purposes?
Do those databases contain names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and other identifying information?
Do the databases contain information about the interests of the citizens who have been entered into them? About candidates or causes to which they have previously donated money?
—part of a good reply to the Democrats absurd-mongering wherein they try to (what’s new?) mislead and– ‘divide America.’
http://haloscan.com/tb/betsynewmark/114746180437015888
I like that, hit them where it hurts ( money) combined with selective targeting of an opponent’s weak spots