[Vision2020] [Bulk] Re: Why is this not treason?

[Paul Rumelhart]

Why are the people of this country so willing to give up basic freedoms 
to fight some over-blown threat?  What happened to dying to protect 
liberty and freedom?  Why would any citizen of this country allow our 
government to track every citizen, to listen in on their private 
conversations, to put whomever they want on an arbitrary list that stops 
their movements in the country with no way to fight it if they are 
wrong, to manipulate the populace into fighting a war that had nothing 
to do with it, and to be able to hold whomever they want in detention 
centers where they can torture them and where they are not allowed to 
defend themselves?  All the while raking in the cash?

It's like a guy in prison making a deal with the meanest SOB in the 
prison to protect him from a cellmate that is rude to him.

Paul

Pat Kraut wrote:

> Why is it not treason for the NYT to publish the ways the CIA is 
> tracking by cell phone so that they stop using them and we cannot find 
> terrorists?? Or a variety of other things that have happened recently 
> to jeopardize our safety??
>  
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* keely emerinemix <mailto:kjajmix1 at msn.com>
>     *To:* Art Deco <mailto:deco at moscow.com> ; Vision 2020
>     <mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, March 27, 2007 5:13 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] Why is this not treason?
>
>     Because . . . I don't know . . . we've re-defined "treason" as
>     "not doing what Cheney and Bush, et al, say we should do to
>     support the troops"?  And "asking hard questions of the
>     incompetents in office," as well as "buying Dixie Chicks CDs."
>
>     This is certainly an outrage, very likely treasonous, and won't be
>     prosecuted as such because it's business, and business is the
>     elixir of the right.
>
>     keely
>
>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         From: deco at moscow.com
>         To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>         Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:49:58 -0700
>         Subject: [Vision2020] Why is this not treason?
>
>         Why are not the acts described below treason?  Why have not
>         the responsible parties been tried for treason?  Instead the
>         company has been reward with a new contract with $50 of the
>         $100 million applied in payment of that contract.
>          
>         Perhaps all you V 2020 clear-headed Bush Administration
>         Apologist can explain?
>          
>         W.
>          
>
>
>               Defense contractor admits sending classified materials
>               overseas, will pay $100 million penalty
>
>         WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The leading manufacturer of night vision
>         gear for the Defense Department has admitted sending
>         classified materials overseas and will pay a $100 million
>         penalty, according to federal prosecutors, who say the actions
>         of ITT Corp. have jeopardized the security of U.S. soldiers.
>         ITT, based in Roanoke, Va., exported classified or sensitive
>         technical data to China, Singapore and Britain without having
>         obtained authorization from the United States, prosecutors said.
>         The conviction is the first involving a major defense
>         contractor violating the Arms Export Control Act, prosecutors
>         said.
>         Saying that *American soldiers are "the principal victims of
>         ITT's crimes*," U.S. Attorney John Brownlee said he has
>         structured the $100 million penalty so that half of the money
>         is spent by ITT to develop a next-generation night vision
>         system and "ensure that our soldiers have the best night
>         vision equipment in the world." --From CNN Producer Mike M.
>         Ahlers (Posted 12:36 p.m.)
>
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