Surveillance over American people still continues.
Mahdi Haile
February 12, 2009
Electronic surveillance and collection of personal data are still continuing despite President Obama´s call for change. The change Americans were expecting did not come yet.
So many innocent people in America have suffered Aerial surveillance, planes that they saw flying overhead and flowing them where ever they go, wiretapping, invasion of privacy, were two examples of threats to their privacy, and safety.
This people are calling investigation or compensation because they have been subject to illegal surveillance.
The Bush administration said those tools were "essential" to fight against terrorism but people who have nothing to do with any terrorism or any crime have subjected 24 hours surveillance without any oversight. Tax payer´s money was spent for just individuals who perhaps happen to be community activist, journalist who spoke against the surveillance abuses. Abuses of power mean "even the innocent have a lot to fear".
Civil liberties campaigners have warned about the risks of a "power abuses" in which the state acquires ever-greater powers to track people's movements and retain personal data.
Controversial wiretapping and surveillance is still alive and continuing without oversight. Those abuses are still happening in the US especially in states like Minnesota, Wisconsin that and others.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has now joined House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers in proposing some sort of "truth and reconciliation" commission for the crimes of Bush and Cheney, as if Bush and Cheney have multiplied into a whole population that simply cannot be processed by our judicial system.
There can be no justification for doing that. American deserves truth, and accountability, who is doing who, and if there is real cause to conduct surveillance over suspected terrorist. But if the case is I am gone do what ever I want to those people who they think against their opinion or what I am doing. That is misuse of power.
There was evidence of abuse of surveillance powers by some states that we mentioned above, with the name of war on terror wrongly being "used to spy on innocent people.
If the surveillance is intended for suspected terrorist, why we have to be subjected these tactics and secrecy? How can we trust that information collected from use not being improperly used, there should be much more openness about what data is collected, by whom and how it is used for the surveillance.
The key is to strike the right balance between privacy, protection and fighting war on terror.
This provides law enforcement agencies with the tools to protect the public... while ensuring there are effective safeguards and a solid legal framework to protect civil liberties.
The Bush administration has rejected claims of surveillance on Americans but we have seen it we learned and still continue.
Over the past eight years under Bush administration we've been told don´t talk about this. Nothing to fear' but a stream of surveillance, data bungles and abuses of power suggest that even the innocent have a lot to fear.
So many innocent people in America have suffered Aerial surveillance, planes that they saw flying overhead and flowing them where ever they go, wiretapping, invasion of privacy, were two examples of threats to their privacy, and safety.
This people are calling investigation or compensation because they have been subject to illegal surveillance.
The Bush administration said those tools were "essential" to fight against terrorism but people who have nothing to do with any terrorism or any crime have subjected 24 hours surveillance without any oversight. Tax payer´s money was spent for just individuals who perhaps happen to be community activist, journalist who spoke against the surveillance abuses. Abuses of power mean "even the innocent have a lot to fear".
Civil liberties campaigners have warned about the risks of a "power abuses" in which the state acquires ever-greater powers to track people's movements and retain personal data.
Controversial wiretapping and surveillance is still alive and continuing without oversight. Those abuses are still happening in the US especially in states like Minnesota, Wisconsin that and others.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has now joined House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers in proposing some sort of "truth and reconciliation" commission for the crimes of Bush and Cheney, as if Bush and Cheney have multiplied into a whole population that simply cannot be processed by our judicial system.
There can be no justification for doing that. American deserves truth, and accountability, who is doing who, and if there is real cause to conduct surveillance over suspected terrorist. But if the case is I am gone do what ever I want to those people who they think against their opinion or what I am doing. That is misuse of power.
There was evidence of abuse of surveillance powers by some states that we mentioned above, with the name of war on terror wrongly being "used to spy on innocent people.
If the surveillance is intended for suspected terrorist, why we have to be subjected these tactics and secrecy? How can we trust that information collected from use not being improperly used, there should be much more openness about what data is collected, by whom and how it is used for the surveillance.
The key is to strike the right balance between privacy, protection and fighting war on terror.
This provides law enforcement agencies with the tools to protect the public... while ensuring there are effective safeguards and a solid legal framework to protect civil liberties.
The Bush administration has rejected claims of surveillance on Americans but we have seen it we learned and still continue.
Over the past eight years under Bush administration we've been told don´t talk about this. Nothing to fear' but a stream of surveillance, data bungles and abuses of power suggest that even the innocent have a lot to fear.
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