| Tapping into civic rights | | Print | |
| Written by Kyle Johnstone | |
| Thursday, 02 March 2006 | |
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Approximately 2,700 soldiers have died since the beginning of the war in Iraq, and I send my regards to anyone who has lost a relative or friend in Iraq. However, it was not a surprise to me when I heard George Bush was taking us to war in Iraq; the day he was elected I expected something bad would happen. However, it is a surprise even to me to hear that President Bush has been tapping Americans’ phone lines.
It is now known that President Bush gave permission and may have asked the National Security Agency (NSA) to intercept calls between the United States and foreign countries, or that’s what they want us to think they were doing. Sometime during the procedure, the NSA “accidentally” picked up phone calls that were placed within the United States. America has once again been deceived. We have a president who eavesdrops on our phone calls, and a Congress full of Republicans. Unfortunately, it is not the first time that a president has listened in on what private citizens say. In 1974, President Richard Nixon was accused of wiretapping Americans’ phones. Nixon would have been impeached for his action, but he resigned before he was tried. I don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist, but it is hard to believe that the NSA would make such a huge mistake. Also, since Bush was caught, I have heard nothing come out of his mouth that sounded like an apology. Instead he only expressed anger for being ratted out. Americans are outraged, and they very well should be. We, as Americans, have the right to have a conversation with a friend or family member and not have someone we don’t know listening in on the conversation. I don’t want to sound like one of those people who say that because of Bush they don’t want to be an American. However, I think at the least Bush should apologize for the mistake that he made. |
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