NSA WIRETAPPING: JUDGE RULES, ACLU, LEFT AND TERRORISTS WINNERS, AMERICA LOSES

Today is the first opportunity this week that I have been able to post due to internet problems that were fixed yesterday and it saddens me to post on this subject because through the efforts of a liberal organization and a liberal judge America loses. Yesterday U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, a Jimmy Carter appointee ruled that the NSA Terrorist Survelliance Program, (better and falsly known through media biased reports as the NSA, "Doemestic Spying, " program), was un-constitutional stating that the program violated free speech and seperation of powers. Ironically the ACLU which brought the suit on behalf of, "journalists, scholars and lawyers, " who claim the program has made it difficult for them to perform their jobs, used as its basis for the suit the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which was also an addition under Jimmy Carter. The ACLU suit stated that it was filed on behalf of the, " journalists, scholars and lawyers, " because the program had as, "LIKELY TARGETS, " overseas contacts. This in itself brings the filing of the lawsuit into question, in my opinion, since it was filed on the bases of possiblities of, "likely, " surveillance of contacts and not factual proof of that surveillance. Additionally if these supposed contacts have ties to terrorism they have no business being used as news, scholarly or legal sources since their very occupation could pose a threat to the nation. But then again when have, "journalists, " some lawyers and many liberal scholars in recent years concerned themselves with United States national security.

I realize that many of you who read this post will argue as the ACLU did that the President does not have a Constitutional right to, "wiretap, " the phones and e-mails of US citizens. In this I totally agree. The Constitution protects our privacy and that is as it should be. But the Constitution does not protect the privacy of those who plan or take actions against the United States with the intent of killing our citizens or doing the country harm. The NSA program has continually been reprtoed as a domestic wiretapping program giving the false idea that this program listens in on the conversations that take place daily between ordinary citizens which is NOT what this program does or has the capability of doing. This program is designed and has time and again fulfilled its objective of surveillance against terrorists and their contacts with the goal of stopping attacks before they occur. In the wake of another successful use of the program with the arrest and foiling of the terrorist plot to blow up 10 US bound airliners, which I might add would not have been stopped had this program not been in existence since the interception of phone calls by the NSA between the plotters and its imminent implimintation was what sparked the British to move and arrest those involved, the ending of this program has placed the United States and our allies in a very vulnerable position against future terrorist attacks. This program has been a vital and necessary tool in the war on terror in disrupting cells, planned attacks and the finding of terrorists and with the ruling handed down yesterday calling for the immediate ending of the program leaves the nation less secure then it was just two days ago. The only real winners with this ruling are the terorist themselves. Even those who have fought for this lawsuit, the ACLU, and those on the left who have cheered it on and rejoice in yesterdays outcome, though they believe they have achieved a great victory against the Bush administration, each of them have lost just as much as those who believe this program necessary and right. Terrorist do not care about anybodies politics. They do no care whether you lean left or right. They do not care about our Constitution which has not been violated I might add. They only care about the death of the infidel and stopping this prgram has given them an advantage in achieving that goal that two days ago they did not have. It is a sad day when politics becomes more important than security. It is a sad day when following a political agenda is more important than the lives of our citizens. It is a sad day when protecting our enemy becomes more important that protecting our people. Yesterday was a sad day for America.

Ken Taylor