Nobody Likes the New FBI Law

Posted by Lorren on July 30, 2010

Earlier this week, I decided to start watching the leftist sites to see what they’re up to. After all, if Obama’s friends at Netroots are going to be watching people like me, I might as well be watching them. I can probably find new insights about what’s going on by watching the other side as well.

One thing that I learned today is that nobody likes the new FBI law. If you haven’t heard about what’s going on lately, the FBI can now request your electronic records… or at least that is what is being proposed. I’m not sure if it has actually passed or not. They can examine your records, and you can’t legally tell anyone that they came to look at them. Now, Glenn Beck said last night that you couldn’t tell anybody that they took your records, but what is going to stop you? If the FBI shows up on my door and copies all of my electronic records, I will publish it far and wide (that is, of course, until they haul me off to prison for violating that law and telling people).

So in one of my first ventures into the world of the other side, I decided to visit The Daily Kos. I discovered that they do not like the new FBI law either. 8ackgr0und N015e pointed out that “I don’t trust the FBI”. Well, that makes two of us. I do realize that there’s a place for intelligence gathering and crime control, but I certainly don’t think that they should be able to act without judicial oversight.

It’s very tragic, because I think that there are many things that most Americans do agree on, but the powers that be are succeeding in keeping people divided on minutiae. For example, the other day I had a conversation with someone on the left who was against the crooks in big business. Well, what do you know, so am I! So are many people I know. If someone is a crook, they need to be prosecuted and go to jail.

It is too bad that we can’t unite on the things that many of us can agree upon, like allowing the FBI to seize our electronic records without a warrant, and without being able to legally tell others that they did come and take our records.