[lbo-talk] The most blatant of blatant hypocrisy

boddi satva lbo.boddi at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 14:34:14 PST 2005


In case you comrades have not seen this, this is a speech (which the mainstream media apparently could not find, despite the NYT's having this story for a year)

The link for audio and full transcript follow, but the beautiful piece is this:

"When the President says something, he better mean it. See, in order to make the world more peaceful, it's essential that those of us in positions of high responsibility speak clearly and mean what we say.,....

......Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. It's important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution."

Credit Air America for finding the clip:

http://www.wegoted.com/data/upfiles/editorial/Bush%20on%20wiretaps.mp3

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040420-2.html



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