February 21st, 2008 by Steve Farrell

by Andrew C. McCarthy.

On Tuesday, we got a double-winner. First, the Senate voted to approve an overhaul of intelligence law which, though flawed, provides authority for American intelligence agencies to continue monitoring the savages trying to kill us. Second, we got inescapable confirmation that Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the two contenders to be the Democrats’ nominee, are not fit to be president of the United States.

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Stiff Right Jab responds: Some conservatives sided with the Democrats (and the ACLU) on this one saying that the eavesdropping law permitted warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens. Others, like Mr. McCarthy, claim the law only permitted this surveillance of foreign nationals (who thus have no 4th Amendment rights). McCarthy, admits however, that U.S. citizens haven’t been permitted to see the law. That admission alone, Mr McCarthy, gives us pause. Our founders did not give their blood, sweat, and tears for a government run by secretive elites who we ought to blindly trust with our lives, liberties, and property … in the name of a War on Terror, national security, or any other supposed crisis.

4,000 died on 9-11, 50,000 die on our roads every year. Let’s have a little perspective here. We don’t do away with our sacred rights because of deaths; we go after the criminals and bring them to justice. They, not us, need their rights taken away.

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