Fear Mongering Over FISA Extensions
The Republican National Committee released a video today attacking Senate Democrats for their opposition to the Orwellian FISA extensions. The fear mongering in this video is Tancredo-esque: complete with ticking clocks, jingoism, and simplistic conclusions.
While these scare tactics are especially disturbing, the Arabic like pronunciation of Barack Obama’s name and the vilification of Democrats in general is primitive. That in contrast to the hyperbolic depiction of law enforcement as heroic. Since the Democrats are stymieing the FISA extensions they are, of course, stopping our heroes from getting the tools they need to fight terror.
Back in the real world, we realize that this ad also lies. In reference to retroactive telecom immunity the ad states that Democrats wish to allow lawsuits against telecoms who cooperated with ‘lawful’ government requests. In actuality, Republicans wish to prevent lawsuits against telecoms because the government requests for warrant-less wiretaps were, as noted here on brianmcguigan.com, illegal.
The ad ends with the oblique “After all, the terrorist threat to America never expires.” Apparently our civil liberties do. 00:00
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