The question is: What does Bush think a "terrorist" is?

[pdxmom]

The Republicans keep insisting that all of this surveillance is to find the "terrorists" and those that want to do harm to this country. But we know that they have spied on the Quakers, Greenpeace, anti-war groups, peace activists, PETA, and who knows what others. I believe that the domestic spying that is going on is illegal, under the 4th amendment. But let's assume that it's legal. My next concern is whose definition of "terrorist" is being used? How does this administration define someone who "wants to do harm to this country"?

We know there is an active move to stifle dissent. And I believe that this administration would use dissent as an excuse to name a group or an individual a threat to this country. We hear almost weekly about some poor innocent who finds out they're on a watch list, and that there is no way to get them off. Wasn't it Sen. Kennedy who was on a watch list? How does that happen?

No way do I believe this spying isn't being used against average citizens. No way do I believe it's a list of a bunch of phone numbers with no identifying information. What would be the purpose of phone numbers if they didn't follow up with identifying information? They are lying, they are spying and they are going to continue to get away with these fishing expeditions if Congress and the media doesn't engage in full-fledged oversight.

[wakeme2008]

1. Well it starts is a big D..

:grr:

[pdxmom]

3. That "you're either for us or against thing" huh? All of us that are

in the "against war" column are a danger in his small little mind.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. 200 million Americans

He's insane...

EDIT...Bush is the World's Worst Conspiracy Nut...

[rustydog]

6. Dead on! nuff said

[johnaries]

4. Terrorist = Freedom Loving Liberals.

Remember, his job would be so much easier if he was the dictator (aka Unitary Executive).

[crappyjazz]

5. I'm more interested in who defines what an "ordinary" American is

That scares me more.

[Rex]

7. Anyone who would seriously threaten his Regime.

Right now that would be his 29% approval rating and Fitzgerald. I would like to say it means OBL, but apparently Big Benny only comes out before and after election cycles. :(

[neoblues]

8. Terrorist is just a word meaning some nebulous...

unstoppable, evil monster with which to scare the children into needing their Daddy's protection; as in a means to an opportunity--the opportunity to grab more power. Hence the "war" on "terror".

[reichstag911]

9. Thus has it always been.

Look back on any anti-authoritarian insurgency/revolution in history, and those fighting for people to have a greater voice in their own governance have always been labelled "terrorists" or some equivalent thereof.