Cornyn: ‘Of Course White House is Collecting Names’

Impossible to think this administration
would do this! They are the epitome
of “transparency”, or so we’re told
by Mr. Gibbs each and every day.
Every time I see him or the President,
I can see right through them. Every
time.

Sen. John Cornyn’s concerns can be best described in one word:
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a lie as “a false statement made with intent to deceive.” The dictionary complicates matters by telling us that to deceive is “to cause to believe what is false, to mislead as to a matter of fact, to lead into error”. It also tells us that “in modern use, the word [“lie”] is normally a violent expression of moral reprobation, which in polite conversation tends to be avoided, the synonyms falsehood and untruth being often substituted as relatively euphemistic.” This is where the trouble begins. Are “falsehood” and “untruth” really synonyms for “lying?” Is lying an attempt merely to mislead or an attempt to get someone to believe that which is false? Or is lying used in two different ways? It can be argued that all that is needed for lying are beliefs about what is true or false — not knowledge of what is true or false.

Lies are effective because we are insecure about many of our beliefs and are quite vulnerable to the suggestion that those beliefs might be false. And they work because we might be predisposed to believe them already.

wow, what is obama thinking. Doesn’t get his way, & good % of people don’t agree with his hlt care plan, so what does he do starts an enemy list. Not a good idea. How about you present a hlt care plan that has details & not try to torpedo it through.

Obama has continued, and indeed in some cases accelerated, programs that Cornyn friends (like Bushs) initiated. OF COURSE the government, and especially the Executive Branch, is taking names! And SS#s, and emails, and phone calls, free speech zones, and photographs at demonstrations, etc. And Obama wants to continue this and have a “Czar”, politically appointed, have access to ALL your personal health/medical information and wants to eliminate doctor-patient privledge. He, or his minions, have implied that free speech is now a bad thing (because politicians, who never read the bill(s), are ashamed because people back home shout at them) I guess highly paid (and lobbyist/hedgefund funded never heard about “sticks and stones”! Why are they so afraid of words?

it is not a lie if you believe it to be true. This is the pyschological “trick” of certain people: of cultists, sociopaths, fundamentalists of many religions, crazed Repubs, druggies, Obama cadres, or even people in bad situations- is that they have convinced themselves of a lie. Certain people: salespeople, conmen, politicians, can also use this technique. But the problem is that, eventually, it is hard to fake it, and you can end up the same as the above. Or worse as the leader of those poor souls.
So, they aren’t “lying” when they state false things; they can believe and state things that aren’t objectively true, in total confindence of their truth. And in their speeches, sermons, claims be very convincing especially in times of crisis– or to those in crisis who hope “The One” is the there to help them.

Thus begins what was known in the Soviet Union as ‘The Interior Ministry’

SearamblerOne: 3000 innocent American citizens were killed in one day in an evil brutal attack. Can’t you see that extraordinary safeguards had to be put in place to prevent the possibility of more. My son works for the NSA as an Arabic translator and I can vouch for the voracity of that program. The Patriot Act was NOT used to gather information on any Americans that were simply opposed to Bush policies. Wake-up, we live in a dangerous world, but it will be more than just dangerous if we let Obama get away with using his office to intimidate and infringe on the free-speech rights of those who disagree with him.

With American Politicians taking a vacation, the news media in the USA is covering up the most illegal activities of an American President since Richard Nixon.
President Obama and his administration through illegal acts of gathering and soliciting emails and conversations about information from one citizen about another American citizen has broken the law . Specifically the 1974 privacy act.
As always the pro and biased USA main stream media is no where to be found these days when it comes to reporting facts or informing the public about Obama’s illegal and unconstitutional acts.
This current attempt for erosion of the peoples civil liberties, being orchestrated from the white house against the people of America has not been seen since the Nixon years.
Any criticism about Obama and his policies are labelled as racist, yet the only racist remarks keep emanating directly from and within the white house.
It is time for criminal charges to be laid in a court of law against Obama his administration and his unelected gang of czars for these unconstitutional acts against the American people.
Time for Congress and the Senate to hold hearings on the possible impeachment of this President for such illegal activities sponsored and directed from the white house and for an independent prosecutor to be appointed.

Even if they were collecting names, the only names that they’d have are those of the people forwarding the emails, not the originators. So, tell me again, what’s the problem? If you don’t want them to have your email, don’t send them any mail.

They already have the GPS coordinates to your front door, they have the ability to track you on the net they were just looking for a little help from a friend. Illegal help but help nontheless. They have to keep al communications they receive so whay not help them by sending all the chain emails to them. Redirect spam to the flag site. Send all the nonesense articles about the chosen one to the site too. I am not worried, they already have my name, know where I live.
work and play. So I think I will just have fun jamming up the works.

what hypocrisy sense Cornyn support the Bush administration’s Patriot Act… essentially giving the government free reign to spy on it’s own citizens…
So what Cornyn is saying that it was ok to spy on American citizens who opposed the Iraq war…
But, it is not ok for to use those same techniques for those American citizens that are misleading the American public with misinformation??? Right…
So If I am understanding this correctly that if Bush was still the President, and trying to get health care reform passed, which he had brought up in 2006 in Dublin, Ohio, and again in 2007 in his state of the union speech. It would ok for Bush to spy on those American citizen that oppose such reform… but…. hey, wait a minute…..
The trouble with supporting policies like the Patriot Act is that the next guy in office has access to those same policies, Senator… dingaling!
Does it make it right, no of course not… but once the door has been opened, it means others can walk through it.
Where have all the sensible Republicans gone… ?

The Whitehouse may not be taking names, but this voter sure is, and will work against every lying Republican and the turn-coat Democrats who answer to big money corporations whose only interest is more profit at the expense of the American people.