ACLU v. NSA reversed, Gross Gloats

The ACLE v. NSA ruling was reversed not because of the merits of the arguments at the heart of the case, but rather, that the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring the case. Don't make this out for more than it is; the arguments still hold water, and if not the ACLU, then some other group or individual may certainly step forward to bring this case, and this time, clearly with standing.

What is it about conservatives that they hate our freedoms? Why gloat, and why oppose a fight that is for some of our most fundamental rights? Why conflate international and domestic intelligence gathering (as though the separate agencies hadn't been in place for a reason)? Its not like anybody said the government shouldn't investigate and survey suspicious characters; there already is that mechanism and system under the FISA courts, which you ironically quote and twist their argument to support this, frankly un-American concept.
History seems to have to repeat itself, as we go through yet another cycle in which individual rights are curtailed by the government, only to have the rights restored with an even greater understanding of why they should not be curtailed, and the ensuing regulation and law that comes with further guarantees. Commenter Carlos continuously accuses me of wanting a huge "guvmint" that coddles every citizen, when this is case-in-point that I want the government out of my private life, along with shedding the huge bureaucracy required to perform this level of domestic spying!

Meanwhile, the chatter that has been reported is being compared to the level the Summer before 9/11. Al Queda is issuing statements of "spectacular" attacks. I suppose that despite these warnings, it will be a big shock that no one was paying attention, and we can attribute it to the liberals fighting domestic spying terrorist surveillance.

And not the fact that we're creating enemies faster than we can kill them.