Thursday, July 8, 2010

I Guess Nothing is Sacred...

The movie I watched so long along that indicated big brother was watching seemed like a ridiculous notion.  Now, I see most of what I thought would never happen in this country, happening, and it scares me.  Why doesn't it scare everyone?  Are we ready to set aside the constitution and allow the current administration to rob us of all our rights?  Our current President thinks so little of our opinions, he is making decisions that affect each and everyone of us without thought to our feelings.   With Obamacare, the government has access to our medical records and the ability to determine our worthiness of healthcare, so why not allow them access to our financial records.  Is there nothing we hold sacred?   Of course we do, but the government doesn't agree with us.
I cut and pasted this article from the following link:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.ec5c2bbd6ec1548e816faf716d5e53e6.521&show_article=1
 

US President Barack Obama on Thursday praised a deal between the United States and the European Union to share banking data as a key tool in the fight against terror. "The threat of terrorism faced by the United States and the European Union continues and, with this agreement, all of our citizens will be safer," Obama said in a statement released by the White House.
"This new, legally binding agreement reflects significant additional data privacy safeguards but still retains the effectiveness and integrity of this indispensable counter-terrorism program," he said.
European MPs earlier Thursday voted 484-109 for a new five-year deal to allow the United States to again have access to banking information from August 1.
The Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme had allowed US access to information from the interbank money transfer system SWIFT, which is based in Brussels, but EU lawmakers' main concern was how personal information would be used by US authorities.
The TFTP has "provided critical investigative leads -- more than 1,550 to EU Member States -- since its creation after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks," Obama said.
Such leads, he said, have "aided countries around the world in preventing or investigating many of the past decade's most visible and violent terrorist attacks.
US Vice President Joe Biden sought to ease European concerns during a trip to Europe in May, saying "Europeans and Americans alike have valued greatly the privacy of our citizens."
Under the new deal, Europol, the European police organization, will check the validity of US requests.
"We are determined to protect citizens of all nations while also upholding fundamental rights, using every legitimate tool available to combat terrorism that is consistent with our laws and principles," said Obama in welcoming the deal.

1 comment:

Sue McKlveen said...

Big brother is here in a huge way...I'm ready to say 'stop the world, I want to get off' or take on the problem 'children' who need to have a major timeout--out of this great nation. Unbelievable, huh? Now they also want to start charging us for using ATMs--1% of what you're withdrawing. So let me get this straight...to store our money, WE have to pay to get it out again, when they make money off our money? Why put money into a bank, then? The government can see your bank account, and take it when you try to take it out. I see a real problem with this...as would anyone who lived during the Great Depression when there was a run on the banks.

WARNING: I support the office of the President, not the person currently holding it!