Democrats Stand by Pres. Lucifer on NSA Surveillance

A new national survey of U.S. adults by the Pew Research Center and the Washington Post finds that Democrats have done a complete switcheroo on the federal government’s phone surveillance of Americans — from 61% saying it’s unacceptable in January 2006 when Republican George W. Bush was president, to 64% saying it’s acceptable in June 2013 with their man, Barack Obama, as president.

But then Democrats are simply being as unprincipled and hypocritical as their man.

In 2005, then-Senator Obama sponsored a bill called the SAFE Act that would have amended the Patriot Act to require government agencies to show cause that a person targeted for government snooping is an agent of a foreign power before accessing his/her phone records. (H/t FOTM’s Joseph)

Even more depressing is the latest Pew survey’s findings that, despite last week’s revelations of the Obama regime’s collection of phone records and internet data of every American, there are no changes in the American people’s fundamental views about the tradeoff between investigating possible terrorism and protecting personal privacy.

A majority of Americans – 56% – say the National Security Agency’s (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans is an acceptable way for the government to investigate terrorism, though a substantial minority – 41% – say it is unacceptable. And while the public is more evenly divided over the government’s monitoring of email and other online activities to prevent possible terrorism, these views are largely unchanged since 2002, shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Truly, we are a nation of sheep instead of free men and women.