Although the House of Representatives Voted to Continue Funding the NSA’s Limitless Spying on Americans — the Vote Was Surprisingly Close — Perhaps Some Americans Are Finally Waking to the Fact that Abandoning America’s Historically Held Values Away Is a Bad Idea

26 July 2013

Slightly less than half full

Jason Mick summarized what happened:

Just over half of the U.S. House of Representatives approve of the federal government spending billions to police not only terrorists and criminals, but also snoop on the lives of the 98+ percent of Americans.

The razor thin majority argues that to be free of terror, Americans must be willing to give up their freedoms and rights -- including the right to privacy.

A proposed amendment to the U.S. Defense Appropriations Bill (H.R. 2397), an annual measure to fund the defense and intelligence agencies, would have "turned off Big Brother" by scaling back spying by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), who tracks the movements of smartphone-using Americans on a daily basis.

The vote for suspending snoop funding was 205 in favor to 217 against.

The moral? — The Yellow Bellies won — but not by much

One cannot be a coward and free at the same time. Americans used to know that, without even thinking about it.

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Although the House of Representatives Voted to Continue Funding the NSA’s Limitless Spying on Americans — the Vote Was Surprisingly Close — Perhaps Some Americans Are Finally Waking to the Fact that Abandoning America’s Historically Held Values Away Is a Bad Idea