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Ted Cruz is awesome. Truly.

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we petition the obama administration to:
require that Syrian rebels receiving weapons be held to the same restrictions as American citizens.

require that Syrian rebels receiving firearms and other munitions from the US Government receive only firearms legal for US Civilian ownership, and undergo the same background and security checks a US Civilian would, including appropriate NFA tax stamps, and waiting periods.

2firfun50 wrote:In my way of thinking, these is no "balance" when the government is violating the 4th amendment by vacuuming up everyone's phone metadata. This metadata may not contain the actual voice communication, but what about the body of text messages?

Senator Cruz isn't, at least, coming out like other members of both parties and loudly defending the unconstitutional data collection. He isn't condemning it either..

Jury's still out for me... The question is... Do I believe they're only collecting the data from the outside of the envelope?

If in fact they can only see the "To" and "From", then it's less of an issue for me, other than the fact that anything that causes media grief for Obama is a happy moment. I can certainly argue that collecting data about me IN ANY WAY without PC is a violation of the trust I cede to my government... Remember, I own the government, they do not own me... However... if they are "copying my mail" so they can have the opportunity to look at it later if they get a probable cause hit on my metadata, then that, certainly, is a 4th Amendment violation, IMO.

Bazinga.!!