Letters to the Editor
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This way to complaint department
See signing statements. Take the receipt, aka the Constitution, and proceed to the Complaint Department. Bring pitchforks and torches. ;-)
Or, if pressed for time, substitute Visa Card for implements of destruction.
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Add Hillary to the List
There's absolutely no point in helping to elect Democrats like that to the presidency or helping them to stay there.
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What are people thinking about Spitzer today...
In the advent of new info, it seems that Spitzer's use of shell accounts to route money to the prostitution ring is what set off the wire tap. I think its suspicious that only Spitzer's account activity was caught up this way, but he did leave himself open, certainly. I don't have a moral issue with prostitution, but I don't want my governor setting up shell accounts to pay prostitutes. I'd rather have a governor who either didn't do that, or was open about the fact that he likes call girls.
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oh boy.
I'm about to become the guinea pig to test my college's reaction to people like me. Even if my faculty and administrators love me, I can still get kicked out of the school if the more conservative Board of Trustees or Board of Regents decide they don't want to deal with me. And it would be completely legal for them to do so. And then I would be stuck without my degree, without a job, without a home.
Sitting in the front of the bus sounds pretty tame in comparison. And sadly, the general populace is so ignorant of what me and my peers go through that they think I am selfishly insulting the memory of Civil Rights activists to even suggest such a thing.
So don't tell me about activism or standing up for what's right. People like me have to stand up to society simply for our existence to be acknowledged. I'm going to have to stand up to the public scrutiny of everyone in my community just to get my name on a diploma.
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just how sweeping is the administration's spying on domestic calls and emails of Americans
You do not even have to be making a call to be the subject of surveillance. Your phone can be powered off yet it has the capacity to be remotely activated, without appearing to be on. If you are meeting with a client and wish to be discrete, you must remove the battery from your phone.
No joke. This "feature" was built in more than a decade ago.
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notorious
"You left one out. Democrats who have a majority of their constituents that support amnesty and-or warrantless eavesdropping."
Those majorities do not exist. Especially on the amnesty front.
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Twice as nice
would allow telecoms to submit any classified information to the court to demonstrate that they did not break the law.
Doesn't CIPA already cover this?
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/crm02054.htm
Is there any real change to the CIPA procedures with the democrats proposal or is this another one of the "if we put a law on the books twice, then the administration is sure to follow it now" bills that the democrats have grown so fond of?
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@ Rosenkavalier
You haven't said what, and I haven't asked, nor will I. Whatever it is, I'm not accusing you personally of anything. Do what you feel you must do -- with my blessing, however much or little that might be worth to you. I wish you all the best, truly. Freedom from fear, above all.
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Click on the link
Sign the petition. Give them some money - I gave some, not much but some.
We must nip the fascist state in the bud. We do NOT need more spying, more warrantless intrusion.
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Rosenkavalier
Mr. Mill is on your side.
Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still vulgarly, held in dread, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities. But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant — society collectively over the separate individuals who compose it — its means of tyrannizing are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political functionaries. Society can and does execute its own mandates; and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself. Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development and, if possible, prevent the formation of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own. There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs as protection against political despotism. — On Liberty
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The Lesson Of The Bad Democrats
One would wish this discussion had begun in January '07, but in can case we've now learned an important lesson going into the future - we even need leverage on Democrats if we want them to do the right thing. Even if we win the White House and a huge majority in congress, we'll need leverage against the corporations and the big check writers, or we will be very disappointed in our victory.
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Lamont Lieberman primary.
Does anyone remember the press' reaction to the Lieberman/Lamont primary? The cable channels acted as if it was the Democrats stabbing Lieberman in the back, as if just because he belongs to the party, regardless of his ideals, we should support him. This is the same press that claims to dismiss partisans, yet when the Democrats show that they are not partisan to a single political party, they claim to be shocked at all this infighting. To them the issues don't matter. They don't see the Democrats and Republicans in terms of their policy differences, they see them in terms of a soap opera.