If you wish to remain happy, when picking a politician to support, just keep in mind that it is not possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

Can I still yet get another amen?

It's making me sick listening to you delineate the roster of SLOTEO's "abandonment of core principles".

I suggest everyone listen in, here

http://www.onpointradio.org/

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Glenn and fellow readers,

Please consider comiming to the march this Saturday on the National Mall in Washington DC.

Civil liberties is just the start. These issues go far beyond warrantless wiretapping and amnesty.

There is more at stake and we need to make our voices (literally) heard.

A link can be found here at: www.revolutionmarch.com or you can simply google "revolution march".

IF anyone has any questions, please feel free to email me at manofliberty AT gmail DOT com.

In Liberty,

I see Dems around the internets are really, really mad at Obama.

Some aren't going to "max out" their contributions to him...until next month (maybe?). Some are only giving $$$ to the DCCC, DSCC, the DNC or some local schmuck.

Some have already written mean e-mails to his website and called his staff and to tell them they are very, very angry and disappointed with ObamaGod.

I imagine some are busy peeling their "Vote Change, Vote Obama" bumper stickers off their BMWs at this moment.

But a good portion of the Gump crew has rationalized to the point that they think ObamaGod's vote on FISA might be a good deal in the long run. Afterall, the Government has been spying on us illegally for decades anyway so this just makes it legal.

Besides education is a more important topic for us, So what's the big deal?!

But the one thing you can bet the thousands and thousands of Dems and Web Dems won't do is stay home on Election Day. Or - God forbid - vote for a third party candidate like Barr or Nader or some socialist. Nahhh, that would be just throwing your vote away and they're much too sophisticated for that.

This is a serious, important election, Remember.

The Supreme Court is at stake. A woman's right to choose is riding on the outcome. And don't forget the three ''I's'' - Iran, Iraq and Israel .

So because of that I'm going to Vote Obama, they write.

And if he loses, rest assured it won't be the candidates fault or the Party Leadership's fault or least of all the Netroots complicity in perpetrating the Obama myth. No it will be because of Rush and Faux News and the Wall Street Journal Editorial page and Bill and Hillary Clinton.

So until then, Mr. Obama do what you gotta do. And can you make that next Sista Soljah spanking with a steel rod, right between the eyes. Pretty, pretty please!!!

THANK YOU, Sir.

...The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Act (HR1955, passed; S1959, in committee) plus the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act equals not a return to McCarthyism, but to the days of the first Red Scare and the Palmer Raids.

Hell, one Andrew Stepanian is serving 3 years participating in a non-violent protest which happened be successful, thereby violating the earlier Animal Enterprise Protection Act.

Says Andrew, "I sat through a court case of about 40 days, and at the end of it, I was convicted, mainly on evidence stemming from my attendance at a protest against an auditing firm by the name of Deloitte & Touche. The prosecutors claim that because Deloitte & Touche severed its relationship with Huntingdon Life Sciences, Huntingdon Life Sciences may have incurred more than $10,000 in damages. And as long as a threshold of $10,000 is met, I could participate in legal activities leading up to that point, but the second I cause $10,000 of intellectual damage, then I could be charged under this conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Protection Act. I would be charged with a substantive charge if I actually destroyed some property, for example, that was worth $10,000, but in this case, it was a purely intellectual matter." (http://www.democracynow.org/2006/10/3/first_member_of_shac_7_heads)

If the government and imprison a man for participating in a perfectly legal (but successful) protest before VRHTA and AETA and before the official legalization of warrantless spying, imagine what the government can and will do with it's Congressionally-approved powers.

And while right-wingers out there may say, "P'shaw! What do I care about animal rights freaks and the blame-America-firsters?" I say: Remember Waco. Remember Ruby Ridge. Remember them because the government doesn't have to rely on trumped-up child abuse or gun charges to get you anymore.

...As the White House would say about Glenn Greenwald:

"Mr. Greenwald is suffering from a pre-4th Amendment America mindset."

Glenn:

Would it be legally possible for citizens to file suit in Federal court challenging the constitutionality of this new law? The grounds would be the Fourth Amendment, of course; but also Article I, Section 9, clause 3 of the Constitution.

I've not yet seen anyone propose this course of action, which if legally possible, would appear to be the only remaining way that citizens could overcome the misdeeds of a feckless Congress.

And let me add parenthetically, even though I have been--and remain, I think--an Obama supporter, I most certainly want you to continue to monitor and publicize inconsistencies and hypocrisy (if and as it comes to that) in his publicly stated positions and subsequent actions on this and other issues.

So I guess you are voting for McCain, then. After all, he'll probably make mocking liberals a national sport.

With his immaculate dissection.

This is far from over. The ACLU and EFF and any other organization with the mission and the means needs to make this an Article III challenge and take it all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. Congress overstepped its Constitutional authority in the past 7 years, and he current Court has ruled that, and this is another example. What judge would seriously rule that retroactive immunity is allowable in what is clearly law-breaking with the courts needing to have judicial power in this proceeding? It may take time, it may take citizenry as you write Glenn, but it is possible. And what a pathetic turn of events for the Obama campaign.