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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 11:18 AM

    @The Reality Kid

    "Prosecution for future crimes"

    Interesting how that "Minority Report" concept has tainted the jurisprudence for citizens of the US and the globe.

    If one ponders the preemptive, offensive posture the PAct 1&2 codify, there is room to predict all states and nations' people are suspect for potential lawless acts against the laws pertaining to anarchy, insurrection, corporate/economic terrorism, and all the rest of patriot-oriented neurosis.

    It's that-- pin the rabble-rousers to the cross, before they knew they were free and innocent advantage.

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