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Anti-Civil Liberties Legislation Progresses

Posted by michael on from the steamroller dept.

hillct writes: "The ACLU has a very good comparison chart of anti-terrorism provisions in legislation currently being considered by congress. It covers the Combating Terrorism Act of 2001, the House Bill (PATRIOT Act) and the Senate Bill (USA Act), comparing it all to current law. We've all seen pieces of this information but the ACLU staffers did a great job consolidating it all." CDT also has a very good pdf guide to these about-to-be-passed laws. But the Onion has the best commentary.

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  1. Re:SPOILER ALERT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is that why the movie sucked so much? no it was because of that stupid kid

  2. yay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    gj to all who voted for bush.
    gj

  3. Re:PETA == terrorists? by Mu*puppy · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    People for the Eating of Tasty Animals (PETA), terrorists?? Damnation, I should've known something was up when I got a copy of the Anarchist'S Cookbook along with my membership card...


    (BTW, what -would- be considered 'ethical treatment' for a cow born and raised to someday wind up on a dinner plate...?)

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    There's no wrong way, to eat a Rhesus...
  4. Insightful?!? by cow_licker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey,

    Fellow geek here. Not only a geek, but a vegan as well. I don't see how making some lame comment about PETA gets to be insightful, but anyways... I invite you to check out these realmedia clips here and here, and tell me that PETA doesn't have a cause worth fighting for.

    Personally seeing shit like this makes me forget about how important open source is and focus on more important things.

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    $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$ t=255;@t=map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,
    1. Re:Insightful?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      No one argues that animals shouldn't be treated humanely, but PETA goes way, way beyond to make animals life morally equivalent to human life.

      That makes them complete wackos. Not terrorists necessarily, but definitely wackos.

      Now, they have the perfect right to be a wacko if they want. But when they try and push their wackoness on me, I get pissed. I have the absolute natural right to eat animals because of my place on the food chain.

    2. Re:Insightful?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      We shouldn't worry about treating animals humanely until we can treat humans humanely. End of story.

      Careful with those sweeping generalizations...

    3. Re:Insightful?!? by Drive42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Humans ARE animals. Their life, even counting the lower intelligence, is equivalent to human animal life. So humans want to build a station on the moon and mine minerals, and cows want to sleep and eat grass...who am I to kill that animal when I have other (and more healthy) food sources available?

      I don't think PETA has done a very good job. Their "in your face" advertising and campaigns, while having some truth behind them, only anger those who have, allways thaught that eating other animals was AOK. You don't get people thinking by screaming at them...you get a gut reaction.

      Now if you honestly have thaght about this and have decided for whatevr reason that eating animals is ok, then great! Go for it! I don't have any more right to tell you what to do than I do to decide when an animal lives or dies.

      I don't consider myself a "wacko"

      Please just honestly think before you label me as some sort of fool.

      And Ignore PETA. they don't know what they're doing.

      Sorry for the off-topic post...I just wanted to balance the conversation.