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Senate Trashes Civil Liberties; House to Vote Today
The U.S. Senate passed its version of the "anti-terrorism" legislation last night. The Washington Post, CNN, and Wired all have stories. There are terrorists under every rock, and we must destroy our freedom in order to save it. Remember: gamblers are terrorists too. The House is apparently going to drop their version of the legislation and vote on a copy of the Senate bill.
What about the collective silence regarding the Federal Government's continued violation of the Tenth Amendment?
What about the disarming of law abiding American Citizens who wish to exercise their HUMAN RIGHT of self-defense not to mention their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to keep and bear arms.
BTW, if you are between the ages of 18 and 45, a US Citizen, etc then by law (Federal & California) you are a member of the militia. Why then do they make it so difficult to "keep and bear arms"????
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Do you want to feel safe, or do you want to be free?
Its hardly the mutually exclusive choice that you make it out to be.
If it means giving up the "freedom" to illegally gamble at off shore casinos... I can live with that.
If it means that the government can "eavesdrop" over an insecure medium such as the internet.. fine.
If it means a very sensical restructuring of goverment wiretap laws, I'm fine with that.
Basically theres nothing to get excited about here. I know these so called privacy groups have to raise a rucus in order to keep people contributing to their cause, but really its sick to see them exploiting a rather level headed bill for their own ends.
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See what you can do with groups such as the ACLU to take any issues to court and challenge on constitutional grounds.
The ACLU? Are you kidding? They're too busy trying to shut down nativity scenes to worry about things like this. They are about the last group that I'd want to depend on to defend our freedoms. Oh sure, they'll go all out for you, as long as you pass their PC litmus test, but anything beside that...fuhgeddaboutit!
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