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Bookseller Purges Records to Avoid PATRIOT Act
Skyshadow writes "Vermont Bookseller Bear Pond Books has announced that they will purge their sales records at the request of customers . This would effectively sidestep typically insideous a provision of the PATRIOT Act which allows government agencies to secretly seize sales records. The store's co-owner, Michael Katzenberg, put it this way: 'When the CIA comes and asks what you've read because they're suspicious of you, we can't tell them because we don't have it... That's just a basic right, to be able to read what you want without fear that somebody is looking over your shoulder to see what you're reading.' Now if only certain other booksellers would show that same conscience, we might have something here."
I'm sorry but it is my right as a TRUE American to know if you are some kind of terrorist, communist, anarcist or if you practice some freaky religion like well you know any non protastant religion. I mean my damn the only reason you would buy a book on Arabic or the history of Labor is if you are going to subvert the government so the BLUE HELMETS (***PUKE***) at the United Nations can come and take my guns
anyone who want to be president has to have been an officer in the one of the armed forces.
That's so pompus you sould be shot.
If anything, I say anybody who wants to be president should have been a real person. Done REAL work. Swung a hammer. Laid Bricks. Built a Car. Stocked a Warehouse. Drove a Truck. Real good honest working man stuff. They should have had to make ends meet on realistic wages. And know what it's like to have a job that might not be there tomorrow. And most importantly, know what it's like to not be handed things.
The military may be a necessary evil, but it's still an evil. In no way does having been in the armed forces constitute any special status or give anyone any given rights. If anything you gave up your rights. Doubly so for "Officers", which anybody who knows anything about the Military know are just a bullshit political game to begin with.
I know more about the Military than the average civilian, and perhaps more than most people in the Military. From what I personally know, an ex-officer is the LAST person I would want as a US President.
Keep the big business owners and war-mongers out of the office.
Typical slashdot....
I certainly don't want some draft dodging mophead as president.
Didn't some US leaders claim terrorists were just jealous of the US? Solution: make the US a shit place to live, just like the crappy third world countries terrorists are from. Once the US is as bad as them, the War on Terror will be won. Yay! I wish all you Americans luck in the next election...
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has to have been an officer in the one of the armed forces.
Yeah, I veto that right off the bat. I certainly don't want some dummy monkey military meathead in charge of the country.
Well then you run the problem having to have an "advisor(s)" for the randomly chosen person. It's been in movies a million times the advisor is always corrupt
And of course using movies as a basis for predicting the events of real life is a valid method of argument.
Jesus Christ, no wonder this country is in a sad state.
I'm the big fish in the big pond bitch.