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NARA Goes Online
TeachingMachines writes "NARA, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, has gone online. NARA's self-described mission is 'to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of Federal officials, and the national experience.' A very relevant site for the times, with transcripts and images of the most politically important documents of the United States. Included are the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights. Check out the list of available documents. The site is pretty large, with some incredible exhibits, and even an image of the original Magna Carta. Definitely worth a look."
Now that its online, we get to nuke it back off? You people are just too easily amused.
*checks out the website thats growing slower*
My potato gun was confiscated by the United Nations. They said I wasn't allowed to have weapons of mash destruction.
Folks, this is the answer to our prayers! Once the masses can get to these documents via the web, they'll actually read about the rights they have and discover that they're being taken for a ride by any number of special interest groups, politicians, media conglomerates, Attorney Generals *cough*, little ole' ladies, etc.
Time for us to just sit back and enjoy the ride. Any moment now, the US population is going to wake up.
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
after all, it's a historical archive of rights
we used to have.
It'll certainly be useful when kids start asking these questions:
"Daddy, is it true you used to have the right to privacy?"
"Daddy, is it true you used to have the right to see the evidence against you and defend against it?"
to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens
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until it was
I hope you used a scan you can't detect...It's never good to nmap the government.