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Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands
MFS! writes "Mount Shasta, California has become the latest city where the USA PATRIOT act is creating a controversy. This story at the Record-Searchlight describes petitioning by a local citizens' rights committee to order police to defy the PATRIOT act. To date, 3 states and 130 cities have passed legislation forbidding local authorities from cooperating with federal PATRIOT requests, not to mention the numerous businesses who are taking pains to hamper the Act's coverage."
This is what I say.
God spoke to me
We can all avoid the places listed, too. This is really smart, putting the locations in the USA where as long as you aren't caught speeding, you can truck all kinds of explosives around, et al. Maybe they're hoping that the terrorists won't notice...
That was pretty much the case up until the Civil War; then a Certain President who everyone seems to worship pretty much put us on the long, painful spiral to our current disgusting state.
Hey, but gas is cheap. kinda.
Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
I'm rather enjoying watching Europe's slow suicide.
- 1.2 births per woman.
- Dying populations.
- The necessity of importing hundreds of millions of Muslims who don't respect your culture, your laws, or your people.
Let us sing a little dirge for the once proud Europeans who are left to grovel at the scraps that the Muslims, soon enough, will choose to give them.
What is it americans like saying to people from other countries again?
Something like:
If you don't like the god-dam laws of your god-dam country get the hell out.
The ACLU has an entire division devoted to promoting and defending government policies which deny people equal access if they have the wrong skin color.
They also resist efforts to protect people's basic civil liberties (they opposed the California Civil Rights Initiative which ended up getting rid of a lot of the racism in the university system).
Jeremy
The war was in fact over slavery. Slavery and little else.
Kansas "bled" before the war in its prelude: battles over slavery.
The "it was about states rights, not slavery" argument is false, because when you ask which state's right was at controversy, it was the right to own slaves.
Since it is possible to tell everything about a person from a single /. post, I'd like to point out that your counting skills are actually quite good for a neo-nazi cannibal soccer mom... who votes Republican.
Actually, Jesus was a Gay, Black, Jew.
Reality has a liberal bias
Yeah, yeah, and "Americans enjoy many freedoms not guaranteed or protected by the constitution". I wish you people (and your apologists) would just hurry up and die.
[Set Cain on fire and steal his lute.]
Nope, Im pretty liberal myself. And I know what a bible thumper is, people who dont think for themselves generaly. You know, when you were a little kid unable to defend yourself from the non-sense of religion, your parents told you its what you believed and since then youve gone on with the warm fuzzy feeling in your stomach. But dont worry, theres hope. I was indoctrinated into christianity to but I managed to free my mind hopefully you can do the same some day and help us to rid the world of the plauge of religion that has doomed the world for hundreds of thousands of years. Then and only then will we have peace among men.
He was.
And John Wayne was a fag. He was, too, you boys. I installed two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood, and he come to the door in a dress.
riding round the world on an old motorcycle
"Oh, and the Fraser Institute is so far right it isn't even on the map - it makes Fox News look fair and balanced"
Compared with the right wing and the left wing, Fox News IS fair and balanced. They represent both sides, and walk down the middle (unlike CNN, which is left-wing, or Limbaugh's ilk: all right-wing).
"Btw, it's kinda strange that such a "superior" system results in lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality"
It results in higher life expectancy for most everyone: the United States medical research and development system leads the world for health improvement.