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Part of Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional
Adam9 writes "According to Yahoo/AP, a federal judge has declared unconstitutional a portion of the USA Patriot Act that bars giving expert advice or assistance to groups designated foreign terrorist organizations. The ruling marks the first court decision to declare a part of the post-Sept. 11 anti-terrorism statute unconstitutional, said David Cole, a Georgetown University law professor who argued the case on behalf of the Humanitarian Law Project."
the whole damned thing is unconstitutional. anyone who voted for it should be considered a traitor, shot, hung, drawn, and quartered on the National Mall. Fuck the federales.
This is the least insightful thing I think I've ever seen modded Insightful.
Wars, including the fight against terrorism, aren't about fighting "violence". They are about one side defeating the other side.
This might astonish you, but some people can read 342 page documents. Some people can even get all the way through texts that are much longer! Go to one of these places called "book stores" and you will see many such amazing individuals, reading 400 page long tomes for entertainment! The same goes for these other places you've obviously never been but may have heard of, called "libraries."
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Aparently someone didn't see the news.
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The Finical Times a bastion of impartial financial news describes the Bush administration's economic policy as akin to a teenager with his parents Ferrari. To paraphrase the Bush admin was given the highest performing economy in history and seems determined to drive it beyond the performance envelope and into a tree, despite the disaproving head shakes of the adults on the side of the road.
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagena
As to productivity quip, you'd be productive too if you thought that you were going to loose your job despite the fact that your compnay is making money again.
Neoconservative Answer: Damn wife and kids must have been disloyal, attracting a thug like that. Suspicion of their disloyalty is the best proof. BANG, BANG, BANG. They won't do that again. Before things die down, let's see if there are any more thugs I can sell weapons to.
Please, before you start bashing all conservatives on this board think about how many good conservatives there are on slashdot and that we don't like being treated as second class citizens.
Have the decency to read thoughtfully before you claim I bash good conservatives. The poster referred to conservatives. I referred to NEOconservatives. The distinction has been quite clear for anyone willing to make a distinction in my reponse and in national debate, except for neoconservatives who try to claim to be reepresenting all conservatives.
Those in power, who are neoconservatives, are clearly behaving like facists, more likely to imprision you without a trial, shoot first and ask questions later, arm the next dictator and trying to drag the rest of the conservatives along with them.
I was an active conservative Republican for 20 years until the recent behavior of Bush and company makes me so deeply ashamed to be associated with them, that I have become completely unaffiliated. I did not change, but they changed the party. I remain a proud conservative. Good neoconservative, on the other hand, is in my book an oxymoron.