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Justice Department Censors ACLU Web Site
phr1 writes "According to the Washington Post, the ACLU was forced to remove a paragraph from their online press release, that specified what kind of information FBI agents could request under the Patriot Act that the ACLU has been suing over. "
AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
And it was posted at Score:2 no less.
TROLL!
Get a life. You're just another whiner who has no plans to leave, only to appear concerned and educated. My bet, I'll give 100:1 odds that you never live outside the US, because just like in every other part of your life, you don't follow through. You'd just rather pretend. The ACLU violated a pretty specific court order, this happens all the time. You think they would have taken it out if they thought they weren't in the wrong? Idiot.
I thought I knew all the tricks the trolls use. But this one got me. Son of a bitch. yuck.
- tom -
So, none of the military personnel in that unit that was guarding the prison are Democrats then? Did you check this before making such a boldly impossible to defend claim? All you really know is that the people at the very top are Republican. You have no clue what the party afilliations of the rest of the military structure under them is. In the military, you don't go about advertising your party affiliation any more so than any normal civilian would.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
you have been wanrned!
Did you ever wonder why Slashdot only supports 7-bit ASCII, i.e. no extended ASCII, Unicode or ISO-8859 characters?
Because Slashdot is a wholly American and Patriot website, that's why.
Think about it! Do you want Slashdot to become a forum for terrorists, where they can freely discuss plans for taking away our freedom and killing our brave soldiers through HORRIBLE ACTS OF TERRORISM in their own language and the heathen Arabic script? Unicode, a system that enables terrorists worldwide to plan terrorist actions and communicate through the Internet. Though most try to cover it up, it is no secret to most IT-savvy Americans that Unicode development is partly funded by Al-Qaeda and partly by the French, dictator-supporting government.
There is none of that anti-social trash here. Slashdot supports only AMERICAN, PATRIOTIC CHARACTERS. Eurotrash, look out, because you can't use your fucking umlauts and ~'s here. We saved your sorry asses in World War II -- the least you can do is show some fucking respect and use our alphabet. Slashdot does not support your anti-American characters. 7-bit ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is commonly known as US-ASCII. This speaks for itself. The one and only choice for PATRIOTIC AMERICANS is US-ASCII, the STANDARD CODE for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I'm proud to be an American, and I'm PROUD be a member of this patriotic, American Slashdot community. I am not going to let freedom-hating terrorists plot evil plans on an American-owned, FREE SPEECH website.
Do not believe the terrorist propaganda lies.
Boycott Unicode -- it is a tool of terrorism.
USE ANYTHING OTHER THAN US-ASCII AND THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON.
Unicode and its links to Al-Qaeda
From the article: The second paragraph read: "The provision under challenge allows an FBI agent to write a letter demanding the disclosure of the name, screen names, addresses, e-mail header information, and other sensitive information held by 'electronic communication service providers.' "
Phew, I'm safe! My internet isn't really a connection service for me, I only DOWNLOAD my kiddie pr0n!
Why should I argue rationally with someone being irrational? I'll just mock them instead.
First of all, most military people are conservatives. Hence they are more likely to be Republican than Democract (just like how most artists and scientists are Democrats, or how most in the investment community are Republicans or Libertarians). Granted, in a two party state like USA, the difference between Democrat and Republican is mostly irrelevant (people just vote for a different party for the sake of removing someone from power, rather than because they believe in the party).
Second, most of the senior military administration (the civilian side) ARE Republican. They are appointed/selected/promoted by the goverment. For instance, Donald Rumsfeld is a Republican. Others like Douglas Feith (Undersecretary of Defense), Paul Wolfowitz (#2 in Defense), etc are Republican or appointed by the Republican government. We don't know if these neoconservatives are Republican but they are closer to the Republican Party than to the Democratic Party.
So, if all this is indeed due to a systematic strategy implemented from higher-ups, you can be sure that it has Republican fingerprints all over it. In fact, Rumsfeld has pretty much admitted as much (although not in strong terms). Rumsfeld has claimed that he knew of all these things a long time ago (long before Bush or anyone else saw it) and doesn't think it is torture (contrary to ICRC opinion).
In general, most military personnel are conservatives. Since USA only has one conservative party (not counting minor ones), it would be fair say that most of these guys are Republican. If you don't buy it, check out poll results. During the last election, the so-called "military vote" unanimously went to Bush. This has been the pattern for a while--although as I mentioned earlier, in two party (or one party) states, it can be misleading because people vote for an opposing party just to remove one from power (in general, that doesn't happen though).
Having said all this, I'm not talking about the case when there are major events unfolding (like a real war (current bogus "war" on terrorism doesn't count), switch to another econopolitical system (eg. switch to totalitarian system like fascism), conscription (in theory, conscripted militaries resemble the population makeup), etc). So there are a lot of exceptions. However, right now, I would say most of hte US military is conservative/Republican. The "military vote" will still go to Bush in this year's election (watch the results)...
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Sivaram Velauthapillai
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