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Justice Department Censors ACLU Web Site

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-only-getting-wierder dept.

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. "

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  1. I don't suppose... by praedor · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That anyone managed to snag a copy before it was removed? Perhaps a link to a cache image? Preferably something that isn't a link to Goatsx.

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    In Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq as they increasingly merge the two in America.
  2. The Patriot Act was passed... by zogger · · Score: 1, Redundant
    ..., after the events of 9-11, the new reichstag fire,and in essence, it is not much different from the "enabling act". It was passed under the clear threat-the stick part of the traditional carrot and the stick- of harm to the various politicians, notably by anthrax sent through the mail by some no questions asked any-order-followed mercenary goons to various polticians, and to the news media, to scare them into compliance,and subsequentially terrorizing washington and the rest of the US into the bargain. What a deal-not.. That was just obvious as all get out. Let's don't forget little details like that. The goons sure don't,they love the details, and then they count on short term memories and misdirections, they like to change the subject when the going gets embarassing for them.

    Datum 2. If you watch politics for enough decades, you will *notice* it doesn't really matter which R or D is in the white house, or controls congress, they play good cop/ bad cop back and forth with their various constituencies, but you always get more or less the same results, more whopper government, more bogus laws, more freedoms stripped, higher taxes, more debt,more reallystrange foreign wars that you find out years later were based on lies and were scam wars,and more destruction of the backbone of the US, the productive middle class. Again, pretty obvious. When people say they voted for their idea of the lesser of two evils, they are admitting to being scared, tricked, or just didn't really care enough to NOT vote for one of those evils. Pitiful really. they didn't want to "waste their vote", even though the only 'wasted' vote is one not cast.

    Of course, none of that matters now because...

    #3 the elections are now officially hijacked, what little remnants of honest voting used to exist are now gone, you'll "elect" who THEY want to be in there, and THOSE guys get told what to do from international very large power and money interests. We were WARNED this would happen, and we ignored it.

    #4 the only rational plan is something completely & radically different from "politics as we know it", because the old ways of doing things WILL GIVE YOU THE SAME OLD WAYS. IT ALWAYS HAPPENS. It CAN'T give you anything BUT that, it's basic math. NOTHING will change, you will always get the same results if you copy what you just did.