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Significant FBI Abuses of the Patriot Act
Noksagt writes "The Washington Post is reporting that recently discovered documents indicate serious intelligence violations by the FBI. This comes just months after the U.S. House voted to extend the Patriot Act, EPIC (the Electronic Privacy Information Center) has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act of thirteen cases of possible misconduct in intelligence investigations. The case numbering suggests that there were at least 153 investigations of misconduct at the FBI in 2003 alone."
Wow big fscking surprise...fscking disgraceful. I can't wait until the end of next year when I move out of the US to go to get my masters in Dresdin Germany - no more of this crap. Maybe I'll stay there for a few extra years (or decades)
1. As opposed to a lot of corporate CEOs that seem to know key members of the Bush administration who are currently $300 billion richer?
:)
2. Fission power does have some drawbacks; eventually, there is some volume of waste that has to be disposed of. If the damn environmentalists would let us reprocess it, that volume would shrink 95%, but even that needs to be disposed of.
3. Because (forbidding a Ben Bova-esqe future) fusion reactors can't melt down (If anything happens to a number of very difficult-to-maintain conditions, the reaction stops dead in milliseconds) and generate no radioactive waste. Put the helium in tanks and send it to Greenpeace parties and even they'll get behind it!
> Sense of humor you have not.
that's because it wasn't funny. not even slightly amusing.
btw - grammar lacking you yoda.
Intereasting, and I always thought George Bush was a brain-dead idiot.
We cannot judge persons.
That pretty much kills it for me right there. If you're arguing from a standpoint where no number of immoral actions make an immoral person, you're pretty much pushing for a system of relativistic ethics...Otherwise known as a worthless ethical system...Liberal weenies push for relativisitic ethics all the time.
I would say the problem with Bush is not that he's a good or bad person, I would say that he tends to actions that are legally defensible and morally indefensible. Shift the tax burden off the rich, onto the poor, go to war under false pretenses, ignore catastrophes until his polls suffer, then pass out rebuilding contracts to his cronies.
All of this suggests to me that he lacks compassion, empathy, and conscience, and that he has been allowed to give voice to these tendencies by the power of his office. Power has not corrupted, but it has allowed him to give voice to his worst tendencies, and that is more than bad enough.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
I even promise to say "thank you" as soon as you figure out how to do it. (Breaking a promise to a foe is also one of life's little pleasures.)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.