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Senate Fails To Reauthorize Patriot Act Provisions
PostConsumerRecycled writes "CNN is reporting that 'The Senate on Friday rejected attempts to reauthorize several provisions of the USA Patriot Act as infringing too much on Americans' privacy and liberty, dealing a huge defeat to the Bush administration and Republican leaders ... If a compromise is not reached, the 16 Patriot Act provisions expire on December 31.' The story also links to listing of the provisions that will expire."
How about it's a huge defeat for national security? I'm not surprised CNN wrote it this way, but exactly how are we supposed to find Al Qaeda cells in the U.S.? Ask suspected terrorists for permission first before we bug them?
The terrorists aren't going to bomb us because they're too crafty; they're going to bomb us because we're too stupid to stop them.
the usa is a democracy, good gets done in the end after all is said and done
i wonder where all the hysterical twits went who proclaimed the usa a fascist theocracy
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
You forget in the world we live in everything corrupt. The church is full of power hungry child molesters (maybe a little too trollish, but bare with me), we've got to the point where people can communicate on mass, so we learn how to control this mass. We manipulate it to sell crap, whore people and basicly make a society of "us" (the minions) and "them" (people with power).
The church had this power for hundreds of years, so people flocked to it who wanted power. Now these same people have bred through the generations and taught the kids to "be the best, horde money and power". They kept doing it untill this generation where it really did get to an insanely inbalanced level. The imbalance is now so strong they are all but untouchable, so with the mentality they have they're going to do whatever they like and "obviously" they're right, because "might is right" in the society we live in.
These same people have corrupted the churchs ideals. So instead of it being "love thy neighbour" "Untill you're perfect STFU about someone who isn't". It's instead "screw everyone, I'm right and God says the same", these people also happen to be the loudest and the dumbest..
These people encourage others to be "the same", where they forget knowledge and horde money instead. Which breeds idiotic minions.. the numbers of idiots now far outweighs the smart people.. so these rich idiots get twice as much power and an army to manipulate..
So adding everything up (sorry it's a bit of a mess, I'm ill and can't think straight). The corrupt are now in charge, the church over the years has been very corrupt and got to a state where it's not at all like it should be. Society is now suffering the same ignorance and hatred.. they're happy in their ignorance and keep being encouraged to follow it..
So corrupt religion + corrupt ideals = God loves me, he wants me to do what I'm doing.. These people don't know any better, we should pity them really..
I like muppets.
Come 2006, Bin Laden's gonna party like its 1999.
And yet technically, you are insightful, at least according to the definition of the word.
Preach on, brother. Ultraliberals abound on this site, and they tolerate everything... that they agree with.
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Sorry, that's an amusing bit of folklore....no independent verficiation of this alleged quote has ever come forth.
What I find interesting is that it's FAR more likely that Klinton said something quite like this during his tenure....but that's another topic.
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