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High Court Trims Whistleblower Rights
iminplaya writes "In yet another blow against free speech rights, the Supreme Court decided that government employees who report wrongdoing do not enjoy 1st Amendment rights while on the job. From the article 'The Supreme Court scaled back protections for government workers who blow the whistle on official misconduct Tuesday, a 5-4 decision in which new Justice Samuel Alito cast the deciding vote [...] The ruling was perhaps the clearest sign yet of the Supreme Court's shift with the departure of moderate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the arrival of Alito. [...] Stephen Kohn, chairman of the National Whistleblower Center, said: "The ruling is a victory for every crooked politician in the United States."'"
Promote lies in schools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design
I remember right after 9/11, Bush said "we can't let the terrorists change our way of life". Well, thanks to Bush, people no longer live the same as they did "pre 911".
Well, I don't live in the USA, so my point of view may be different than yours... but from what I see, you do have quite a cult of the state.
Granted, I only infer that from what I saw in your films and series, but still... from American History you teach to immigrants onwards... kids reciting the Gettysburg Address and whatnot... statism propaganda all the way. To my ears at least, and I speak as someone living in a former-so-called-communist country. I've heard it all.
The recent political moves also indicate that the state is central: limiting civil rights in order to "protect the people from terrorism" sounds quite like the propaganda of a regime I can't mention without invoking Godwin's Law... damn, done it again!
Ignore this signature. By order.
What's sad is that it's hard to recognize the irony because so many people would make the same argument seriously.
Cheers.
So this means that the Supreme Court, which was our last hope of defense against the insanity of this administration, is now firmly in the administration's pocket.
BushCo now owns all 3 branches of government. That whirring noise would be the founding fathers spinning in their graves.
End of lesson. You may press the button.
"If the Democrats courted instead of demonizing us, they'd have the Whitehouse and Congress."
Well actually people like you are why we back abortion. We were hoping all the barefoot, ignorant, bible thumpers who birth people like you would opt for abortion if it was cheap, safe and easy so we wouldn't have to put up with people like you for a lifetime, and even worse you reproduce and teach your kids to think like you so we will never be rid of your kind. I pity the poor little devils having you for a dad.
You see we don't want to court your vote or give you an alternative you like. We dislike everything you stand for so anyone you like is the last person on earth we want to get elected (ref. George W. Bush).
Unfortunately all the con men who stand at the pulpit every Sunday saw through the plan which is why they are so rabidly against abortion and contraception. The pro life preachers and popes really don't give a damn about the sanctity of life, they just want more butts in the seats because it translates in to more bucks in the plate. They want every white, trailer trash couple to have ten kids that they can't afford to properly raise or educate as long as they are in church every Sunday and you are putting their college fund in the collection plate.
So the abortion plan backfired. All the intelligent, well educated enlightened people are using contraception and having abortions so they only have one or two kids which they go all out to raise properly. All the morons who really believe the world is actually only 6,000 years old and that they can trace their begats back to Adam and Eve aren't getting abortions and are having ten kids who are so badly raised and educated they should qualify as a weapon of mass destruction. Its kind of selective breeding in reverse. The human race is rapidly, selectively breeding itself back in to the dark ages. The world is gonna be a wonderful place when scientists are persecuted by the church and burned at the stake for heresy(i.e. pointing out that our sacred fossil fuels are causing global warming and will eventually require a Noah Jr. to save us).
Plan B which hasn't worked so well either was for us to pretend like we are adamant supporters of gun control so you would all immediately rush out and buy as many guns as you could possibly afford, with your minimum wage job and after you've taken out your Budweiser allotment for the week, just to spite us. We were then hoping you would manage to accidentally shoot yourselves or the barefoot wife you beat twice a week would use one to put you out of our misery.
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