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Bush Claims Mail Can Be Opened Without Warrant
don_combatant writes to note that President Bush claimed new powers to search US mail without a warrant. He made this claim in a "signing statement" at the time he signed a postal overhaul bill into law on December 20. The signing statement directly contradicts part of the bill he signed, which explicitly reinforces protections of first-class mail from searches without a court's approval. According to the article, "A top Senate Intelligence Committee aide promised a review of Bush's move."
Can't we impeach the bastard yet? All nixon did was spy on his political opponents. All Clinton did was lie about sex. This signing statement bullshit is the one of the biggest threats to the American people of the last 300 years. He's ignoring the constitution, overpowering the congress, and extending government power at the expense of civil liberties all with one giant, misguided stone.
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Yes, it's now undeniable that fascist sleepwalking Republicans like you can't tell the difference between monarchial "signing statements" that contradict the explicit law passed by your own outgoing Republican Congress, and some kind of theoretical rationalization for them.
If Bush signed a law saying that in some kind of "emergency" (defined however he chooses at the moment) he would execute everyone who didn't vote for every Republican ever offered them, I suppose you'd find a way to shrug it off. Until they came for you.
Of course, any suggestion of what this means will be met with your insistence that "it's all hypothetical". Because you don't understand that a just government is a system of laws, not just people to whom we give power and hope for the best. You live in a purely hypothetical world of your own creation. Built in lies and denial of the endless list of real abuse and damage you're stil promoting every chance you get.
Stop your insane partisan chuckleheading for a second and stare at your post. Notice how it treats Bush like a benevolent dictator we should trust until the moment when we cannot. I don't really care whether you're proud of yourself, because you slaves are an endangered species. But out of simple respect for a member of my species, I'm offering you one more chance to pretend that you're human, and that you can scrape together some dignity. Blow it at your own peril.
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wars of aggression
You read too many bumper stickers. I there has yet to be a war of pacifism. Your rhetoric is cheap, but telling.
So I guess freedom and liberty were all just inertial effects we can thank the founders for. They're certainly gone now.
Have the gestapo been buy to arrest you yet? No? Then your comment is obviously dead wrong.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
"Breaking news at the White House
Tommorow, Bush will claim the sky is in fact - purple. Rumors also suggest he may claim 'nuclear' is correctly spelled as 'nucular.' Further reports as they are made available."
Now why was this modded Flamebait? I'm sure some intelligent, logical, reasonable and level-headed reply will follow and answer this question.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act!" -- George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
You are, of course, absolutely right that the left can be equally as idiotic as the right. Probably for many of the same reasons. I used to believe differently, but painful experience has taught me the truth.
Only if, by 'the left', you mean some crazy-ass professor at some California college or some guy on some blog somewhere or Joe Liberman. The actual left is not idiotic at all. (Parts of the Democratic party itself are, but they are mainly idiotic in how they keep promoting the same losing stragities.)
OTOH, the right hold up quite idiotic people, like Ann Coulter.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?