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FBI Accused of Abusing Criminal Database
Peace protesters were unable to leave the country to speak in Canada because their names had been added to a database of criminals. There's a serious due-process violation here because a listing in this database is equivalent to an "infamous" conviction. "'The FBI's placing of peace activists on an international criminal database is blatant political intimidation of US citizens opposed to Bush administration policies,' says Colonel Wright, who was also Deputy US Ambassador in four countries. 'The Canadian government should certainly not accept this FBI database as the criteria for entering the country... The list is supposed to be for felony and serious misdemeanor offenses. We don't qualify — it's for sex offenders, foreign fugitives, gang violence and terrorist organizations, people who are on parole...'"
How dare you mod e down for calling someone a racist when they are ACTUALLY EXHIBITING THEIR RACISM.
"Nigger", "Spic" and "kike" wouldn't be tolerated, but apparently it's ok to be a racist as long as it's rednecks you're racist against.
FUCK YOU MOD, you disgusting racism supporting piece of shit.
I only go to buffets for the unlimited soft serve.
you know, half-truths
what happened is some people had some convictions, and canada saw that on their files, and wouldn't let them in the country
it doesn't have anything to do with bush or his policies, it doesn't have anything to do with "peace protestors"
but as you can see in posts below, the usual kneejerk idiots are inflating their sense of outrage over further proof of the machinations of the eviiiiil bush
look, bush is a moron, probably the worst president the usa ever had. but if this situation seriously inflames your passions about him, you are bigger moron than he is. what happened would happen under any administration, at any time
furthermore, in a little over a year, he will be gone from the white house. then who will you complain about? you think anything will change?
some of you really need to stop being such obvious propagandized partisan morons
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
There have been a lot of these situations; someone is _accused_ and the media adjudicates the case. See also: a host of Republicans indicted, but never proven to have done anything, yet stepping down due to the party conviction. There was the "cold blooded killing of civilians" in Haditha, the "extreme torture" in AbuGraib. And each of these situations don't come CLOSE to reality, but it plays well on the dinosaur media. Personally I'm sick of hearing who's been _accused_, but wake me when someone's been *proven* guilty of something, aye?
Like the Congressman from Louisiana, William Jefferson (D) who was seen wrangling National Guardsmen to rescue his fridge from Katrina, later accused of storing $90,000 in there. Yet he goes to work every day, keeps voting like nothing happened, and I suppose nothing will.
I know there's a lot of paranoia in the demographic here, and ordinarily I'm keeping a watch along side you. But:
a) There's a very real danger now, as terrorists have-or-will-soon-get a nuclear bomb, and it's not a scientific exercise; it's meant for killing....probably a lot of us, in this audience living in NYC. We have to be watching.
b) I'm worn out from the tired old "Bush lied" and "We're starting a theocracy" panic lines I hear over and over. We're nowhere near that, either.
But it's interesting how, despite the fears of an potential American theocracy (from just a moment of silence or Christmas decorations) that a lot of this crowd forgets the *real* and *existing* theocracy that has us in it's sights. And we're making allowances for them- prayer rugs, permission to leave class 5 times a day, etc.
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"Some opinion pieces, that aren't derived from rigorous and fair thinking, are indeed worthless."
I'd have to agree, but why denigrate yourself like that?
I only go to buffets for the unlimited soft serve.
What an insulting post. But keep at it. People like you and Michael Moore lost the 2004 election for the Democrats. If you try hard enough, you can lose 2008, too.
What an insulting post. But keep at it. People like you and Michael Moore lost the 2004 election for the Democrats. If you try hard enough, you can lose 2008, too.
I'm glad you noticed how insulting it was. It was intended to be. Maybe shithead will actually learn to think. I doubt it though.
It's about time we actually did hold people accountable and make them embarrassed to be that fucking stupid and quit pretending it's ok that they're that dumb and acting like avoiding hurting their feelings is more important than telling the truth and being a good citizen.
Bring back the stocks I say and let's publicly pelt these fucking nitwits with rotten vegetables until the shame is worse than the joy the get from ignorance.
I will lose in 2008, but I've never voted Democrat or Republican.
Neither party has anything positive to offer, but that's pretty irrelevant.
I'm really confused why you think people like myself who think and pay attention were the problem with the Democrats getting elected though. I mean, sure I wouldn't vote for them, but there were plenty of people who did. Sure they were going up against religious hatred, but had they actually stood for anything they might have won. I mean given the unmitigated disaster they were running against I think you're pushing it with that.
"It doesn't matter what definition YOU were using. That was the one given by the one who actually used the word."
So when I define "nigger" as a "rice krispy treat" that makes it ok to say it? OOPS!
You're a moron and I caught you showing it.
"the only thing that is proven is that you're a delusional idiot."
Which should make it doubly embarrassing for you that I caught you saying something so obviously moronic.
You got owned by an "idiot". How does it feel?
I only go to buffets for the unlimited soft serve.