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US House Rejects Telecom Amnesty
The US House has just approved a new bill that rejects the retroactive immunity to telecommunication businesses and denies most of the new powers for the US President to spy on citizens without a warrant. "As impressive as the House vote itself was, more impressive still was the floor debate which preceded it. I can't recall ever watching a debate on the floor of either House of Congress that I found even remotely impressive -- until today. One Democrat after the next -- of all stripes -- delivered impassioned, defiant speeches in defense of the rule of law, oversight on presidential eavesdropping, and safeguards on government spying. They swatted away the GOP's fear-mongering claims with the dismissive contempt such tactics deserve, rejecting the principle that has predominated political debate in this country since 9/11: that the threat of the Terrorists means we must live under the rule of an omnipotent President and a dismantled constitutional framework."
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Proposing Things Man: Political parties to ruin your democracy? Loss of rights and freedom?
Washington and Friends: DO NOT WANT! KTHXBYE!
Adams (Quietly): Maaaaybe want loss of rights and freedom.... I can beez king?
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You can't take the sky from me...
Well, the Founding Fathers would have argued that just because something is old, it doesn't mean it is wrong. After all, the Founding Fathers were experts of their time at new stuff, but they implemented a lot of old stuff anyway.
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The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia