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Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms
The Bush administration and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are poised to square off in front of a San Francisco federal judge Tuesday to litigate the constitutionality of legislation immunizing the nation's telecoms from lawsuits accusing them of helping the government spy on Americans without warrants. "'The legislation is an attempt to give the president the authority to terminate claims that the president has violated the people's Fourth Amendment rights,' the EFF's [Cindy] Cohn says. 'You can't do that.'"
Interesting timing for this now that we've learned that the gunmen in Mumbai used Blackberries to communicate. I'm sure no one violated their rights by eavesdropping on their communications.
Seen no ballot boxing, jury boxing or ammo boxing by NRA types. How far do liberties have to be eroded before you kick into another gear? With the worst president in history - both popularity and in terms of liberty - you're still on the soap box, so to think you'd ever go as far as the ammo box is just the beer talking. Face it, you're never going to need that gun for the cause of liberty.
Again I call your bluff!
I see good reason for having a well armed, but well trained and regulated, body of gun owners - like the Swiss.
What is bullshit is a bunch of untrained, unregulated couch cowboys that claim to need their weapons for freedom but really do nothing apart from subscribing to Soldier of Fortune magazine and lube their dicks with cammo paint.
And yes, I have owned and used guns and been in the military.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is the most overturned Federal jurisdiction. They might win at the district level and appellate levels but a case like this would definitely be granted cert to the Supreme Court.
I'm not sure why you want to change the subject to something about bathrooms. But changing the subject doesn't seem to take terrorism seriously. Terrorism is serious.