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Reverse Robocall Turns Tables On Politicians
jfruhlinger writes "One of the great banes of election season is that any politician can shell out a few pennies per voter and phone-spam thousands of people who'd rather not hear a recorded pitch. But turnabout's fair play, and now a service called reverse robocall will deliver your recorded message to elected officials as often as you'd like for a nominal fee. If there's a representative you'd like to call repeatedly, check them out."
Whoever modded the above Flamebait is sadly, no, make that tragically out of touch with what is going on in the US today. The OP's statement is feasible based on just 2 items that came out of the government this week. Worst part? It would be legal!
The Obama government (whom I supported in 2008) is turning out to be one scary piece of work.
To the modder: please don't ever vote - your ignorance is a danger to the country.
Let me get this straight. You don't think a "politician" would feel "threatened" by a Robodialer enough to put the person on a "Terrorist Watch List" or something? When we can kill a US Citizen with a Military Strike without so much a trial, lawyer or otherwise, you don't think that can translate to killing anyone for anything at any time?
Yes, I'm arguing Slippery Slope, but the fact is, I would NEVER have considered that was even possible a few short years ago. And since it is Obama and not GWB doing it, he gets a pass from the Liberal Establishment Media and no "Obama is a Murderer" signs in front of his vacation home in ... where is he this week.. Ah Yes .. Hawaii.
Where are the protests? IF that was GWB, the left would be raising hell over what has come out of the White House in the last week, because the Obama Administration basically said "We don't need no stinken courts" for such actions.This shit is pretty scary when you realize what they are really saying.
And all it takes is for some rotting corpse of a politician to feel threatened to get the ball rolling. BTW, Nancy Pelosi looks like she is perpetually terrified, so I wouldn't be surprised if it she was the first.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.