You are EXACTLY right, of course, they are indeed breaking, and promoting the breaking of, federal law. That is emminently clear from that video. Case closed. Period! Any and all posters who take issue with you are both illiterate AND cognitively impaired.
Sadly, I once was skeptical of those polls proclaiming Americans to be stupid and ignorant....no more!
Odd, suv4x4, I completely agree with everything you said excepting:
I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories...
I am a fan of conspiracy theories - as I do not believe in fairy tales and am not cognitively impaired. Therefore, when everyone aboard those four planes on 9/11/01 are killed - I know enough to research the passengers' backgrounds and draw logical conclusions - sad to say, something which has become rather unAmerican.....
Also, I am aware enough to have looked at that next-day satellite photo of the Pentagon (09/12/01) and have noted contradictory evidence to the official story, and know enough to keep current on the released black box data on Flight 77 (video here)
A thousand apologies to you and Rep. Paul - you can't blame me for getting him confused with ALL those other Republican draft-dodgers from Texas, though.
Now John Boehner's supposed US Navy service, somehow I don't think making it half-way through Navy boot camp before getting kicked out for chronic bedwetting constitutes actual military service......
You have to keep all those many Unitary Executive signing statements Bush included along with every congressional bill he signed - the first time in US history a president signed a bill stating unequivocally he was exempt - clearly unconstitutional - as has everything else been which Bush has done.....
The serious answer to your question, hey!, is here.
The author, Iain Banks, thought about this some time ago and has written some truly excellent sci-fi with these questions in the background: The Player of Games, Excession, and The State of the Art.
Actually, it's TIA, which accounts for a considerable portion of that 70%. When you have everything from OnStar, Pay-Per-View companies and LexisNexis to First Data giving up all the data to the federal government entites ---- you really do possess Total Information.....so much for that Freedom of Information Act.....
Oh man, Original Replica, you're not one of those conspiracy theorists that believe just because the Busheviks are funding and supporting that terrorist group in Iran, the MEK, on their bloody rampage, and that other terrorist bunch in Pakinstan in their bloody strikes into Iran, and that smaller terrorist Sunni Muslim group in Lebanon to foment problems and kill Palestinians, and that other group in Afghanistan, and that guerrilla army in Columbia to try to overthrow the democratically-elected Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez, and those thirty-some other terrorist operations around the planet, that the USA has any culpability whatsoever in the world's troubles???
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If Sept. 11 was done by "real terrorists" why hasn't anyone in the Bush Administration ever appeared concerned with apprehending them????
Instead, he's killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis? Made hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions more, homeless in Iraq and surrounding Arab countries where they have fled to.
He refused to convene any type of investigative commission, until finally, he was forced to - and even then he underfunded them and refused to allow them sub peona powers.
And when he spoke before them with his handler Cheney, he refused to testify under oath. Wow, but I'm sure you know best, huh???
I'll bet you're in the crowd that believes torture works? If so, then WTF is Osama???? Or at least, WTF is he hiding out at??? Guess all that torture doesn't work after all, especially not on innocents.....
[Commonly heard phrase in the USA: "I'm a Christian, let's nuke Iran!"]
Wow, nurb432, you are sooooo right. Those dirty Bush bashers, after all, what other outstanding presidency has brought the American people the state of affairs where the major topics of discourse are:
torture, illegal wiretapping and spying on the citizenry, and election fraud???
Regarding NSA and "underfunding" - a really crucial point us conspiracy nuts (i.e., informed and educated Americans who've taken - and passed - probability math) like to bring up:
Immediately after the 9/11/01 attacks, the then-NSA directer, General Hayden (now CIA director), went before the US Congress requesting emergency funds. What were the top two expenditures of said funds? (This is public domain information and easily verifiable.)
(1) More security guards, and
(2) Hiring more polygraph examiners (that's lie detector experts, folks).
Does that really sound like they were involved in some sort of "war on terror" or that political house-cleaning was the order of the day.....
You might do considerably more reading of history, chum! In all likelihood, if those rogue elements of the CIA had not whacked JFK, he and Kruschev might very well have put a major slowdown, or possibly even a complete halt, to the Cold War - please remember, JFK was about to have a drawdown of the advisors in Vietnam (total when he was in office: 16,000 - originally put there by Eisenhower before him), while after his assassination, 500,000 troops were eventually taking part in Vietnam. Many other items could be cited as well.....
..even the Cato's support the existence of the national security apparatus which has illegally and consistently pushed this country to the right..
Let's get something clear: The Cato Institute has been primarily (since its inception) funded by the largest privately-owned energy company in North America, Koch Industries, which also funds the Manhattan Institute and other neocon (under the guise of libertariansim) phoney "think tanks."
Sadly, given the recent dramatic announcement of the falling production of Mexican oil (check latest Pemex stats), the entire Mexican population will one day be living in the remaining northern part of the Americas.
Outstanding point. Sometime in the last year, the publisher of the Washington Monthly (CIA-funded publication) was described in the news as dying from a boating accident.
His body was found weighed down in the ocean by an anchor with a shotgun blast to his head --- some "boating accident."
Well, Roger Staubach was supposed to be intelligent, or the other hand, anyone who has ever spoken at length with former basketball pro Bill Bradley (and oddly enough - given his SAT scores and other indicators, a Rhodes Scholar) would not accuse him of being particularly intelligent, in fact, I was shocked by how utterly ignorant he was. (Sorry, Blll....)
If Dan Marino was intelligent, he would have been advertising something far more profitable than those stupid gloves (and him a Miami QB, no less).
That's very funny (I did to laugh). But remember, Gates spent most of his adult working life with the CIA, he didn't use e-mail because he was busy killing people.....
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Now....if only they'd find that Roswell Crater!!!!!
Sadly, I once was skeptical of those polls proclaiming Americans to be stupid and ignorant....no more!
I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories...
I am a fan of conspiracy theories - as I do not believe in fairy tales and am not cognitively impaired. Therefore, when everyone aboard those four planes on 9/11/01 are killed - I know enough to research the passengers' backgrounds and draw logical conclusions - sad to say, something which has become rather unAmerican.....
Also, I am aware enough to have looked at that next-day satellite photo of the Pentagon (09/12/01) and have noted contradictory evidence to the official story, and know enough to keep current on the released black box data on Flight 77 (video here)
How did those Giant Penguins end up in North America?? Specifically, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a big white house????
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." Edward R. Murrow
Now John Boehner's supposed US Navy service, somehow I don't think making it half-way through Navy boot camp before getting kicked out for chronic bedwetting constitutes actual military service......
You have to keep all those many Unitary Executive signing statements Bush included along with every congressional bill he signed - the first time in US history a president signed a bill stating unequivocally he was exempt - clearly unconstitutional - as has everything else been which Bush has done.....
The author, Iain Banks, thought about this some time ago and has written some truly excellent sci-fi with these questions in the background: The Player of Games, Excession, and The State of the Art.
Ummm.....Robotman???
Actually, it's TIA, which accounts for a considerable portion of that 70%. When you have everything from OnStar, Pay-Per-View companies and LexisNexis to First Data giving up all the data to the federal government entites ---- you really do possess Total Information.....so much for that Freedom of Information Act.....
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Instead, he's killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis? Made hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions more, homeless in Iraq and surrounding Arab countries where they have fled to.
He refused to convene any type of investigative commission, until finally, he was forced to - and even then he underfunded them and refused to allow them sub peona powers.
And when he spoke before them with his handler Cheney, he refused to testify under oath. Wow, but I'm sure you know best, huh???
I'll bet you're in the crowd that believes torture works? If so, then WTF is Osama???? Or at least, WTF is he hiding out at??? Guess all that torture doesn't work after all, especially not on innocents.....
[Commonly heard phrase in the USA: "I'm a Christian, let's nuke Iran!"]
Or analysts of any kind??? Thanks for correcting me, dood, you should have been DOI.....
torture, illegal wiretapping and spying on the citizenry, and election fraud???
Immediately after the 9/11/01 attacks, the then-NSA directer, General Hayden (now CIA director), went before the US Congress requesting emergency funds. What were the top two expenditures of said funds? (This is public domain information and easily verifiable.)
(1) More security guards, and
(2) Hiring more polygraph examiners (that's lie detector experts, folks).
Does that really sound like they were involved in some sort of "war on terror" or that political house-cleaning was the order of the day.....
You might do considerably more reading of history, chum! In all likelihood, if those rogue elements of the CIA had not whacked JFK, he and Kruschev might very well have put a major slowdown, or possibly even a complete halt, to the Cold War - please remember, JFK was about to have a drawdown of the advisors in Vietnam (total when he was in office: 16,000 - originally put there by Eisenhower before him), while after his assassination, 500,000 troops were eventually taking part in Vietnam. Many other items could be cited as well.....
Ron Paul???? Oh..yeah, he's that other draft-dodger from Texas.
Let's get something clear: The Cato Institute has been primarily (since its inception) funded by the largest privately-owned energy company in North America, Koch Industries, which also funds the Manhattan Institute and other neocon (under the guise of libertariansim) phoney "think tanks."
Sadly, given the recent dramatic announcement of the falling production of Mexican oil (check latest Pemex stats), the entire Mexican population will one day be living in the remaining northern part of the Americas.
His body was found weighed down in the ocean by an anchor with a shotgun blast to his head --- some "boating accident."
That's right...take the easy way out and Blame Canada!
And this guy Bush is supposed to be the firsborn son, un-frigging-believable!!!! (Please refer to later article on IQ and firstborns.)
If Dan Marino was intelligent, he would have been advertising something far more profitable than those stupid gloves (and him a Miami QB, no less).
That's very funny (I did to laugh). But remember, Gates spent most of his adult working life with the CIA, he didn't use e-mail because he was busy killing people.....
Hate to shock you, dood, but at Gates' level he has others pick up the phone for him and dial the number, and carry the numbers, and.....
[We don't need the PATRIOT Act, we need to act like patriots.]