"Meanwhile, a simple note from PayPal indicating that a payment had been made, which asked for no personal information, was described as a fraud by 20 percent of those studied."
These people might have just thought they were clever. "Say, I didn't buy anything through PayPal..."
If the USA is so bad, why don't you either leave or take up arms against this goverment that is so terribly evil?
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Take up arms? You don't seem to know what it's like to live where government officials and/or wingnuts consider dissent treason and most others just consider it unpatriotic or un-American. Slamming Bush will NOT earn you anything but disrespect in many places and influential people like Britney Spears are of the opinion that we should do whatever our president says without question.
Finally this is changing and the media is snapping out of it, but many in the government are desperate to silence that movement, expand the power of the executive, and continue blatantly ignoring their responsibility to checks and balances. If Bush has his way, he will appoint 3-4 conservative judges and effectively rob the Supreme Court of its entire purpose, he will now name an ideologue as a CIA chief instead of someone who actually knows what the fuck is going on, the Justice Department will continute writing Bush saying he can order torture, and looky here in Florida, there's about a few THOUSAND registered black Democrats incorrectly barred from voting in the upcoming election. It took "liberal" CNN to sue for the list to get it out in the open.
That's undeniably questionable, even if you accept that barring released felons from voting isn't a dumb law. In this case, it was passed by Jeb Bush conveniently just in time to prepare a secret list for the 2000 election which I'm sure was equally filled with black Democrats. Who needs Diebold when your bro in a swing state can arbitrarily throw people out of the voting booth from a secret list?
I could go on and on for paragraphs, and not even touch on what the article is about. The Patriot Act is already bad enough, and some Congressmen want a Patriot Act II and a Patriot Act IX. On a routine basis, people have been sitting in jail cells indefinately with virtually no if any contact to lawyers (though hopefully not much longer thanks to a Supreme Court decision). For a long time "taking up arms" seemed liable to get you thrown into Guantanamo Bay without an ID number and hidden from the Red Cross.
Or maybe,
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As for leaving the country, I think I'll try my hand at voting first.
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These people might have just thought they were clever. "Say, I didn't buy anything through PayPal..."
If the USA is so bad, why don't you either leave or take up arms against this goverment that is so terribly evil?
<slant>
Take up arms? You don't seem to know what it's like to live where government officials and/or wingnuts consider dissent treason and most others just consider it unpatriotic or un-American. Slamming Bush will NOT earn you anything but disrespect in many places and influential people like Britney Spears are of the opinion that we should do whatever our president says without question.
Finally this is changing and the media is snapping out of it, but many in the government are desperate to silence that movement, expand the power of the executive, and continue blatantly ignoring their responsibility to checks and balances. If Bush has his way, he will appoint 3-4 conservative judges and effectively rob the Supreme Court of its entire purpose, he will now name an ideologue as a CIA chief instead of someone who actually knows what the fuck is going on, the Justice Department will continute writing Bush saying he can order torture, and looky here in Florida, there's about a few THOUSAND registered black Democrats incorrectly barred from voting in the upcoming election. It took "liberal" CNN to sue for the list to get it out in the open.
That's undeniably questionable, even if you accept that barring released felons from voting isn't a dumb law. In this case, it was passed by Jeb Bush conveniently just in time to prepare a secret list for the 2000 election which I'm sure was equally filled with black Democrats. Who needs Diebold when your bro in a swing state can arbitrarily throw people out of the voting booth from a secret list?
I could go on and on for paragraphs, and not even touch on what the article is about. The Patriot Act is already bad enough, and some Congressmen want a Patriot Act II and a Patriot Act IX. On a routine basis, people have been sitting in jail cells indefinately with virtually no if any contact to lawyers (though hopefully not much longer thanks to a Supreme Court decision). For a long time "taking up arms" seemed liable to get you thrown into Guantanamo Bay without an ID number and hidden from the Red Cross.
Or maybe, </slant>
As for leaving the country, I think I'll try my hand at voting first.