StrangerThan
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You know what you sound like, Owner? Republicans defending the Patriot Act under Bush. I don't know how many times I heard some simpleton shit like, well, if I don't commit a crime, I have nothing to worry about!
Of course, the same Democrats who railed against it then, are reveling in undulating ecstasy now that it is administered by Obama - proving beyond any reasonable doubt that their righteous rage was neither righteous nor anger based upon an attack on freedoms, but rather encapsulated by the hatred of Bush.
It's not nervous laughter you sense. It is belly aching, can't catch your breath laughter. I should sign up today and talk about stupid republican cunts, shouldn't I? I mean fuck, if we're going to look at ugly sides, let's pull up rocks that have donkeys on them as well as those with elephants. Hell, a good msnbc diatribe could provide hours of posting glamour on.. we need theme music.. .da da dummm, Attack Watch.
I can't believe you're defending this bullshit. If it had risen from the other side, you'd be screaming. Then again, you probably screamed at the Patriot Act didn't you?
Just for you 59, I have the first candidate you can report. It's called the American Civil Liberties Union. Here are some excerpts
Torture and extraordinary rendition are no longer officially condoned. But most other policies—indefinite detention, targeted killing, trial by military commissions, warrantless surveillance, and racial profiling—remain core elements of our national security strategy today.
Thus has President Obama claimed the unchecked authority to use lethal force against a United States citizen, far from any battlefield, on the basis of his own unilateral determination that the citizen poses a threat to the nation. And thus has Congress passed laws intended to detain prisoners at Guantanamo indefinitely, even though the prison is a blight on our nation’s conscience and history and a recruiting tool for our enemies.
But President Obama’s pledge to close Guantanamo was undermined by his own May 2009 announcement of a policy enshrining at Guantanamo the principle of indefinite military detention without charge or trial.
With the Obama administration’s so-called “targeted killing” program, there is no ability to correct what can be lethal errors.
No national security policy raises a graver threat to human rights and the international rule of law than targeted killing, because the government claims the unchecked authority to impose an extrajudicial death sentence on people—including U.S. citizens—located far from any battlefield.
In Afghanistan, where the Obama administration has continued the Bush administration’s policy of detaining individuals for years without charge or trial based on secret evidence and without access to a lawyer, our NATO allies refuse to transfer captives to U.S. custody.
Using Patriot Act authority, the Bush Administration started—and the Obama Administration has continued—to conduct wholesale “preventive” surveillance of innocent Americans without judicial review.
The Obama administration, like the Bush administration before it, has used excessive secrecy to hide possibly unconstitutional surveillance. Two members of Congress have been ringing alarm bells about the government’s use of Patriot Act authorities, urging additional congressional oversight—to no avail. Hobbled by executive claims of secrecy, Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have nevertheless warned their colleagues that the government is operating under a “reinterpretation” of the Patriot Act that is so broad that the public will be stunned and angered by its scope, and that the executive branch is engaging in dragnet surveillance in which “innocent Americans are getting swept up.”
Full text here - http://www.aclu.org/national-security/report-call-courage-reclaiming-our-liberties-ten-years-after-911 if you want to read it for more juicy tidbits to report.
The laughter you hear is the correct response. What I will tell you and every other dimwit democrat is that this kind of bullshit calls into question the left's stance on liberty and freedom more than it achieves whatever vaunted purpose it proclaims to defend. But hey, keep snickering and defending what amounts to brown shirt tactics. After all, it's the right party - this time.
< Message edited by StrangerThan -- 9/14/2011 11:43:31 PM >
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