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I've talked a bunch about the FISA amendments these past few months and my words haven't been complimentary, I've said that it's a huge blow for civil liberties and it compromises the rule of law. I've shouted from the rooftop of my blog that it is bad bad bad bad bad. An evil tool created by and...
Coming soon to a secret court near you. Secret officials will present secret evidence that can include your secrets if they can be tapped on phone or copies from a computer. And they can. And, apparently, that's the new U.S. "security act." ** Even without the law, your secrets would never be safe...
Here's what I don't get... whenever someone steps in front of a camera and says that maybe guns are weapons and gun owners should be held accountable for that, every GOP member and their dog hops onto their soap-box and starts screaming about their Constitutional Rights... but whenever other aspects...
The War on Terror. Read those words; The. War. On. Terror. Each word has a blunt finality about it, this is not A War on Terror, it is not The Struggle Against Terror, and it is not The War on Extremists or weapon wielding maniacs, or the policy to protect people. It is simply The War on Terror and...
By way of disclosure, I am something of a Civil Liberties fanatic, and am firmly convinced that Obama did the wrong thing on retroactive immunity and am angry about that. Also, I haven't trusted George W. Bush since the first 10 secs I saw him speaking. He reminded me of the arrogant lying bullies...
Ever since Congress passed the FISA Amendment Act of 2008, I've been trying to figure out what I want to say about it. Several times over the last few days, I've opened a new post and stared at the white space without typing a word. Normally, I'm not short on things to say, but thinking about the...
Interview with Walter Block. The Mises Institute uploaded an mp3 interview with Dr. Block: "Economics of Oil, Hurricane Katrina, and the Real Estate Bubble." Listen Here. Interview with James Bovard. At Anti-War Radio, Mr. Bovard "discusses the outrageous new FISA amendments, relative criminality of...
I'm a kid, I identify myself as a kid in the circles I travel in because my mentality is one of youth. It's not about childish things that I speak of, but of enthusiasm and drive and trying to succeed. Youth drives people, experience maintains them, some say that it's wasted on the young but I don't...
I'm not sure how many people in the States here are aware, but the FISA bill was signed into law yesterday. Forty five minutes later, the ACLU filed a suit to get it overturned. So there's a bit of a silver lining there. I'm depressed that it passed with an overwhelming majority, and I'm depressed...
"When it comes to picking our next president, I can't decide if I prefer the smooth-talking, inspirational candidate who promises to give my money to people who don't work as hard as I do, or the old, short, ugly, angry guy with one good arm who graduated at the bottom of his class and somehow...
I am so upset right now. It seems that congress has bent to the will of the most unpopular president EVER and stripped the country of some of the most basic rights to privacy that all Americans have enjoyed since the founding of this nation. FISA is now through congress and is going to be signed by...
Today the rule of law, the checks and balances and the rights reserved in the Bill of Rights were damaged as the FISA act was once again altered and retroactive immunity was authorized for law breaking telecoms. A lot has been written about this. I will not add to that. Instead, I thought I would...
Go ahead, guys and gals. Push back from the computer and road trip to tip toe through cow pie and talk FISA with farmers. Pack a lunch because you're going to be doing a whole lot of back plotting there on the back forty. Spend some four buck plus gas to get ex-burbed and exhaust the downside of...
A few more days til I go home for a week so I'm catching up on paperwork. It's not fair to leave paperwork for my relief people, even though those people never know what to do with themselves on this job. I tell you, no one can dog-fuck like me, I'm pretty sure there'd be an award recognizing my...
“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security” Benjamin Franklin “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” Benjamin Franklin (video is from yesterday Tuesday, July 08, 2008) Congress votes...
This video is dedicated to the First and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution and a special shout out to the United States Bill of Rights. The FISA Amendments Passed. FISA Amendments Act Basics 1. The law retroactively legalizes a massive electronic operation to spy on the personal...
Update: Sigh. Tim Ferriss, normally about as apolitical blogger as they come, posts a compelling interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the guy who brought us the Pentagon Papers about how the proposed FISA Amendments will strip U.S. citizens of basic rights against unreasonable search and seizure that (so...
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”...
This isn't my first post on the FISA amendment. This goes back to everything I've said in my last post about corporations having lawmakers in their pockets. Retroactive immunity. What this means is that in the wake of the 9/11 attacks the Bush/Cheney administration ordered the telecommunication...
Wow, I'm watching the last few minutes of Obama's speech at the National Conference of Mayors. This guy is amazing, I find myself riveted to the television when he speaks. I am proud that America is finally putting it's best and brightest forward. For the first time, I am proud to be a American!...
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