This is a compromise. The citizens give up democracy in order to get

big brother spying on them. It is a win win situation. The administrations

crooks are free and the congresses oversight is free of obligation to

uphold the Constitution.

Long live our new monarchy. King Corporation wins again.

by Wolfie (9 articles, 0 quicklinks, 33 diaries, 1208 comments) on Sunday, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:07:33 PM

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Given the statistics of....

nearly 1 million people on no-fly lists, including babies and Joe Smith's because their name matches someone else's on the "Terrorist" d-base, activists, and Democrats in public office such as Ted Kennedy (no Republicans on the no-fly list), it would seem to be obvious that the so-called "War on terror" is really a witchhunt for those who are "either for us or against us", usually the latter.

If the Patriot Act defines "terrorist" in over-broad terms which include activists, wouldn't that seem intentional?

I want to strongly suggest that any activist organization which believes that it cannot focus on ousting Congressmembers, in interest of maintaining the focus on its core mission, is truly defeating itself. And the American public. Because at the rate things are going, free speech will be no more (it's already being punished: See the paragraph above) and these activist entities will themselves be obsolete.

TIME TO OUST CONGRESS!!!

Expose the voting record of YOUR congressperson to the public and urge readers to vote them out of office. Do it as if your life depended on it, because....it could! Wars based on lies, anybody? MOre funding, more billions? Sure thing.

Time to get them out of there and get the masses thinking. With an aware and thinking mass, we will have a different America and this stuff will be no more.

by Kathryn Smith (110 articles, 2 quicklinks, 43 diaries, 542 comments [23 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:59:00 PM

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AT&T Whistleblower: Spy Bill Creates 'Infrastructure for a Police State'

which is not at all clear from this article, or from the repost on WarOnYou's blog, which is where the link in the article goes 

by Better World Order (4 articles, 568 quicklinks, 39 diaries, 1112 comments [57 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Sunday, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:16:50 PM

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I should be ashamed to admit this, but it doesn't surprise me. In fact, I, and millions of others, saw it coming and did nothing. When did it start? Look back to the 60s and 70s and the suppresion of the First Admendment during the anti-war protests. Our civil liberties have been slowly erroded to the point we have none. The Constitution has been raped and we let it happen. Now, newborn babies will have their DNA taken to be added to a national data base.  If you are stopped by a cop, for any reason, your fingerprints will be taken and added to yet another data base. Monitoring of our phone calls is just another nail in the coffin of freedom. Don't complain, we let it happen.

by John Shriver (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 72 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:35:58 PM

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