Andrew_Quentin

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by Andrew_Quentin 13y ago
Slavery, World War II and Prison Camps in a time of peace! How are they comparable?
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"why DO we continue?" To be is rare, to not be is not. Rare things are precious for their novelty if nothing else. We are going to die in any event, so we might as well live while we can.
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I was under the impression that they were flying on a privately owned plane. That does not seem to be the case, but it may be on their next leg of the journey. I do not have direct knowledge, but I would think that if the plane is of the di
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I would think the plane is safe and perhaps the plane could be considered as territory of the nation of the diplomat therefore the diplomat could offer him asylum on the plane if need be, but I may be wrong about the latter.
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"If you were just now appalled to learn about the changes made to FISA with the PATRIOT act, you are 12 years behind the times." The leaked documents are TOP SECRET. By definition top secret documents are not public knowledge. If
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What evidence is suspect? Here is one new thing - The president has admitted that this programme exists while before in congressional committees it was denied. The president stated that nobody listens to your data when evidence has been pre
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Repeated talking points ad nauseum. Wasn't Manning tortured? Isn't Snowden going from one country to another? What makes you think the case of Assange is any different? Have we all forgotten how 3 years ago when the revelations fi
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Yup, and it is what has always led to war.
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I think you missed the point. He was basically saying that Obama and Bush are the same.
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If the president can't stand up to it, who can?
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The buck stops with Obama. Ignorance or incompetence is in some ways worse than lying as he might have some good reason to lie.
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Welcome to rhetorics 101
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Why don't you sue and find out?
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Spying on an enemy government is way different from spying on civilians.
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I think its rather that no one has tested the above argument. The judgement was in 1953, so it had nothing to say about the internet or data stored in the US.
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Maybe time was a factor, perhaps he was ready to publish his story or close to doing so. Then there is also the tactic of hiding in plain sight. All of what you mentioned could however be a coincidence, but that doesn't seem to be the
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A private contract can not make you guilty of criminal offences.
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Since 1917? I'd think quite a few
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Arguably the whole programme is illegal.
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Who said it is legal or illegal? If some law contravenes the constitution that law is not legal therefore whatever the law says should not be done is legal.
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You boil a frog slowly. If such thing as torture, surveillance, indefinite imprisonment without trial, secretive kill list, secretive removal of right (no fly list) etc, become normalized and accepted, then a huge part of what forms a free
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This is 1953 though, a time when cars were still a very new and sometimes unreliable thing.
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The next question is, why is it so much higher in America? Homelessness is a moral as well as practical problem. How can more than half a million people have no home in the richest country on earth?
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How can they just be put under a gag order? Can you challenge these gag orders? If not then surely they are unconstitutional so you can just go ahead and break them.
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Squares or city centres are a good place, the Times Square being probably the best.
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That seems to be no different than the law applied to any citizen.
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You are mistaken. There are polls which show that the majority of Americans care far more about privacy than fighting terrorism.
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It is a rhetorical tactic of whisking the issue away. Hey guys, this is old news, lets not talk about it.
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I think there's a difference between the media and the populace.
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How can they rule the justification as unconstitutiona when the judges were giving court orders under that justification? More broadly though, I don't understand how you can possibly have secret courts. Justice not only must be done bu

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