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The repugnance of secret law [pdf](weblaw.usc.edu)
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by ferdo 13y ago
Rather than worry about me, perhaps it might profit you more to worry about government encroachment on your rights.
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by ferdo 13y ago
We're having the same discussion but from different perspectives. Your comment placement suggestions aren't helpful. It added nothing to the exchange of opinions.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> I think it is pure folly to look at the Constitution with libertarian-colored glasses. On the contrary. It's pure folly to exercise authoritarian powers while claiming it's all for our own good: "The means of defense aga
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by ferdo 13y ago
> Erm, so the US is a democracy, right? It was supposed to be a Republic. It's now an oligarchy.
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by ferdo 13y ago
All legal rulings are merely the opinions of fallible people. Some of those fallible people are more authoritarian, some are more libertarian. "The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritaria
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by ferdo 13y ago
> The gist of the DOJ's argument is sound. That's a matter of opinion. If one is in favor of government power over the Constitutional rights of individual citizens, then I guess it makes some kind of sense. If one is more parti
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by ferdo 13y ago
Looking at history it would seem that when law disappears from view, people disappearing isn't far behind.
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Justice Dept. defends secret rulings in new spy court filing(gigaom.com)
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Michael Hastings Crash Investigation - Police and Fire Told Not to Comment(youtube.com)
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Eight Bush Officials Sentenced In Absentia For Torture and War Crimes(youtube.com)
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by ferdo 13y ago
> Also remarkable was the amount of information crammed into a single chirp lasting a 10th of a second. > "In one 10th of a second, they say 'Tall thin human wearing blue shirt walking slowly across the colony.'" M
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Magic at home: a book of amusing science (1891)(books.google.com)
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by ferdo 13y ago
We get the government we deserve. If we haven't been doing our jobs and keeping the State in check by asserting our rights whenever the State tries to impose upon them, then this is what we get. And we'll deserve it.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> In one of the court’s most important decisions, the judges have expanded the use in terrorism cases of a legal principle known as the “special needs” doctrine and carved out an exception to the Fourth Amendment’s requirement of a warr
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by ferdo 13y ago
Many thanks for the hosts file. I always prefer a DIY solution as opposed to trusting others. I'll pass this on.
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"The governments know from what direction the greatest danger threatens them"(tolstoy.neocities.org)
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"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us." Tolstoy
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by ferdo 13y ago
If he had said, "I want a drone to take out a school in Pakistan", he'd have gotten recruiting calls from the military.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Bitcoin + https://www.privateinternetaccess.com . What's a credit card?
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Endgame, Inc: Inside The Company Inside Your Cell Phone(news.firedoglake.com)
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by ferdo 13y ago
One would think some enterprising journalist or someone with a cellphone would have seen him and gotten a pic.We see pictures of everyone and everything except for Edward Snowden in airports or on planes.
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by ferdo 13y ago
It would be nice if he used the money for American infrastructure.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> Didn't Putin himself say he's there? Trusting the word of any politician or world leader is a risky biz. > It is pretty strange that no one has seen him. The most talked about man in the world was hanging around two major
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by ferdo 13y ago
Not to be the eternal skeptic, but has anyone seen any pictures of Snowden in the Hong Kong or Moscow airports?
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by ferdo 13y ago
> the beauty of a democratic society is that if a majority agree with you, then you can change the system. This is false. The NSA considers itself outside the realm of law: > "NSA does not have a statutory charter; its operationa
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by ferdo 13y ago
> "We need you to focus on our primary mission of spying on our nation and our allies."
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by ferdo 13y ago
If Wayne Madsen isn't dead or in jail, he's not releasing anything dangerous to the NSA.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> Obama being a gay (!) Kenyan citizen. I don't know about his sexual proclivities but Obama was born a dual American/Kenyan citizen. He was also born a British subject by virtue of his father's status.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> If you think he hasn't learned something in the span of 10 years He's learned to keep his little narcissistic mouth shut.

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