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Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: Unknown Target on April 05, 2005, 02:01:45 pm
The right (giving us back our social freedoms), or the wrong (taking even more of them away)?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Terrorism
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: Deepblue on April 05, 2005, 04:21:04 pm
You could have made an unbiased post, but nooooo.
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: redsniper on April 05, 2005, 04:30:03 pm
Incoming political thread! Evade! Evade! :nervous:
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: Unknown Target on April 05, 2005, 04:32:38 pm
I was thinking about that deep, but if yo ureally think I'm wrong, give me a good reason as to how losing our freedoms is a good thing, and I'll change the post.
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: WMCoolmon on April 05, 2005, 04:38:09 pm
It's a damn acronym. Proper usage should be "The P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act".

Looks a bit more ominous now, doesn't it?

Here's a quote that scares me:
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"Experience has taught the FBI that there are no neat dividing lines that distinguish criminal, terrorist and foreign intelligence activity," Mueller said in his prepared testimony.



Does anyone know of an accurate list of the Patriot act's provisions with some sort of denotation for which expire and which don't? I was under the impression that the search warrant thing did expire.
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: aldo_14 on April 05, 2005, 04:40:15 pm
The wrong, of course.  It's easier to take than give.
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: Ford Prefect on April 05, 2005, 05:05:50 pm
This is why democracy is a constant row against the tide. It will always be counterintuitive for governments to grant people real liberty. So how do they solve the problem? Convince the people they don't want liberty anyway. Yay.
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: Nuclear1 on April 05, 2005, 05:07:02 pm
One sign that HLP is returning to normal...
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on April 05, 2005, 05:07:53 pm
The right.

...

I feel like being optimistic today.
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: Rictor on April 05, 2005, 08:04:56 pm
It'll go through. The Republicans control both the Senate and Congress. Even if every single Democrat opposd it, which they're not going to, PATRIOT still gets renewed.
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: vyper on April 05, 2005, 08:11:11 pm
You're ****ed. Yes, blindly patriotic yankee boys I'm talking to you. You're about to get a lesson in fascism you won't soon forget.
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: phreak on April 05, 2005, 08:30:18 pm
I've always held fast to the belief that voting was useless and assassination was the only way for political change to take place.
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: Ford Prefect on April 05, 2005, 08:30:41 pm
Quick! Someone pack up all the jazz, books, hot dogs, and all of Broadway! We're moving in with you guys across the Atlantic!
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: phreak on April 05, 2005, 08:33:23 pm
coward
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: Rictor on April 05, 2005, 09:08:24 pm
You can come to Canada if you like, but there's no way we're letting Broadway across the border. We've got our own talentless hacks to deal with, don't need any more thank you very much.
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: phreak on April 05, 2005, 09:06:10 pm
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You can come to Canada if you like, but there's no way we're letting Broadway across the border. We've got our own talentless hacks to deal with, don't need any more thank you very much.


Terrance and Phillip > Broadway
Title: So who's gonna win?
Post by: Ford Prefect on April 05, 2005, 09:11:26 pm
Philistines. "The Frogs" owns you all.