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Offline Unknown Target

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Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right...
on: March 09, 2007, 10:58:15 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/national_security_letters

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WASHINGTON - The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the
FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans. They apologized and vowed to prevent further illegal intrusions.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales left open the possibility of pursuing criminal charges against FBI agents or lawyers who improperly used the USA Patriot Act in pursuit of suspected terrorists and spies.

Looks like they got caught though, which is good.
  

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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right...
Reply #1 on: March 10, 2007, 01:10:55 am
If I was the government I'd make an example out of them, but it seems that isn't nesisary cause no one cares.
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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right...
Reply #2 on: March 10, 2007, 05:59:53 am
i personally dont care if america goes to fascism, just so long as we dont screw up whilst conqering the world like the germans did.
I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right
Reply #3 on: March 10, 2007, 08:18:16 am
Quote from: Nuke on March 10, 2007, 05:59:53 am
i personally dont care if america goes to fascism, just so long as we dont screw up whilst conqering the world like the germans did.

Nice post, Nuke!  :D

But seriously, isn't this what everyone is talking about? That screw what the government says, we want our privacy? Where's aldo?
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right...
Reply #4 on: March 10, 2007, 03:11:37 pm
The FBI director is falling on his sword, which is I suppose reasonable. The Justice Department was the one that outed them, so amusingly enough...go federal government, you damn noobs.
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Offline aldo_14

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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right...
Reply #5 on: March 10, 2007, 06:56:51 pm
Quote from: Agent_Koopa on March 10, 2007, 08:18:16 am
Quote from: Nuke on March 10, 2007, 05:59:53 am
i personally dont care if america goes to fascism, just so long as we dont screw up whilst conqering the world like the germans did.

Nice post, Nuke!  :D

But seriously, isn't this what everyone is talking about? That screw what the government says, we want our privacy? Where's aldo?

In bed.

In Scotland. ;)
 

Offline Agent_Koopa

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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right
Reply #6 on: March 10, 2007, 10:03:57 pm
Quote from: aldo_14 on March 10, 2007, 06:56:51 pm
Quote from: Agent_Koopa on March 10, 2007, 08:18:16 am
Quote from: Nuke on March 10, 2007, 05:59:53 am
i personally dont care if america goes to fascism, just so long as we dont screw up whilst conqering the world like the germans did.

Nice post, Nuke!  :D

But seriously, isn't this what everyone is talking about? That screw what the government says, we want our privacy? Where's aldo?

In bed.

In Scotland. ;)

Oh...right...
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Offline aldo_14

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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right...
Reply #7 on: March 11, 2007, 09:58:22 am
Not that I'm insinuating the UK government isn't equally as authoritarian and ****ed-up, of course.....
 

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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right
Reply #8 on: March 11, 2007, 01:30:49 pm
Well, the Patriot Act was always about providing the government with the means to invade people's privacy in the name of national security.

Same with the war in Iraq.

You know, the first chance I get, I'm out of here. I was thinking about applying for graduate studies or as a transfer to Imperial College London...I know a lot of guys are from the UK, what do you guys know about it?
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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right
Reply #9 on: March 11, 2007, 01:56:20 pm
Quote from: wtf_cl0vvn on March 11, 2007, 01:30:49 pm
Well, the Patriot Act was always about providing the government with the means to invade people's privacy in the name of national security.

Same with the war in Iraq.

You know, the first chance I get, I'm out of here. I was thinking about applying for graduate studies or as a transfer to Imperial College London...I know a lot of guys are from the UK, what do you guys know about it?

From what i hear from the guys around here, its not any better. The netherlands and scandanavia seem like civilized countries though.... can someone shed light on this?
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Offline wtf_cl0vvn

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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right
Reply #10 on: March 11, 2007, 02:17:08 pm
I suppose youre right...

I know a lot of countries in Europe are having some serious **** about immigration...

how is Switzerland? I was also thinking about the University of Geneva, and maybe getting a postdoc job there at the CERN.
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Offline aldo_14

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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right...
Reply #11 on: March 11, 2007, 02:46:32 pm
Quote from: wtf_cl0vvn on March 11, 2007, 01:30:49 pm
Well, the Patriot Act was always about providing the government with the means to invade people's privacy in the name of national security.

Same with the war in Iraq.

You know, the first chance I get, I'm out of here. I was thinking about applying for graduate studies or as a transfer to Imperial College London...I know a lot of guys are from the UK, what do you guys know about it?

We're better off at the mo, I think, but not for lack of trying by the current government.
 

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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right
Reply #12 on: March 11, 2007, 02:48:40 pm
Quote from: wtf_cl0vvn on March 11, 2007, 01:30:49 pm
Well, the Patriot Act was always about providing the government with the means to invade people's privacy in the name of national security.

Same with the war in Iraq.

You know, the first chance I get, I'm out of here. I was thinking about applying for graduate studies or as a transfer to Imperial College London...I know a lot of guys are from the UK, what do you guys know about it?

Well, its about the same every where I think.  We just got a new post-doc from London (he graduated from the Imperial College).
 

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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right
Reply #13 on: March 11, 2007, 04:34:53 pm
Quote from: wtf_cl0vvn on March 11, 2007, 01:30:49 pm
You know, the first chance I get, I'm out of here. I was thinking about applying for graduate studies or as a transfer to Imperial College London...

In my case I'm waiting on the University of British Columbia in the end of the month. Not that Canada is going to be any safer in the long run...
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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right
Reply #14 on: March 11, 2007, 06:10:55 pm
Quote from: wtf_cl0vvn on March 11, 2007, 02:17:08 pm
I know a lot of countries in Europe are having some serious **** about immigration...

Such as..
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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right
Reply #15 on: March 11, 2007, 06:17:29 pm
Quote from: Janos on March 11, 2007, 06:10:55 pm
Quote from: wtf_cl0vvn on March 11, 2007, 02:17:08 pm
I know a lot of countries in Europe are having some serious **** about immigration...

Such as..

Malta, suffering a sudden influx of smelly little cheese eaters and wine drinkers with Black Forest armpit hair.

Pfft, French people.

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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right
Reply #16 on: March 11, 2007, 07:40:40 pm
Now if i made similar cracks about whos immigrating into France, i'd be labeled racist. :p
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Offline wtf_cl0vvn

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Re: Remember those fears about the Patriot Act? Well they admitted we were right
Reply #17 on: March 11, 2007, 08:57:52 pm
Quote from: Janos on March 11, 2007, 06:10:55 pm
Quote from: wtf_cl0vvn on March 11, 2007, 02:17:08 pm
I know a lot of countries in Europe are having some serious **** about immigration...

Such as..

Well, by that I meant that there was some backlash against it...about a year ago or something...

Perhaps that original statement was a bit inaccurate. Like a slasher beam  ::)
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