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U.S. to eavesdrop on the legal terrorists.

 
 
shirtless, beepers and suntans
01:50 / 09.11.01
thank god for real men, like john ashcroft.

i'm liking this "domestic front" less and less every day.

a question for the brits here: most of you are probably too young, but did your government trample on your civil liberties this bad during the blitz?
 
 
shirtless, beepers and suntans
02:58 / 09.11.01
here's another good one.

sounds like a good idea to me, what with how intelligent the last few directors of central intelligence were.
 
 
Perfect Tommy
03:08 / 09.11.01
For what it's worth, I did hear an interesting point from a journalist on the radio. He compared all this madness to the post-WWI Red Scare, the Japanese internment camps, and those wacky wiretaps of the Vietnam era; that is to say, things got very bad for civil liberties, and later returned to something approaching normalcy.

Not that I'm saying "Woohoo" for stripping of one's right to a lawyer, but it's at least something that might suggest the black trains aren't coming to take us all away.

(Bright sides are getting hard to come by, it's the best I could do.)
 
 
Mystery Gypt
10:05 / 09.11.01
quote:Originally posted by doubting thomas:
but it's at least something that might suggest the black trains aren't coming to take us all away.


well, what would it look like if there were?
 
 
Perfect Tommy
15:12 / 09.11.01
No answer to that one... I tried =\
 
  
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