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MSgt213 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 07:16 PM
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Outstanding quote of the day.
# AP: TSA Broke Privacy Laws. (The Transportation Security Agency) had promised it would only use the limited information about passengers that it had obtained from airlines. Instead, the agency and its contractors compiled files on people using data from commercial brokers and then compared those files with the lists.

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"Meanwhile, Congress sits there and does nothing, unless you count its imminent move to ratify the "Patriot" Act. And Americans sit there like sheep, preferring an illusion of safety to the facts of modern life, that liberty brings risks. Too bad people don't realize that the risks will be there even after we've abandoned liberty, too."

http://bayosphere.com/blog/dangillmor

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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 07:25 PM
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1. That's a pretty damn
good quote for any day!

The sheep are putting their lives in the hands of "illusionists".
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Sparkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 07:38 PM
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2. you have to go to jail, to fight this system. Pick a victimless crime.
you fight corrupt politicians with acts of sedition.
you fight repressive laws by violating them for all to see.
you fight aparatchiks in business & government with slander & libel.
you fight bullies with assault & battery against them in public.
you fight until you can't fight any more.
The legal system works to criminalize the poor.
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NorCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 08:03 PM
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4. Good men must not obey laws to well
Ralph Waldo Emerson. :D
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 07:55 PM
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3. Doesn't it seem that the citizens are feeling their dire fates in spite of
knowledge that pours in and descend on us.

How can people be so stupid, stubborn, and trusting.
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