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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 03:01 PM
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New Postal law allows Chimpy to read our mail
A new postal law allows the feds to peak thru our mail--without a warrant--in "emergency situations."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/485556/p-408789c.html

(you gotta see the headline and picture!!)
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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 03:02 PM
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1. LMAO!!
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 03:02 PM
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2. already on the home page ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3038605
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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 03:03 PM
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3. Nothing to worry about people...just go back to shopping.
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partylessinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 03:13 PM
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4. OK, so what will Congress do about this?
from the link:

    The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open people's mail under emergency conditions.

    That claim is contrary to existing law and contradicted the bill he had just signed, say experts who have reviewed it.

    Bush's move came during the winter congressional recess and a year after his secret domestic electronic eavesdropping program was first revealed. It caught Capitol Hill by surprise.

    "Despite the President's statement that he may be able to circumvent a basic privacy protection, the new postal law continues to prohibit the government from snooping into people's mail without a warrant," said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the incoming House Government Reform Committee chairman, who co-sponsored the bill.


* signed himself this authority. So who made him king?
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 03:21 PM
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5. Who is Waxman kidding...a warrant???
Does Henry Waxman actually think that a warrant would stop Junior from invading our privacy?

Oh please.

The Constitution hasn't had an effect on the little bastard, why would a little thing like a warrant have an impact?
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hashibabba Donating Member (894 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 04:23 PM
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6. I think Bush should be put in jail--at Guantanamo. See how he
likes torture and murder. Every time he does something (anything), I think, "OK, this has gone too far." But he just keeps making up things as he goes along. If I believed in reincarnation, I'd think he was reincarnated from Hitler.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 04:31 PM
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7. hooray for the NYDN
it's about time people start reporting about Bush's signning statements. :toast:
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bumblebee1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 04:59 PM
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8. To paraphrase a bumper sticker
Bush is reading your mail- use big words.
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