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Friday, 24 February 2006

Beware The Sudafed Using Lobster Farming Terrorists

quote [ If you thought al Qaeda or Iraqi insurgents were the major threats facing America, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) says you're wrong. According to Dent, "The growing availability of methamphetamine is a form of terrorism unto itself." ...so they've attached surveillance, "smuggling", and "money laundering" provisions to the reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act. ]

No comment is really necessary. Both parties in Congress remind me of grade school students running for Student Council.

I'm not even addressing the PATRIOT Act itself... but for all those who supported it and said it wouldn't become yet another tool to be used against American Citizen's rights and suggested people are overreacting because they hate Bush... well fuck you. Some knew members on both sides would be scrambling for years to slip everything under the sun in there.

It's bad enough we have riders on unrelated bills and last minute changes that nobody has a chance to read before voting on them. Not that good judgement towards the best long term interests of the country would be used by most in Congress anyways. Where the hell is the Ron Paul cloning machine?

[politics] [by wieder@1:01amGMT] [+7 WTF]

Comments

vahid said @ 1:08am GMT on 24th Feb [Score:1 Funny]
NSFW:
lobster
http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/370/lobsterpussy0wy.jpg

wieder said @ 1:10am GMT on 24th Feb
How long has that one been waiting to be used? :)

vahid said @ 1:16am GMT on 24th Feb
been there, done it.

ragazze said @ 1:16am GMT on 24th Feb
saw the movie, liked the book better.

vahid said @ 1:25am GMT on 24th Feb
my people will call your people.

warmseat said @ 3:13am GMT on 24th Feb
+1 ravishing expression
+1 nice boobs
+1 lobster... mmmmhh...
-1 oh, better butter up on some sun block, dear. That mole looks dangerous...

incpenners said @ 6:42am GMT on 24th Feb
I saw remake.

Crabs, not as good.

pmar13 said @ 9:13am GMT on 24th Feb
funny how the mind works, since my mind is on lobster, i read that as liked the booked butter

saranated said @ 2:18am GMT on 24th Feb
Everytime I read stuff like this, it leads me to believe that all the airheads who skimmed the cliff notes of 1984 in high scool go into politics.

FreedomeFromLiberty said @ 2:28am GMT on 24th Feb
Drug War meets Terror War, better money maker than Cold War.

A Scanner Darkly' Reveals Near Future Police State
A new movie set to hit the big screen this summer depicts a near future America that has lost the war on drugs and capitulated into the tentacles of a pervasive control grid.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2006/220206scannerdarkly.htm

"Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs'"

Not that George W. Bush needs much encouragement, but Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a new target for the administration’s domestic operations -- Fifth Columnists, supposedly disloyal Americans who sympathize and collaborate with the enemy.

US Detention Centers

US Labor Camps

Pentagon Surveillance

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/022106a.html

See Also: Merchandising Prisoners...

Why give an accused man a break, why let a prisoner out of the system, when he can be farmed out to Big-Business at pennies on the dollar? Too good for Commerce not to, doncha know. Why keep prison populations low, when over-crowding can be used to justify building ANOTHER private prison?
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Surveillance Is on the Rise, Straining Carriers
from the if-there-is-that-much-we-should-probably-rethink-this dept.

"The number of telephone wiretaps from 2000 to 2004 authorized by state and federal judges increased by 44%, the Wall Street Journal reports, in part because of a rise in terrorism investigations after 9/11, and because the Patriot Act extended surveillance to Internet providers. All the surveillance activity can put a strain on carriers.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/09/145241

madpride said @ 2:46am GMT on 24th Feb
"It has been said before, but welcome to George Orwell's 1984. The thing that gets me is the lip service paid to liberties. If governments are going to go to these lengths then why deal with the pretense of having "freedom"? What is next? Thoughtcrimes?"

"Why not just tell all communication corporations that they are taking them over and they will now be owned by the government so that surveillance can be conducted on the civilian populace? "

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/09/145241

gunthar said @ 4:02am GMT on 24th Feb
plz keep the crazy messages in just one thingy plz=(

zenviper said @ 7:50am GMT on 24th Feb
From now on, less quotes, more discourse.

v21 said @ 9:10am GMT on 24th Feb
I just read the full story of David McNab. here. it's turned my stomach. And also, left me very curious. There's something missing, I'm sure of it. Who sent the fax? Who found Ms. Paz? He seems to have some serious enemies for this kind of shit to erupt on him. Leastaways, I'd hope so. To believe that the law could turn on you that savagely for no reason at all is terrifying.

pmar13 said @ 9:11am GMT on 24th Feb
you know I could not believe that the last time I bought medicine in the grocery store I had to sign for it and sho my license up at the coutner. now they put little pamphlets out and you take them to the counter. its freaking crazy. I guess this is whats its all about. its frikkin annoying

pmar13 said @ 9:12am GMT on 24th Feb
btw.. it was pseudehedrine or however you spell it

fiester said @ 12:15pm GMT on 24th Feb
Meth = crack for crackers.

GordonGuano said @ 1:46pm GMT on 24th Feb
Reason Magazine=yawn.

If a big-L Libertarian ever got a job, their political leanings would shift in a heartbeat. If a small-L libertarian would put down the bong and write their Congressman...they'd still need to get a job.

As far as meth goes, there are plenty of drugs whose addiction factor exceeds the resistance factor of most people, and I don't see the problem with trying to control those drugs. Unfortunately, our methods of control aren't working so great. William Burroughs didn't get much else right, but I liked what he called the Algbra of Need: Eliminate the junkies at the base of the pyramid, and the dealers and distibutors further up the food chain suffer.