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Aerows

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January 30, 2015

So secret

that Congressional staffers can't review the unadulterated bill and members of Congress can't even take NOTES?

Are we back to "national security, you can't view it" but "everybody knew about it already" again?

Please.

January 30, 2015

Not sure I can, actually

since the documents are too sealed for anyone to know, since you can't take notes, can't have any security violated, right? It's like asking if someone violated national secrets and then they can't defend themselves in court because it could disclose national secrets.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't and damned anyway because ... security.

January 30, 2015

If a trade deal

has the high-security of managing nuclear weapons talks, that tells me that there is danger, people don't want it to get out, and the people that don't want it to get out aren't dwellers on Main Street, or even First Street suburbia.

I mean really, nuclear weapons talks are less important with regards to security than discussions over a trade agreement?

Elected officials in Congress can see the text, but they have to go to the USTR, where they can look at the document, but they're not allowed to take notes, make copies or bring any staffers (such as experts on trade or any of the issues in the document) with them.


How stupid do the people that are behind the TPP think the American people are, exactly? Do we have "DUMB" inscribed on our foreheads?

The Wall Street and Political set has done SO MUCH for everyone but themselves for the last 30 years.

January 11, 2015

Poll: People who leak classified intelligence

to those unauthorized to view it are committing criminal acts and should be prosecuted.

January 5, 2015

If we as a people

are bound to be humane and enlightened, we must prosecute torturers.

It is not an if, it is a when.

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Name: Aerows
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About Aerows

Love to cook, Code, Build Computers, Tae Kwon Do, write, observe local fauna (sometimes at peril) and argue about interesting topics. Typical Sagittarius.
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