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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 09:19 AM
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if you've nothing to hide you shouldn't mind being wiretapped & tortured
hey i'm an american, i've got nothing to hide, go ahead and tap my phone, i don't care who is listening as long as we're fighting the terrorists.

and the same goes for torture, i'm not committing any crimes and i'm not a terrorist so go ahead and torture me, it won't do any good but i don't mind cause we're at war against the killers.

you stupid liberals, nine eleven changed everything! prepare to be tapped and tortured.
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bluethruandthru Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 09:22 AM
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1. I've heard that so many times
Edited on Tue Jan-10-06 09:30 AM by bluethruandthru
from various idiots that cross my path! I can't believe these people! I always tell them to write to the white house and volunteer to give up their own civil rights...but stay the hell away from mine!
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 09:23 AM
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2. Looks like america got the leadership it deserves!
Stupid gits.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 09:23 AM
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3. I love it. If it were a person with a (D) after their name in the W.H.
they would be up in arms that the "Libs" are spying on them. And of course, we would still be saying the same thing as we are now.


I love being able to think for myself.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 10:37 AM
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14. Go back and look at what happened after Oklahoma City
in 95 - OxyRush was screaming about how Clinton wanted to clamp down on America, turning it into a police state (for "average Americans").

The Repukes paired up (not the first, not the last) with the ACLU to defeat any measures that gave Clinton a tenth of the powers that Bush now enjoys (f*ck the "Rule of Law") . . .
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Surya Gayatri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 09:32 AM
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4. On the contrary,
you should prove you've got nothing to reproach yourself with by voluntarily submitting to "trial by fire" (a form of self-cleansing à la Mao) SG :sarcasm:
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 09:37 AM
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5. Innocent victims of medieval witch hunts didn't mind...
...being tortured and brutally murdered because, gosh, if they weren't really witches, at least they got to go to heaven in a hurry. Win-win.

:mad:

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Nobody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 09:40 AM
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6. My standard response
I may not have anything to hide, but you still don't get to paw through my underwear drawer.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 10:12 AM
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12. Aha! Now I know where you keep your subversive materials!
Especially that application form for the Sierra Club, you pinko believer in "civil rights".
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 09:52 AM
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7. if shrub has nothing to hide, he shouldn't mind testifying under oath
but he seems to be allergic to putting his hand on the bible when it really matters....
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 09:54 AM
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8. Tapped and Tortured. Isn't that a Broadway play?
Should be.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 09:58 AM
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9. My Reversal
If i have nothing to hide, i shouldn't be wiretapped, because the gov't is wasting time and money. So, don't wiretap me without cause and court supervision. We'll save money that way.
The Professor
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 10:00 AM
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10. Pretty much
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tnlefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 10:04 AM
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11. I left a wingnut speechless in a parking lot the other day by mentioning
"Your pResident and Vice pResident and representative (Zach Wamp) all have arrest records much longer than mine. I say they have much more to hide than I do, so when do I get to turn the tables and illegally wiretap and spy on them?"

The look on his wingnutty face....priceless.
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DistressedAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 10:27 AM
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13. It is precicely because I had nothing to hide that I would resent being
wiretapped and/or tortured.

That is if "resent" is anything like the hostility and resentment that such circumstances would produce.
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