kerrywins
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Thu Dec-10-09 03:57 PM
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Why Won't Obama Push to End The Patriot Act and Homeland Security? |
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Both violate our rights heavily.
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Thu Dec-10-09 03:59 PM
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Anything else is pure speculation. He may have valid reasons, but we'll never know unless he is asked.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:03 PM
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5. Of if he is to busy picking up his peace prize to answer such, you |
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Can always refer the matter to his pacifist friend, Dr Kissinger, who serves as one of Obama's advisers.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:05 PM
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thats true...Kissinger, a man you can always count on.....
for war and a beautiful police state.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:07 PM
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9. That was substantive and constructive. |
kerrywins
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:13 PM
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14. Kissinger, advisor to the stars (Clinton, Bush, Obama) |
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here you are sir...your usual....a nice false flag appetizer, will you be having the same entree? middle eastern war?
and for dessert, sir...a nice police state with golden crust....
very well, sir....
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:35 PM
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24. Oh, he'll be home from receiving the NNP that he |
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deserves and then she can ask him.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:04 PM
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6. I think we know already |
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Some things there just is not the political will to take on. Why on earth would Obama be willing to take the political heat that would arise from ending the PATRIOT act? There is very little political harm in keeping the PATRIOT act. There would be hell to pay if he fought to get rid of it.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:02 PM
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2. he who continues endless wars |
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Edited on Thu Dec-10-09 04:05 PM by truedelphi
yet supposedly was a "community organizer' must have missed the community organizing class on how war never allows for Social Justice, nor does it allow for Civil Rights.
Those who are for war are nver really all that caring for a populace's natural and inalienable rights.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:11 PM
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12. Didn't the American Civil War allow some Social Justice? n/t |
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:25 PM
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18. You are right - I should have qualified the wars |
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World War II allowed for Social Justice as well.
But no war fought since WWII has done anything but strangle our budget, oppress foreign peoples, and add to the growth in the MIC, at an expense to our Civil Rights.
However, in the Vietnam era, we at least had the Fourth Estate (the press) to push for maintaining those rights. Thus the Pentagon Papers were printed, by eighteen different papers and news chains!
Now a days, the newspapers themselves are the problem.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:02 PM
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3. It would not be politically beneficial for him to do so |
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Just like ending the drug war. Pot smokers, civil right activist, all, can either vote for Obama or the GOP in 2012.
Obama will always be better then the GOP alternative..
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:05 PM
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8. yeah but I can just smoke some pot |
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go for a bike ride, but this time not put my absentee ballot in the mailbox and say "fuck it, I live in France now anyways".
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:09 PM
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10. Or there will be someone else worth voting for |
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Although my electoral vote went to Clinton (96) and Gore (2000), I voted for Nader both times as he represented my views better then the democrats. I might not have done so in a swing state, but I did in safe NYS.
Enjoy France.. Ride that bike around the block once for me please!
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:20 PM
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15. blocks are so american |
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here the streets are more like a spiderweb, but I will go through the nearest "place" where 6 streets come together for you.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:40 PM
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Please do and enjoy. Peace and low stress (avoid those cars!)
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:27 PM
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22. "Obama will always be better then the GOP alternative" That I agree with 300%. |
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:03 PM
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4. May be for the same reason he defends Yoo and accepts the corrupt booosh policy of preemptive war. |
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:11 PM
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11. Wrestling power away from the executive branch is always difficult. |
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It seems that every president jealously guards those powers, no matter what party they belong to. I had hoped this wouldn't be the case. Apparently, once again, it is.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:23 PM
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16. I don't see Obama cackling with glee jealously guarding it |
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There is so much on his plate right now.
But the converse is that if we can get Medicare down to 55, it will be hard for future repukes to undo. Some of them would do away with Mediate entirely, and they didn't get that even from Chimpy and a rethug Congress.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:12 PM
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13. the Patriot Act was a zillion pages long |
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It would take time. There's a bad economy and that takes precedence.
A Congressman could always introduce legislation to repeal it.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:27 PM
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21. Not to mention that there were a number of good initiatives rolled into it - |
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Democratic sponsored legislation that was pending already, and added to the Patriot Act to ensure passage.
It was a mistake to pass it in the first place, but it must be de-constructed carefully and piecemeal. Individual bills to strip out certain provisions, or to legally separate certain provisions from the Patriot Act so they don't go away when the act expires or is repealed.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:24 PM
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17. How does Homeland Security violate our rights heavily? |
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I understand the semantic arguments against the vaguely Orwellian name, but...
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:26 PM
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19. Because it's really the NSA who's running the country |
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Not the President, Congress and/or the Supreme Court. In secret, with no accountability to the citizenry, the NSA ALWAYS gets what it wants.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:26 PM
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20. Afraid of being called weak and soft on terror |
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You know thats what it is
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:32 PM
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23. Because he supports them? |
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Thu Dec-10-09 05:44 PM
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you're the first person i think who gets it right.
cognitive dissonance engines are in overdrive in this thread trying to explain away the fact that he hasn't even mentioned dismantling aspects of the patriot act.
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:42 PM
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26. Im a big fan of Obama still, but these 2 are certainly |
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CYA political caluculations in case something were to happen....
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Thu Dec-10-09 04:46 PM
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27. End homeland security? |
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Thu Dec-10-09 05:09 PM
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29. Why do we still have rendition? Why is he protecting John Yoo? |
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The questions beg for an honest answer.
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Thu Dec-10-09 06:25 PM
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31. Because the bosses who own this country told him not to. |
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They might need those powers to thwart the coming revolution.
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Thu Dec-10-09 06:30 PM
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32. Because his "vote" will be on record? |
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Thu Dec-10-09 06:36 PM
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33. Because he lacks political courage. nt |
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Thu Dec-10-09 07:44 PM
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just repeal the Patriot Act, unfortunately. It substantially changed (and created) multiple sections of US Code, those can't just be repealed, they have to be dissected out individually.
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Fri Dec-11-09 01:02 AM
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35. because it would be a waste of time and political capital? |
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Check out the vote, particularly in the Senate, on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act.
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