kpete
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Fri Jan-28-11 04:13 PM
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what "they" can do in a blink.... |
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Edited on Fri Jan-28-11 04:19 PM by kpete
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e20148c81a000a970c-550wi............ interesting update: Under ‘emergency’ for decades, Egypt’s special powers mirrored in post-9/11 USIndefinite detention. Ubiquitous torture. Secret courts. Special authority for police interventions. The complete absence of privacy, even in one's own home. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/perpetual-emergency-1981-egypt-gave-government-uslike-special-powers/
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Fri Jan-28-11 04:16 PM
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1. Dumbest thing they could have done. |
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Fri Jan-28-11 04:17 PM
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Fri Jan-28-11 04:59 PM
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it drove people out into the streets to find out what was going on. Love how that backfired on them!
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Fri Jan-28-11 04:17 PM
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3. And yet, somehow, the protests continue without the almighty internets |
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How strange. Who would have thought it possible?
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Fri Jan-28-11 04:18 PM
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4. And it won't help them one bit |
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Fri Jan-28-11 04:18 PM
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5. How do we stop them from doing that? |
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Fri Jan-28-11 04:21 PM
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6. Wouldn't worry about it too much. |
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With technology there's usually a work-around. In any case revolutions are people not gadgets.
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Fri Jan-28-11 04:49 PM
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7. Well. No revolution is going to start on the internet. I bet half the goal of this is |
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to stop the spread of the information to those in solidarity around the world.
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Fri Jan-28-11 05:00 PM
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10. I think that it was the entire goal - it's not like people were sitting home |
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watching the Internet in Egypt - they were out in the streets.
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Fri Jan-28-11 04:58 PM
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8. Obama wants to be able to do the same thing here....for our safety of course... |
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