If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

GaryPDX: If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

Does that include stabbing you in the face?

/as long as I'm going...

Evil Otto: GaryPDX: If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

Does that include stabbing you in the face?

/as long as I'm going...

lol.

Giving them additional powers would seem to be redundant since they do whatever they damn well please anyway. This sort of stuff wont stop until people start going to jail for it.

GaryPDX: If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

fark yes I have something to worry about. My friggin privacy. I don't care who it is, I don't want them reading my angry emails to Newegg.

GaryPDX: If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

What happened to the Republican Mantra of less government interference into our public lives? Smaller government?

GaryPDX: If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

Well, I can't argue with that.

Not until I've had a full spectrum of lobotmies to bring me down to your level, anyway.

My sarcasm detector went off GaryPDX, pretty sure that was your doing. It's sad, but I remember when that was a fairly common rebuttal.

milk_plus: Giving them additional powers would seem to be redundant since they do whatever they damn well please anyway. This sort of stuff wont stop until people start going to jail for it.

And there are STILL people who think the FBI can be trusted.

amazing.

Weaver95:And there are STILL people who think the FBI can be trusted.

amazing.

I'm starting to think they missed the entire point of Spider-man.

milk_plus: Weaver95:And there are STILL people who think the FBI can be trusted.

amazing.

I'm starting to think they missed the entire point of Spider-man.

I'm starting to think they missed the entire point of the US constitution.

I'm so tired.

milk_plus: This sort of stuff wont stop until people start going to jail for it.

Yeah, but you can't send anyone to jail when there's a guy in the White House that would have no problem issuing mass pardons.

is it just me, or is this almost the same article as this thread (new window)which is also greenlit?

shaft6969: is it just me, or is this almost the same article as this thread (new window)which is also greenlit?

I think it's the same. Just a different news source.

IrateShadow: milk_plus: This sort of stuff wont stop until people start going to jail for it.

Yeah, but you can't send anyone to jail when there's a guy in the White House that would have no problem issuing mass pardons.

I that something to address that would be a good amendment to the constitution. I don't think presidents should be able to pardon members of their executive branch. Later presidents should be allowed to pardon the staff of previous administrations but there is just too much room for abuse with the system we have now.

xanadian: shaft6969: is it just me, or is this almost the same article as this thread (new window)which is also greenlit?

I think it's the same. Just a different news source.

Fox News is more trusted than CNN.

GaryPDX: If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

Indeed. Comrade Stalin is just looking out for our safety.

Weaver95:
I'm starting to think they missed the entire point of the US constitution.

The Constitution is pre-9/11 thinking. You're either with us, or with The Terrorists. The Executive branch is above the law. It's for our own good. If you don't like it, you hate America, and want us to fail.

I'd inspect her genitals...

/wait, what?

tomcatadam: GaryPDX: If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

Indeed. Comrade Stalin is just looking out for our safety.

GaryPDX: If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.


Dude, I don't think you have enough line to pull in all of those bites.

10/10 for results.

keiverarrow
My sarcasm detector went off GaryPDX, pretty sure that was your doing. It's sad, but I remember when that was a fairly common rebuttal.

yeah... the only conservatives we have anymore are trolls or insane. It's sort of sad- like hearing about how the Dodo went extinct. Actually, that's a pretty good analogy.

TMBGfreak
10/10 for results.

He is the master.

Are these the freedoms the Brown People hate us for?

Lord_Baull: Are these the freedoms the Brown People hate us for?

If we take away our freedoms, they have nothing to hate us for. Right?

I'm so pleased that GaryPDX nearly got this thread derailed right from the boobies post.

I award you 9/10, good sir.

National Security Letters (NSLs) issued : 49,425
violations : 48

Weavwe95: I'm starting to think they missed the entire point of the US constitution.

So have you read Ivins' final book, Bill of Wrongs?

Scary farking stuff.

ZaldaPhlemm: National Security Letters (NSLs) issued : 49,425
violations : 48

Poor reading comprehension skills.

There were 48 violations in Fine's initial audit. The article does not say when the initial audit was. There were 49,425 NSLs in 2006. A sampling (not an audit) shows violations in 9.43%.

That would suggest that the number of violations in 2006 was:

9.43% * 49,425 = 4,661 violations

Of course the exact number can not be determined without a full audit.

Lord_Baull: Are these the freedoms the Brown People hate us for?

We have to get rid of them here so we don't lose them there.

milk_plus: Giving them additional powers would seem to be redundant since they do whatever they damn well please anyway. This sort of stuff wont stop until people start going to jail for it.

No. It won't stop until people care enough to do something about the politicians who keep voting for this stuff. As long as we have the 'if you're not doing anything wrong' crowd making excuses then abuses will continue, which we may or may not ever find out about.

/The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were put in place not to protect us from foreign governments but from our own.

milk_plus: IrateShadow: milk_plus: This sort of stuff wont stop until people start going to jail for it.

Yeah, but you can't send anyone to jail when there's a guy in the White House that would have no problem issuing mass pardons.

I that something to address that would be a good amendment to the constitution. I don't think presidents should be able to pardon members of their executive branch. Later presidents should be allowed to pardon the staff of previous administrations but there is just too much room for abuse with the system we have now.


Don't need an amendment. Just get the Supreme Court to say that's what it means. They've gotten pretty good at interpreting it into whatever the hell they want it to say.

Nocens:

Don't need an amendment. Just get the Supreme Court to say that's what it means. They've gotten pretty good at interpreting it into whatever the hell they want it to say.

I think the founding fathers had this idea that we would have people with knowledge and integrity on the supreme court.

Now you can't get an appointment to the court unless the president knows and approves in advance of how you will decide things.

So we get nominations like Harriet Miers.

Then they have to hide their true beliefs from congress.

Who cares what Inspector Gadget thinks?

Everyone knows it's Penny and that damn dog who solve everything anyway. THAT'S who they need to worry about.



/Oh, and Dr. Klaw says "Hi".

I do everything wrong and have everything to worry about

/all my secrets are mine... MINE, I SAY!

Ok, so am I the only one who first read that headling as "Inspector Gadget"??

Cause I found that more amusing.

/go go gadget shoes!
//go go gadget slashies?

Just more of the same with the Bush Admin.

/still ashamed to be an American

bacccc: /still ashamed to be an American

Think that's bad? I gotta put up with all the assholes who think he's from Texas.

/there's no place in the world further from Texas than New Haven, CT

GaryPDX: If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

If you feel that way, you should post your home porno tapes and we'll TELL you if you're doing anything wrong.

Right? I mean, since privacy is worthless, right?

GWLush: What happened to the Republican Mantra of less government interference into our public lives? Smaller government?

They got firmly into power themselves? That seems to shut that sort of noise up pretty damn fast, I've noticed.

GaryPDX: Nice one. I lol'd.

Burn98:
That would suggest that the number of violations in 2006 was:

9.43% * 49,425 = 4,661 violations

Of course the exact number can not be determined without a full audit.

Not to mention that even one violation is too many. 4,000+ is insane.

Holey Cow!

My snark was magically effective. Sorry I missed the free for all.