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- Camille Paglia: Duck Dynasty Uproar ‘utterly Fascist, Utterly Stalinist’
From the Daily Caller: The suspension of Phil Robertson from A&E’s Duck Dynasty is outrageous in a nation that values freedom, according to social critic and openly gay, dissident feminist Camille Paglia. “I speak with authority here, because...
- And It Was All Justified And Perfectly Legal
Free Beacon (Gertz):NSA Spied on 124 Billion Phone Calls in One MonthTallies of top-secret documents show widespread data collectionThe National Security Administration recorded information about more than 124 billion phone calls during a 30-day period...
- The One Where The Democrats And Politico Think They Are Damaging Boehner And Mcconnell As Duplicitous Cynics
Let me preface this by saying I am no Tea Party aficionado. Time spent involved there reveals that outside of the twin issues of financial responsibility (which, btw does not HAVE to mean some crazy austerity either) and adherence to the founding document(s),...
- How Do You Get Someone To Take A Look?
I remember listening to a recording of a humorous speaker using the analogy of a guy who slowly loses his hair until he has only one hair left on his head. He shampoos that hair and combs it lovingly every day. But one morning when he wakes up, he looks...
- What Should The Role Of The Irs Be In Regulating Non Profits?
Almost nothing.The IRS should ONLY take founding paperwork which asserts no profit will be held for distribution to officers and workers.Any other involvement WILL abridge freedoms outlined in the Bill of Rights. SOONER OR LATER. By one party or the...
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Even if THIS admin can show the UTILITY of the galactic data mine, is it PERMISSIBLE?
Suppose they can prove 3 terrorist attacks were prevented becuase the NSA/FBI/CIA/IRS/HSD got a ping that lead to something.
Take party out of this, because this is about HUMAN WEAKNESSES.
We have SEEN political beliefs used as the basis for repression, and suppression of free speech IN THIS NATION this year. Whether or not this is new ground certainly at the very least we can say a precedent has been set. Each transgression becomes easier.
If the IRS cannot BELIEVE that some 501c application is up to their political criteria, and they have no proof of lies by the applicant (even though they have already probed his or her beliefs, religion, alliances, friends and anus) is there anyone who thinks that a REGULATION would stop a zealous agent from ATTEMPTING to get the cell phone tower information of the applicant to compare to say known Tea Party ‘extremists’ (in their view)? Or turn that and and one day have some self righteous right wing zealot do the same thing to see if the applicant is consorting with the #occupy left edge of the Center for American Progress?
People who both believe they are right, and blessed with the proper thought, and who have the power to act on it for a while have a very different frame of reference. These people are the political class. Left and right do not matter.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
It is my judgment that NO govt of a free people, can EVER be allowed to gather this kind of information, and the degree to which they both defend this effort, and attempt to keep it secret defines how urgently it must be stopped and the information destroyed IF POSSIBLE.
Party, and left or right are irrelevant.
Never mind of course, that all this is ILLEGAL SEARCH AND SEIZURE.
I don’t remember the opt in check box.
Do you?
- Camille Paglia: Duck Dynasty Uproar ‘utterly Fascist, Utterly Stalinist’
From the Daily Caller: The suspension of Phil Robertson from A&E’s Duck Dynasty is outrageous in a nation that values freedom, according to social critic and openly gay, dissident feminist Camille Paglia. “I speak with authority here, because...
- And It Was All Justified And Perfectly Legal
Free Beacon (Gertz):NSA Spied on 124 Billion Phone Calls in One MonthTallies of top-secret documents show widespread data collectionThe National Security Administration recorded information about more than 124 billion phone calls during a 30-day period...
- The One Where The Democrats And Politico Think They Are Damaging Boehner And Mcconnell As Duplicitous Cynics
Let me preface this by saying I am no Tea Party aficionado. Time spent involved there reveals that outside of the twin issues of financial responsibility (which, btw does not HAVE to mean some crazy austerity either) and adherence to the founding document(s),...
- How Do You Get Someone To Take A Look?
I remember listening to a recording of a humorous speaker using the analogy of a guy who slowly loses his hair until he has only one hair left on his head. He shampoos that hair and combs it lovingly every day. But one morning when he wakes up, he looks...
- What Should The Role Of The Irs Be In Regulating Non Profits?
Almost nothing.The IRS should ONLY take founding paperwork which asserts no profit will be held for distribution to officers and workers.Any other involvement WILL abridge freedoms outlined in the Bill of Rights. SOONER OR LATER. By one party or the...