Hawkeye-X
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Sun Jun-14-09 01:14 PM
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Patriot Act - why isn't Obama using it? |
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To collar the domestic terrorists that have been prominent as of late?
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ZombieHorde
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Sun Jun-14-09 01:34 PM
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1. I believe some aspects of the Patriot Act involve communications |
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between the different intelligence agencies. He may be using this aspect to help combat domestic terrorists.
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Cirque du So-What
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Sun Jun-14-09 01:36 PM
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2. How do we know he's not? |
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If I were using all the tools available, I wouldn't go broadcasting the fact! Let the nutjobs think I'm flailing about cluelessly.
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JustinL
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Sun Jun-14-09 01:52 PM
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3. hopefully, because he takes his oath of office seriously |
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The Patriot Act needs to be repealed.
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indepat
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Sun Jun-14-09 02:39 PM
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4. 'cause this nation has yet to come to grips with the fact that RW domestic terrorism is pure de |
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terrorism in any classical sense of the term, the embodiment of the enemy within that the Framers had in mind when speaking of the enemy within, to wit: the public has been brainwashed into the belief that anything liberal is bad and un-American whereas anything right wing is good and reichously godly. :P
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Sun Jun-14-09 02:39 PM
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Why isn't he losing it, and restoring civil liberties?
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Sun Jun-14-09 02:52 PM
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6. Because it's a reprehensible piece of knee-jerk legislation.. |
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..that should have never made it out of the mind of the most authoritarian, right wing, paranoid legislator?
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