Chomsky, "Obama determined to demolish the foundations of our civil liberties."

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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,746
    Okay, I had to laugh.
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    I'm saddened to see someone thinks this is a joke.
  • Not trying to sound like a Bush hater, but the NSA was started under him. However, Obama should be ashamed of himself to continue the act when he said it was wrong before being elected.

    However, I don't think he is "determined to demolish the foundations of our civil liberties," nor do I think Bush was.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,459
    a conservative agreeing with something written by chomsky??? usually they are trying to discredit him. maybe there is some common ground somewhere afterall.

    my head is spinning,,,,i think i am going to go lay down now....

    ;)
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Actually Truman started the NSA, and gimme I am no conservative. Our common ground is Libertarianism.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,459
    anti immigration, pro gun, anti tax, those are part of the republican party platform.

    just sayin, man.
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Democrats used to be for personal liberty prior to Obama, i.e. Dennis Kucinich.

    I also don't believe that the GOP is anti-immigration, there are some that are anti-illegal immigration however many are pushing for reform now.
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Libertarians: Keeping Republicans out of your bedroom and Democrats out of your wallet.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,459
    dennis kucinich was a minority in the democratic party long before obama came along. he was a radical lefty in 2000.

    the gop is anti immigration reform. rubio made his proposal last year and the gop turned on him. the texas republican party official platform released this week is clearly anti immigration. rick perry supports giving in state tuition to kids of illegal immigrants, and he is paying the price politically for that support.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,459
    the only reason kucinich lost in ohio was due to jerrymandering of the districts.
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  • unsung
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    I certainly would not have agreed with everything Dennis Kucinich did or was for but he wouldn't have been happy with this NSA garbage.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,676
    Some how I don't think Obama or republicans in general or democrats in general or libertarians in general are in favor of a wide-sweeping elimination of personal liberties. It seems to me that in general republicans are against removing the liberty to own and carry guns almost anywhere and against taxation of almost any form. The democrats generally are against removing the liberty to smoke weed and enjoy state and national parks. And libertarians generally are against removing the liberty to do anything they want to. Yes, I am generalizing, but generally speaking I think what I'm saying is true.
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  • Halifax2TheMax
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    unsung said:

    I'm saddened to see someone thinks this is a joke.

    What made me laugh was your selective editing of the linked article's by line. Very Breitbartish and Infowarsish of you. Still funnier was your use of Obama in your headline but a minute mention of him by name in the article you linked to, in the context of the president with a direct link to the NSA's servers in Utah, personally selecting individuals for closer scrutiny, ruin or for shipping off to GITMO I suppose?

    Too funny. Thanks for the laugh.

    Peace.

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  • unsung said:

    Actually Truman started the NSA, and gimme I am no conservative. Our common ground is Libertarianism.

    You're right. I was referring to all the recent hardcore-spying stuff.

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  • cincybearcat
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    anti immigration, pro gun, anti tax, those are part of the republican party platform.

    just sayin, man.

    Just saying there are only 2 choices?

    What if you are anti-immigration, anti-gun, and anti-tax?

    Or pro-immigration, pro-gun, and pro-tax?
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  • Halifax2TheMax
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    Or pro-immigration, pro-gun, and pro-tax?

    Black Panther Party? I'm sure there's a political party out there somewhere that espouses those views. I always enjoy seeing the really obscure parties that make the ballot in my state. Cool Moose Party ran Robert Healy for Lieutenant Governor on a platform of eliminating the office. Ran for governor once or twice as well. Might do so again this time around.

    Peace.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,676

    Or pro-immigration, pro-gun, and pro-tax?

    Black Panther Party? I'm sure there's a political party out there somewhere that espouses those views. I always enjoy seeing the really obscure parties that make the ballot in my state. Cool Moose Party ran Robert Healy for Lieutenant Governor on a platform of eliminating the office. Ran for governor once or twice as well. Might do so again this time around.

    Peace.

    Wow- sorry to side-track here briefly but my reaction to this was "Whoa! Does the Black Panther organization still exist? Well, they do and sort of shame on me for not knowing that. I lived in the Bay Area during the hey day of the Panthers and those were some heavy duty cats. Never had a problem with them myself- most of what they did made sense to me back then. I also thought the black and brown stamps were cool.

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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487

    anti immigration, pro gun, anti tax, those are part of the republican party platform.

    just sayin, man.

    Just saying there are only 2 choices?

    What if you are anti-immigration, anti-gun, and anti-tax?

    Or pro-immigration, pro-gun, and pro-tax?


    What if you are pro legal immigration but anti illegal immigration?
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487

    Or pro-immigration, pro-gun, and pro-tax?

    Black Panther Party? I'm sure there's a political party out there somewhere that espouses those views. I always enjoy seeing the really obscure parties that make the ballot in my state. Cool Moose Party ran Robert Healy for Lieutenant Governor on a platform of eliminating the office. Ran for governor once or twice as well. Might do so again this time around.

    Peace.

    Actually many states have done away with Lt Gov, it is a waste of money.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,459

    anti immigration, pro gun, anti tax, those are part of the republican party platform.

    just sayin, man.

    Just saying there are only 2 choices?

    What if you are anti-immigration, anti-gun, and anti-tax?

    Or pro-immigration, pro-gun, and pro-tax?
    the official republican party platform is all of the things that i have listed. they update their platform every year, and 2014 official party platform is no different.

    even after the "2012 autopsy" they are doing the exact opposite of what their autopsy said that they need to do to be more appealing to more people.
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    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."