On 8/17/2012 2:08 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Just Wondering wrote:
On 8/17/2012 12:49 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Scott Lurndal wrote:
Tim Daneliuk writes:
On 08/17/2012 11:42 AM, Han wrote:
I don't think that (much as I'd want to) we can overturn the
SCOTUS decision that corporations are people (which I disagree
with, as previously noted, but it is now the law of the land). But it
isn't right that people can freely associate in claok and
dagger groups that don't reveal their identity.
So now you don't think we have a natural right to privacy? I hate
to tell you this, but the cornerstone of any despotic dictatorship
is remove said privacy and thereby force people to either lie or
openly state their opposition to the regime so they can either be
"reeducated"
or "removed". Privacy is pretty important. If you don't think so,
imagine being forced to vote where everyone could see your choices
... say like the pigs in the various unions want...
Absolutely agreed. Too bad that the Bush administration put into
place so many illegal surveillance programs on americans. Not that
the current administration has eliminated them - which is one of the
few things they've done wrong.
Here, here! As republican as I can be at times, that whoe Patriot
Act thing was a legal abomination. Sadly, too many feel good people
in this country fell prey to the impact of 911 and forgot to get up
in arms about that thing.

Probably because it had no noticeable impact on most people.
Yet...

The worst part about a law is not always what it has done, but what it can
do.

Which is partly why we need the Second Amendment.