XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   From: bassist@bass.gov   
      
   "Zepp"  wrote in message news:knij3v$pbb$7@dont-email.me...   
      
   On Tue, 21 May 2013 23:07:48 -0700, Jeanne Douglas wrote:   
      
   > In article , Zepp  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 21 May 2013 20:40:54 -0700, Jeanne Douglas wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > In article ,   
   >> >  Tom McDonald  wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >> On 5/21/2013 9:41 PM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   >> >> > Tom McDonald  wrote in   
   >> >> > news:reUmt.11860$v46.8618@newsfe13.iad:   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> >> On 5/21/2013 7:17 PM, Jason wrote:   
   >> >>   
   >> >>    
   >> >>   
   >> >> >>> Good point. I hope they have a congressional investigation about   
   >> >> >>> the AP scandal. It's just as serious as the IRS scandal.   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> Someone should write letters to Holder and Obama and remind them   
   >> >> >>> that the constitution mentions freedom of the press. Perhaps   
   >> >> >>> they have forgotten about what they learned about the   
   >> >> >>> constitution.   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >> Your problem there is that your guy, Bush2, pushed through the   
   >> >> >> laws that make what happened to the AP entirely legal. You knew   
   >> >> >> that it was legal, right?   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> > So I assume your take is that since Bush did it, it makes it   
   >> >> > alright for Obama to do it?   No chance that both of them are   
   >> >> > wrong?   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> No, my take is that just about all of the laws passed in the   
   >> >> hysteria about terrorism, especially those that restrict   
   >> >> constitutional rights,   
   >> >> are wrong, cowardly and un-American. This is an example of how we   
   >> >> gave up freedom for almost-certainly-illusory security.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Whether it's a Democratic or a Republican administration doing it, I   
   >> >> think it's wrong. Period.   
   >> >   
   >> > And the Patriot Act really needs to be repealed.   
   >>   
   >> Absolutely.   
   >   
   > But it's been in effect for, what 11-12 years already. So I have no   
   > sympathy for anybody just discovering how vile it is now that we have a   
   > black President.   
   >   
   > I was railing against it since before they passed it. I'm really sick of   
   > all the cowards who demanded to have their civil rights taken away all   
   > of a suddent complaining about it.   
      
   Are you out of your mind? I've been fighting the Patriot Act since its   
   inception.   
      
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   Define how and by what measures that YOU personally have been fighting the   
   USA's Patriot Act, you retard.   
      
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