XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns
From: dead@gone.com
On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:29:28 -0500, RD Sandman wrote:
> Jeanne Douglas wrote in
> news:hlwdjsd2-5C4358.20405221052013@news.giganews.com:
>
>> 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 And the Patriot Act really needs to be repealed.
>>
>>
> That will have to be Obama to do it, Bush isn't there anymore.
Maybe the House GOP could stop fucking around with mindless Obamacare
votes and vote to repeal the act.
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