XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc   
   From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-29 12:10:14 +0000, Chris Ahlstrom said:   
      
   > Polluted Pup wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
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   >> On 12/25/25 7:11 PM, Governor Swill wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:16:43 -0800, Pluted Pup    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> As for the thread title, leftists have been promoting   
   >>>> dragnet surveillance of cities in America and the UK and   
   >>>> around the world by claiming the only thing wrong with it   
   >>>> is because it might be used by immigration enforcement.   
   >>>   
   >>> Two words:  "Patriot Act"   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> And?  Are you suggesting that the Patriot Act is somehow   
   >> incompatible with dragnet surveillance?  It is essentially   
   >> the same thing.  In both cases the Left promoted it by   
   >> claiming it would stop crime, and logically would have it to   
   >> be an empowering boon to the average man.  Actually the   
   >> surveillance dragnets are intended to hurt the average   
   >> person and so serve that politically repressive purpose.   
   >   
   > The Left?   
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   >     The growing surveillance state in the U.S. is far worse than   
   >     you imagined   
   >   
   >     Through court battles, legal loopholes, executive orders, and   
   >     shady contracts, the Trump administration preempts legal   
   >     challenges and crushes the safeguards protecting privacy   
   >     rights and due process   
   >   
   >     President Donald Trump is taking decisive steps to crush   
   >     administrative safeguards and preempt legal challenges,   
   >     allowing his administration to rapidly consolidate a   
   >     surveillance state with diminished privacy rights. Aided by   
   >     recent Supreme Court decisions, Republican lawmakers, and   
   >     quickly eroding due process rights, the administration is   
   >     ensuring that the data and sensitive information of each   
   >     person in the U.S. can be used against them.   
   >   
   >     To achieve this, the administration has been working   
   >     diligently to interconnect the data hosted by all levels of   
   >     government, including Democratic states and local law   
   >     enforcement agencies, while also contesting lawsuits for   
   >     privacy violations in courts across the country. In some   
   >     instances, the administration appears to be violating federal   
   >     privacy regulations, and it is already divulging sensitive   
   >     data. Medicare and Medicaid handed over personal data of   
   >     millions of enrollees in sanctuary states and cities—including   
   >     California, Washington state, Illinois, and Washington,   
   >     D.C.—to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which also   
   >     struck a deal with the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) to   
   >     access addresses of taxpayers, many of whom are undocumented   
   >     immigrants who pay billions of dollars in taxes each year.   
      
   Dubya, Cheney and their Republican flying monkeys in congress came up   
   with the so-called Patriot Act, Orwellian-named so no one would dare   
   object.   
      
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