OOH! OOH! The Apprentice is on!
- Jim
Angel Stewart wrote:
>Why does this surprise anyone?
>America is well on the way to being a police state.
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>It's citizens have already ceded their rights to Privacy, and that's the beginning of the end.
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>How many Americans really care about this? My guess is not many.
>Not many understand the implications of it.
>They are still being smothered in the soft wolly comfort that they are all good people so they have nothing to fear.
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>Not enough cared about the Patriot Act to protest and have it changed, only now are some portions being challenged in the Supreme
>Court.
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>Just as not enough care (according to the polls we outside the US see) to remove the incumbent from office in reaction to the
>developments over a botched war, botched intelligence, proven by embarrassing apologies by members of the Administration ; a war
>that has cost the lives of hundreds of Americans, whilst other countries in the region clearly pose(d) a far far greater threat.
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>Americans just don't seem to care enough about America anymore.
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>The government has successfully managed to sap the will of the people to their own liberty. The Patriot ACt should have brought such
>a wicked backlash that the Bush Administration, and indeed the American Congress, should have leapt back quickly with stung hands.
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>But it didn't.
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>It was emboldened to seek access to Internet Records, Medical Records, School records you name it and all without judicial review.
>There seem to be a few organisations still struggling against the tide, but sadly these people seem to be a minority. The majority
>couldn't seem to care less.
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>It's always a struggle between government and the people in any country I think,democracy only works if you have a thinking public
>that cares about their country, but it's chilling to see it happen so quickly in America. The voices that raise in defiance of these
>acts and new laws are derided by the US public as being unpatriotic at worst and at best deluded pacifists.
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>9/11 really did change everything.
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>-Gel
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sam Morris
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>http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=37641
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>WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Association
>of American Physicians and Surgeons issued the
>following statement by it General Counsel, Andrew
>Schlafly, in reaction to the decision issued today by
>the District Court of Appeals, Fourth District,
>Florida, in the matter of Rush Limbaugh v. the State
>of Florida regarding the release of his medical
>records. The AAPS filed an amicus curiae brief in that
>case.
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