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• On the post: Tiffany Learns, Yet Again, That eBay Is Not Responsible For Users Selling Counterfeit Items

  

  DJ ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2010 @ 05:47pm

  Governments should sue themselves

  By Tiffany's logic, state and local governments should sue themselves for millions of dollars.
  After all, they're the ones who paved the roads on which drivers commit countless traffic offenses every day.

• On the post: Court Says President Bush Violated Wiretapping Laws With Warrantless Wiretap

  

  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 02:03pm

  Re: HA If only the American People New...

  "Government has done stuff like this since the beginning of time"
  
  There was a brief 100-150 year stint, here in America, when this sort of thing didn't happen. That's the first time in history when a government was, at least mostly, free from corruption. This country became more powerful than ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN HISTORY -- possible exception of Roman Empire, but that was wrought with corruption -- and we did it in, relatively speaking, the blink of an eye.
  So let's see:
  First system of government to reach power WITHOUT suprressing it's people
  or
  S.O.S
  Which would you rather have?

• On the post: Court Says President Bush Violated Wiretapping Laws With Warrantless Wiretap

  

  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 01:55pm

  Re: Re: Re: the Bush Administration

  That too.

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  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 01:53pm

  Re: Re:

  Absolutely!
  "EVERYONE deserves to be treated fairly by our Justice System. And NOBODY, not even the President, is above following those rules."
  
  "a nation of laws and not of men" -- John Adams (couldn't find the whole quote, sorry)
  
  
  Be careful to whom you assign the term "everyone", though. While the Declaration of Independence does state "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights", the United States Constitution applies to legal citizens of these united States only (I'm going back to the plural, since the singular is corrupted). And no I don't want to start debating immigration. That ball of wax is f'd up too, though.

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  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 01:39pm

  Re: the Bush Administration

  Love the metaphor. Unfortunately the hangover doesn't start until the drinking stops.......
  We're still drinking, we just switched the liquor for beer (or vice-versa, not sure which).

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  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 01:36pm

  Re: Re: Namby Pamby

  too true.
  (see Patrick Henry quote below)

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  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 01:35pm

  Re: Re:

  Or how about this one:
  
  Give me liberty or give me death!
  --Patrick Henry

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  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 01:33pm

  Re:

  !!!!!NO!!!!!!
  
  Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve NEITHER liberty NOR safety.
  -- Benjamin Franklin

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  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 01:30pm

  Re: Re: Watch it!

  "...the Obama administration continued to support the Bush's administration's position...."
  
  "And the new president still doesn't think that the old president did anything wrong...."
  
  Holy crap! are you suggesting that the two are different in chosen party affiliation only? No......... gee who'd've thought that?
  (I'd sign off my sarcasm, but I'm not really all that sarcastic here)

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  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 01:24pm

  Re: Re: Common Sense

  "Yeah, George Washington was big on legit wiretapping."
  
  Hey good job on failing to realize that the Founders intentionally wrote the Constitution with progress of technology in mind so that the document would still apply even to technology that wasn't even dreamt of in their time.
  Just thought you needed a little positive discouragement.

• On the post: Columnist Claims Anonymity Is Bad For Our Country

  

  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 12:44pm

  Re: Re: Anonymity is bad for ...

  *Independence

• On the post: Columnist Claims Anonymity Is Bad For Our Country

  

  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 12:43pm

  Re: Anonymity is bad for ...

  Wholeheartedly disagree.
  
  This country wouldn't even exist if people had been afraid to stand up to an oppressive government. The Federalist Papers and, subsequently, the Bill of Rights to the Constitution were written specifically to prevent that situation.
  Or was the Declaration of Indepence not self-evident to you?

• On the post: Columnist Claims Anonymity Is Bad For Our Country

  

  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 12:36pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  You know our world is "ficked up" when people start bashing someone without realizing that they actually agree with EVERYTHING that person talks about.
  
  {I dare you to actually WATCH a show with an open mind}

• On the post: Columnist Claims Anonymity Is Bad For Our Country

  

  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 12:33pm

  Re:

  Mao Tse Tung and Joseph Stalin both committed attrocities that make Adolf Hitler look like a schoolyard bully.
  
  "They must not be teaching these historical trivialities"

• On the post: Columnist Claims Anonymity Is Bad For Our Country

  

  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 12:31pm

  Re: yep

  I agree with your attitude overall, but...
  Interesting thing about free speech: you have the right to rant and rave about stupid shit all day long if you want. So I wouldn't dare go so far as to brand someone a traitor for exercising their rights.
  And while the emotional rhetorical reference to WWII hits home, I must point out that here we are on the doorstep of all those things, because too many Americans have flat FORGOTTEN the events that occurred only 60 years ago.

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  DJ ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 12:20pm

  Re: Re:

  and that, my friends, is what we call a "sound analogy"

• On the post: Google Sued For Using The Term 'Gadgets'; Tiny Company Afraid People Will Think They Support Google

  

  DJ ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2010 @ 03:59pm

  Re: Re: Re: ?

  I was about to say that Google should get in with Joss Whedon and counter-sue Firefly....

• On the post: North Face Lawyers Try To Drag South Butt Family Through The Mud

  

  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 03:39pm

  Re: the South Butt Family

  I don't follow South Park, but has there not been an episode about this yet???

• On the post: North Face Lawyers Try To Drag South Butt Family Through The Mud

  

  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 03:37pm

  Re: Dang

  ...and buy as much South Butt as possible.
  
  Reverse Streisand effect, anyone?

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  DJ ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 03:35pm

  Re: @4

  "TEAR DOWN THE WALL!"

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