December 2011
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“If President Obama signs this bill, it will damage both his legacy and...”
– Laura W. Murphy, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office in a statement released yesterday It’s pretty bad that our government in 2011 is reacting to an attack over 10 years ago to a degree that was deemed excessive even during the McCarthy era. That bill, of course, was the 1950...
Dec 16th
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Obama to sign indefinite detention bill into law
artivista: In one of the least surprising developments imaginable, President Obama – after spending months threatening to veto the Levin/McCain detention bill – yesterday announced that he would instead sign it into law (this is the same individual, of course, who unequivocally vowed when seeking the Democratic nomination to support a filibuster of “any bill that includes retroactive immunity...
Dec 16th
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DOD thinks that protests are... →
Under the NDAA legislation, protesters could legally be held indefinitely as terrorists. 
Dec 16th
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Hello all.
I haven’t logged into this account in months. But I’m here to tell you I’m PISSED about NDAA and SOPA, and you should be too.  Occupy was great, but if you think things have changed, I have four words for you. Wake the fuck up.
Dec 16th
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