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Comment preview: No, not at all. > The assault on the Liberty is well documented. With no warning, the Liberty was attacked by successive waves of unmarked jets using cannon, rockets and napalm. The attacking jets jammed all of the US communications frequencies, an indi ....
Comment preview: Are you sure? Consider this... When Israel destroyed the USS Liberty during the six day war: " Audio tapes obtained by award winning British film maker Richard Belfield prove what every USS Liberty survivor, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and former ....
Comment preview: Mr. Holt, please answer this question. There are a lot of us who are grateful for your upcoming legislation to fight domestic surveillance, BUT it's clear that you don't truly support our civil liberties. Every single amendment found in our Bill of Rights ....
Comment preview: When Bush Jr. was President there were mass liberal war protests. There were protests to close Gitmo. He was being called another Hitler on a daily basis. The Patriot Act is seen as an ultimate attack on our liberties. Now that Obama has been in power, he ....
Comment preview: > They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin. When discussing the likes of this, body scanners, digital eavesdropping, etc. I often encounter intelligent, rational ....
Comment preview: [**The USS Liberty Attack Explained in Detail by CIA Officer Ray McGovern**](http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1f8_1244367256) [**Affidavit of Ward Boston, chief counsel to the Navy s Court of Inquiry into the attack on USS Liberty**](http://www.counterpunch. ....
Comment preview: I normally take these headlines with a grain of salt. They normally twist words into something extreme. However in this case... >"I want to commend Governor Mike Pence for his support of religious freedom, especially in the face of fierce opposition. Th ....
Comment preview: I don't know guise. Maybe we should rethink this Iran deal. NYT and Israeli officials seem to have an issue with it according to this New York Times piece- [NYT link](http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/05/world/iran-may-be-able-build-atomic-bomb-5-years-us- ....
Comment preview: I really appreciated your concise insight. "Terrorist", the name applied to people or groups, when the government is attempting to garner support for military intervention. A Muslim is not a terrorist. but a terrorist can follow any number of ideologies. ....
Comment preview: My first major reform would be to exempt the copyright monopoly from all noncommercial use. It would only cover commercial activity. This would stop the attacks on our civil liberties dead in the water, as it is the encroachment on noncommercial space from ....
Comment preview: This is (almost!) every departure and a few arrivals at LAX's south complex yesterday. I spent almost the whole day there and another eight or so hours in photoshop putting this all together. I took some artistic liberty with the angles of attack to make ....
Comment preview: > This is a perfect demonstration of how government incrementalism consumes individual rights. This is a perfect demonstration of how we're a bunch of fucking morons who fall for every god damned obvious trick in the book. People were warning immediatel ....
Comment preview: The USS Liberty was an american flagged cargo ship. At top speed it could go about 10MPH. It was american flagged, It didn't have a profile that looked anything like any egyptian ship. They claimed that it was an egyptian ship that had moved about 500 mi ....
Comment preview: **Terrorism isn't a threat to our liberty.** It's a threat to our *lives,* which is not the same thing. We choose, as a nation, how we want to react to terrorism, and the proper response is *not* to panic and throw away our civil rights. Terrorism caused f ....
Comment preview: The entire Liberty Prime [spoiler](#s "attack from the Citadel to the Jefferson Memorial was a crowning moment of awesome for Fallout 3. Everything I'd done up to that point, very sewer I'd investigated, every hive of raiders strewn with body parts on hook ....
Comment preview: Oh fuck off with your damn commie bullshit. These so-called 'CIA sponsored coups' aren't done with the interests of these wall street banks in mind. How the fuck would they benefit? It's for the political benefit of the 'murican government. Homeland securi ....
Comment preview: According to the new DHS report*, the following are some of the beliefs and ideologies of American terrorists.... "fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)" "anti-global" "suspicious of centralized federal authorit ....
Comment preview: Better than this actually. If it was a public school, then you could argue a host of constitutional claims arguing that the school was an arm of the state. Furthermore, there is a constitutional requirement for due process when there is a deprivation of li ....
Comment preview: **Ben Bailey:** A gift from France to the United States, the Statue of Liberty was completed in what year? **Tracy:** Come on, I don t know that! **Ben Bailey:** You ve got 15 seconds or you re out of the cab. **Tracy:** Okay. I remember going to the Statu ....
Comment preview: I take offense when you guys are offended by even thinking that liberties will be in danger. >Nope, we gotta mourn guys! Can't think about this until it's happening. Gotta mourn and be sad with the rest of the lot and emotional. I take offense to that * ....
Comment preview: No, it couldn't have been a common street mugging. A uniformed and presumably armed soldier on patrol with two other soldiers is not the kind of individual targeted for mugging. Mugging victims are almost always soft targets, clearly not the case with an o ....
Comment preview: I was really mad when, as my USAF unit was rotating out from [Sather AB](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sather_Air_Base) at BIAP, he attributed our safety during our rotation to "God's shield of protection" over our installation. Instead of, you know, the Ar ....
Comment preview: First of all, just because there are more car accidents than murders in America doesn't mean that we should care about car accidents more than murders. We already have quite tough regulations on the manufacturing of cars, on the use of alcohol while drivin ....
Comment preview: I think the first thing that we have to do is recognize that we don't have a two party system. I sort of kid about this by saying that we have a one party system, and someday I'm hoping for a second party! Because my experience in Washington has showed me ....
Comment preview: But it's not even thousands. Take Canada for example. The capital shooter was on a list of 100! If these organizations are in fact so inept that they can't keep eyes on 100 people then no, the balance between liberty and security is not justified, because ....
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