Why the revelations about the FBI spying on domestic groups?

Walt Starr

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:10 AM
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Why the revelations about the FBI spying on domestic groups?

It's an attempt to shore up the base on the domestic spying the NSA did, of course.

The mouth-breathers on the right think it's fine to spy on domestic groups and that the first amendment is meaningless when it comes to people they disagree with.

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:11 AM
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1. They think Quakers are terrible

and horrible militants.

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Walt Starr

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:12 AM
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2. Teh stress is on PETA and the ACLU

which is fine and dandy according to the mouth breathers.

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Dhalgren

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:13 AM
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3. It's the "you're either with us or against us" mentality.

Typical fascism...

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MallRat

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:17 AM
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4. The base won't be big enough to provide cover for Bush...

...if the next obvious development in this story is true: the President must have circumvented the courts to wiretap his political enemies.

You know it, I know it, and everyone can see it coming from a mile away. Dubya pulled a Nixon. It's just a matter of time until we find out the details.

And that's when we'll learn which Republicans are the true conservatives, and which ones are power-hungry cowards.

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lonestarnot

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:18 AM
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5. IMPEACH NOW!

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MuseRider

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:19 AM
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6. So far all the righties I have talked to

have responded with a big old *yawn*. Fine with them. :wtf:

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More Than A Feeling

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:22 AM
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8. "Would you trust Hillary Clinton with this power?"

Bet that gets more than a "yawn".

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bigtree

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:20 AM
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7. But they are also ones to rail on and on about govt, intrusion

into private affairs, I don't think it will give them much comfort that some of the groups that are targets are liberal.

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MadHound

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:22 AM
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9. True that, but one way to shut them up is to threaten them

That Hillary will also have these powers. That's all it takes to get them to change their mind.

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Ganja Ninja

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:36 AM
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10. And to think that only a few years ago they were so ...

mistrustful of government it bordered on full blown paranoia.

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info being

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:44 AM
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11. If only they spied on Churches

Then there would be a problem.

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