So you admit it's something you *want* to believe in and facts don't matter. How do you expect people to take you seriously? Just out of curiosity, was integrity not part of the family values you were raised with?
Have you scrutinized this source and looked at evidence that counters it? Or do facts not matter? I'm trying to help you find some integrity within yourself. Are you resistant to integrity?
I think 9/11 is way over hyped. Sure it sucked for the people who got killed, or who's families got killed, but theres people dying all over the world everyday for reasons that are unfair. A person living in the western world statistically has more chances of being killed by a bee sting than a terrorist attack. For that reason bills like the patriot act and similar act's passed in the UK, Australia etc which impeach on peoples civil liberties are unjustfied.
Opinions are a dime a dozen. They have more impact when they can be supported. What civil liberties do you believe you have lost? Obviously you are posting, so you haven't lost anything important.
Is this the same echelon put in place under the Clinton administration? The question still stands...What civil liberties do you believe you have lost?
What civil liberties do you believe anyone has lost? It seems like a practical and fair question. If you are sure they are being lost, surely you would know some (any?) that are being lost in order to forumlate such a view? Or do facts not matter? Can we get an integrity check here?
Ofcourse. Post patriot act, residents of the US have lost significant rights related to the fundamental civil liberty of privacy. The patriot act Allows law enforcement to conduct secret searches, perform roving wiretaps, and gain access to highly personal medical, financial, mental health, and student records. Authorizes law enforcement officials to force librarians and booksellers to hand over book check-out and internet use records. Allows FBI agents to investigate citizens for criminal activity without probable cause if they say it is for "intelligence purposes". Allows law enforcement to search a person's home without anyone present and to delay notification indefinitely. Further reading: http://www.amnestyusa.org/waronterror/patriotact/ Ofcourse GTech the average citizen or immigrant may not even be aware of this but the provisions are in place.
Have you read the actual patriot act instead of a blog that makes their own interpretations? Again, I ask: What civil liberties do you believe anyone has lost? Surely someone knows of a civil liberty they have lost?
That's amnesty international's official United States website. If you are looking for a personal testimony, I do not have one & am glad about that. BTW, here is the patriot act. I look forward to your "interpretations"
And that means something to me because ____________________? No, I'm simply asking you or AGS (neither of whom reside in the US) to indentify what civil liberties do you believe have been lost? After asking half a dozen times now, with no response, I can only conclude that you really don't know how to answer what should be very obvious to someone that espouses civil liberties have been lost, as if to signify that you really somehow care. This further concludes what I initially suspected...facts do not matter. If you can find a lost civil liberty in order to trash another's country for which you apparently have no clue, please let me know. Thanks!
What are you blind? What do those points in bullets look like if not identifications of lost civil liberties? http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=1513371&postcount=233 Because the organization has been awarded the nobel peace prize & is globally recognized. Maybe you don't care about that.
Your bulleted points are not civil liberties. You need to refer to the actual patriot act. You will let me know, when you find lost civil liberties? Here's a hint...take the Constitution and match it up with the Patriot Act and let me know what you come up with. You are not the first to lose at this game. Others before you (mostly anti-Americans that pretend to care) have offered that civil liberties are lost. But no one ever produces any. Perhaps you could be the first, all the way from India?
I am not here to teach you the alphabet and spoonfeed you information. I provided you a link to the patriot act and you may look it up yourself. Your pretentiously victorious post above holds no weight, it is the classic example of a non sequitur. Despite points & references being cited, you continue to refuse to acknowledge or address them.
I thought we were discussing demolition firms, not media. That's a big difference. I believe there's a big UFO in your ass, but that's just my opinion. I don't think my view is less realistic than yours.