Free speech

2008-01-14 22:17:50

#1

CommieChipmunk: Member; +488|7005|Portland, OR, USA

For those turned off by the conspiracy theory music (though I really urge you to watch it before you say anything because I'm not going to explain it in depth) see below:

H.R. 1955 wrote:
Homegrown Terrorism- the term "Homegrown Terrorism" means the use, planned use or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

The operative word being or, as force can be defined as much more than a physical act.

Force Defined (Scroll down and see the definitions in the "American Heritage Dictionary.")

dictionary wrote:
Intellectual power or vigor, especially as conveyed in writing or speech.
Moral strength.

EDIT: and yes, Rosie is in there bitching about the WTCs... ignore it, as we all know there are plenty of other topics out there on the WTCs

Last edited by CommieChipmunk (2008-01-14 22:18:52)

2008-01-14 22:28:03

#2

Mitch: 16 more years; +877|6960|South Florida

So hes basically saying that we can lose our American freedoms?
What else is new

We've been losing our constitutional freedoms since the first laws against guns a while back.

15 more years! 15 more years!

2008-01-14 22:36:42

#3

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7032|Seattle

Don't tase me bro.

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2008-01-14 22:50:42

#4

Catbox: forgiveness; +505|7151

as soon as i saw the idiot professor Ward C... that got fired... i laughed
the guy is a stain... who has lied about his ancestry... plagiarized other peoples stories and art
he justified 9/11
http://www.freecolorado.com/2005/03/liar.html

and Rosie pigf*ck Odonell is worthless and mentally ill...

luckily their credibility is not there and its ridiculed

Last edited by [TUF]Catbox (2008-01-14 22:51:20)

Love is the answer

2008-01-15 02:43:54

#5

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6584|'straya

so Bush is going to declare marshall law remove all ur rights and set up a Dictatorship in America...

Sux2bu

2008-01-15 03:03:14

#6

FEOS: Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate; +1,182|6846|'Murka

the sky is falling!

the sky is falling!

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular

2008-01-15 13:23:36

#7

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,991|7067|949

FEOS wrote:
the sky is falling!

the sky is falling!

COINTELPRO

Also-

Meanwhile, the Washington Post is reporting that the NSA passed on records of intercepted email and phone calls to other government agencies including the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security. This news come on the heels of several other reports that the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, military intelligence and local police departments have all been engaged in monitoring peaceful groups including Greenpeace, PETA–the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Catholic Worker, anti-war groups and even bicyclists in New York City. During the 1960s and 1970s, the military used NSA intercepts to maintain files on U.S. peace activists. It was this domestic surveillance that led Congress to intervene and pass Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 in order to prevent future such abuses. The statute permits domestic intelligence surveillance with the approval of a court order from the FISA court.

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2008-01-15 13:25:53

#8

usmarine: Banned; +2,785|7197

That was terrible. Why has youtube become a vehicle for such crap?

Last edited by usmarine2005 (2008-01-15 13:26:14)

2008-01-15 13:46:41

#9

SenorToenails: Veritas et Scientia; +444|6565|North Tonawanda, NY

usmarine2005 wrote:
That was terrible. Why has youtube become a vehicle for such crap?

My thoughts exactly.

I like how they keep substituting their new definition of "force" into the bill wording and ignoring the other important piece: "to intimidate or coerce".

2008-01-15 13:47:37

#10

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,991|7067|949

Glad you guys didn't like the video. What did you think about the implications?

2008-01-15 14:13:05

#11

SenorToenails: Veritas et Scientia; +444|6565|North Tonawanda, NY

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
Glad you guys didn't like the video. What did you think about the implications?

Yes, I believe that our freedoms are slowly being taken away by the 'threat' of terrorism. But I think that the video is purely alarmist propaganda.

They said that the crap Rosie says could be outlawed with this bill? Well, I don't see what she said that "intimidates or coerces" any part of America.

2008-01-15 15:42:07

#12

HollisHurlbut: Member; +51|6433

SenorToenails wrote:
They said that the crap Rosie says could be outlawed with this bill? Well, I don't see what she said that "intimidates or coerces" any part of America.

Not to mention that even if we went by their parsing of the bill's text, she's still safe because nothing that woman spews from her rugmuncher could possibly considered "intellectually powerful" or "a logical argument."

I stopped watching after the Bill O'Reilly montage. I seriously doubt that segment was an accurate representation of O'Reilly's opinions. For one, I remember watching the segment where he talks about the authorities needing to take care of someone, and that was a segment about some looneytunes in San Francisco who invaded a Catholic mass ceremony and were just being asses in general, while the city government was unconcerned about it. Trespass is trespass, no matter what your argument is, logical or otherwise. So I'm reasonably certain the O'Reilly segment was a series of cuts that intentionally distorted his words and purposely made him look bad.

So why should I trust the rest of it?

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