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Comment Re:Slippery Slope (Score 3, Insightful) 138

Uhh... I read it

Reuters revealed that the Special Operations Division (SOD) of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration advises DEA agents to practice parallel construction when creating criminal cases against Americans that are actually based on NSA warrantless surveillance

And the sited article:

http://www.reuters.com/article...

Of course two senior DEA agents said your quote, so it must all be hogwash.

Comment Re:Biologically feasible? (Score 1) 330

at the current rate of warming will have to take place within the 1-200 year period we may still have left to resolve the most devastating consequences that will almost certainly cause human extinction.

If the worst case predictions happen the earth will not support more than a small fraction of the 7 Billion people, but certain human extinction? Tone it down a little. Life and certainly a number of humans will survive, the earth has been through much worse changes.

Comment Re: AKA "Stealing from citizens program" (Score 3, Interesting) 232

Also, this says nothing about seizures by federal level law enforcement. FBI, DEA, DHS can still seize all they want. and I wouldn't be surprised if all this means is that the same assets will be seized by local law enforcement without due process, the Feds just keep it all.

Comment Re:Idiotic (Score 4, Insightful) 591

If you can get an appeal. If the evidence against you wasn't fabricated or "overstated".

I can confidently say that there are crimes so horrible that the death penalty is appropriate for. The problem is you can't undo the punishment if the criminal justice system is found to have made a mistake. How do you objectively measure the level of perceived doubt of guilt between McVeigh and the innocent individuals who have likely been executed? Until we can prosecute with 100% certainty, I can't support executing a convicted criminal.

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