Journal Iamthefallen's Journal: Fake but accurate redux 37
Just this past week there were public reports that a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he had gone to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto. Following his professor's instructions to use original source material, this young man discovered that he, too, was on the government's watch list.
Think of the chilling effect on free speech and academic freedom when a government agent shows up at your home -- after you request a book from the library.
Incredibly, we are now in an era where reading a controversial book may be evidence of a link to terrorists.
Something is amiss here. Something doesn't make sense. We need a thorough and independent investigation of these activities.
The Congress and the American people deserve answers now.
Dec 24, a Kennedy spokeswoman said (Emphasis mine):
Laura Capps, a Kennedy spokeswoman, said last night that the senator cited ''public reports" in his opinion piece. Even if the assertion was a hoax, she said, it did not detract from Kennedy's broader point that the Bush administration has gone too far in engaging in surveillance.
(Mary Jo Kopechne Could Not Be Reached for Comment)
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Laura Bush is a murderer
George W Bush was AWOL
The 2000 Elections were fixed
The 2002 Elections were fixed
The 2004 Elections were fixed
The US went to war with Iraq unilterally
There were NO WMDs
See the beauty is that when they lie about GWB they just keep hammering the same lies over and over and over and over... so do these lies count once or 2160 each - one for each accusation - even the ones that contradict each other?
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Prove he lied. Just bring out the specific proof that when he said waht he said he was lying. Then you know the drill, I'll bring out mounds of _your folks_ saying the exact same things.
The problem with GWB (et al) haters like you is you think saying things over and over lends validitiy to them. So simply prove that the current administration was lying when they said Iraq was a threat and was in possession of, or could make WMDs. Should be easy. I mean, _you know_ it's true. A
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That aside TMP you still can't prove anything. You dumbfuck GWBHs can't ever prove anything. It makes you insane because you "just know" you're "smarter" than him and he kicks your fucking asses every time. I, for one, do like watc
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As for "secret spying" at least the fucker is telling you flat out it's happening. Where's your fucking rage at the shit for brains who leaked THAT? Valerie Plame has your ass in a hornet's nest but this... well it makes Bush look bad, and America look bad so it's good.
I simply dislike YOU more than I disklike Bush.
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CAN YOU PROVE BUSH LIED ABOUT THE WMDs IN IRAQ?
Don't fucking dance on semantics or nuances. We all know the meaing of is. Just answer the fucking question or shut the FUCK up because if you can't answer the question you have nothing.
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No, didn't think so. Now either ask me to defend a position I fucking hold, or piss the fuck off.
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I, personally, set the threshold more in the middle: lying encompasses intentional deception, but it also encompasses intentionally taking a myopic view of things so as to crowd out the reality of the situation. In that sense, Bush almost certainly lied.
Now then, you were going to give me proof... I'm waiting.
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Of course, I fully expect that you remember this the next time one of your children starts trying to play stupid little word games to avoid actually telling the truth since, according to you, they won't be technically lying.
FACT: According to my standards, which you'
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new name, same stupidity...
Hey, but seriously, have a great year.
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None of this "well he didn't tell the truth" crap either. You have to actually prove that he knowingly and intentionally decieved the American people when he went on national TV and stated that he "did not have sexual relations [with Monica Lewinsky]".
I think it's a perf
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Bill Clinton KNEW he had gotten a blowjob, a sexual relation, from ML and then went on Television and said "I did not have sexual relations..."
That was a total, complete, lie he attempted to wiggle out of by inventing new sexual morays and a definition of the word is.
Are you lonely? Do you just need SOMEONE to talk to you?
How about DaVinci Code vs Foucault's Pendulum?
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a) Knew about those definitions and mores
and, more importantly,
b) Shared the same definitions and mores as you.
"Sexual relations", to me, after all, doesn't mean anything particular. In certain conditions it may mean a hand
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I am not now nor have I ever been a Bush Apologist. Just peruse my JEs and you'll see plenty of Bush hatred. I just hate YOU and the Middle East more so if Bush decides to kill you or any denzien of the Middle East I'm not apologizing for him, I'm egging him on.
In any event a Rhodes Scholar certainly knows the social mores of his home country. He lied. You picked a really bad example. Feel free to try again lonely boy.
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You haven't got a goddamn thing to show for your weak apologetics because you know deep down that I'm right, and you're just another one of those fear-filled cowards who hasn't got half a grip on a greased handlebar in the big,
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I grow tired of you. You have done nothing. Moved no one. Answered nothing and, as always, shown yourself to be an ass.
Here's your six pence I'm crossing the bridge.
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No, he's (we're) defending secretly spying on U.S. Citizens (though most are not U.S. Citizens, but legal aliens) without a court order who are making or receiving phone calls from foreign terrorists operating in the middle east. In other words, the NSA doesn't care about all your 1-900 number phone calls, they're not listening. Make a call to Mohammed al-Splodeydope in Afghanistan, and yeah, they're going to listen in orde
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You're assuming Clinton both knew about and used the mores and taboos your ascribing to him and then played dumb? Yea, seems fair. Just as fair as assuming that Bush knew the difference between credible, vetted intel and unvetted hearsay from uncredible expatriots and then ran with the unvetted hearsay rather than listening to the real evidence.
Give it a rest. You apologizing nincompoops aren't smart enough to come up with convincing enough lies to make up fo
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Bush, like previous presidents/administrations bought into the "Iraq Has Tons Of WMDs" idea because Iraq said it did. Then didn't. Then did. Then didn't.
Clinton got a blowjob. He knew, I guarantee he knew, that was adulturous behavior. He knew it was a sexual relation.
Symantics played out to your degree are, well frankly, fucking stupid.
Admit you have nothing. Can prove nothing and are a total fucking moron of the worst kind and go away. You were well fed troll
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Hence, Clinton and Bush are both liars by my standards. I can't
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So Bush lied, but you can't actually prove it.
We know Clinton lied, he said so and frankly his excuse (a blow job isn't sex) was lame.
Bush, and previous admins all thought that Iraq was a danger and Bushco did something about. Now, clearly you're against that, that's fine. It's America and you can be... however, you cannot in anyway shape or form prove Bush was lying (as opposed to having less than good intel) when he went to war. Bottom line... You, like your argument suck. If there'
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To the contrary. I made my case. I can't help if your entire worldview is currently revolving around insanely useless definitions.
Oh, most definitely. After all, it wasn't a danger until he threw it into chaos, turning it into a petri dish for terrorist scum. Now we don't have to think about whether or not it's a danger to the U.S., we can be absolutely certain it's a danger to the United State
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I thought you threw a hissyfit and left a while back. Couldn't live without the attention and self-congratulatory ego stroking eh?
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The time has come when the proletariat will break free of the shackles of republican oppression! The revolution is at hand!
I wouldn't presume to know what the voters think of the current administration or elected politicians. I'll just wait for the next election and see. There's no possible way the Republicans can win, right?
Although...now that I think about it...I seem to remember hearing
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Had I wanted to troll I would've written it differently. I'm just surprised that you're still running the same old line of how people are getting tired of the right-wing. While you keep whining and telling people what they actually think, they seem to largely be voting and acting against your wishes and ideas.
Just look at your darling little temper tantrum saying farewell to all the bloody morons on Slashdot. They must be stupid (As we a