Surveillance
The FBI Counterterrorism Unit tracking the activities of legal, non-terrorist organizations like the ACLU and United For Peace and Justice. Fine, the FBI is watching us, but why the Counter-Terrorism Unit? Since when is the ACLU involved in terrorism? By the way, are you a card-carrying member? You should be.
Not just the FBI either. The California National Guard terrorist unit was called out to monitor a peaceful anti-war protest.
And here's an immigration lawyer who's serving a year in prison, for, apparently, criticizing the Patriot Act.
Also, your ISP may be filtering your email and not bothering to tell you. Fine then, let them filter out the viagra ads. Not those, though. They're filtering out messages that contain AfterDowningStreet.org in the body of the message. Where do we live now, China??
Finally, on another topic, new study shows that most of the foreign terrorists flowing into Iraq were not terrorists before we invaded Iraq.
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For fuck's sake. And as for the pseudo-argument that "afterdowningstreet.org" messages are spam, it's completely disingenuous: blocking "from" domains in email messages no longer is useful for blocking any quantity of spam, and they know it.
Cumblast -- uh, Comcast -- is a stunningly shitty company, and an execrable ISP, and I'm not at all surprised that they would curtail freedom of expression like this, whether by malice or by incompetence. (Either explanation is fully plausible for Cumblast.)
Not to lay it all on the odious Cumblast -- there really is a chilling atmosphere now.
Regarding the insurgents who were radicalized by the war, I suppose that I should thank the Bush Administration for conducting such a costly experiment just to prove me right.
Hope this thing works, I'd thought I'd sign up and drive Amy crazy.
The guy said that the 'subject' was being filtered. My guess is that they just recently, or often get, a lot of porn spam with the word 'Down' in the subject and something at comcast switched on automatically and now they are somehow filtering 'Down'. Just a theory, but easy to test. I don't think we have to overreact with "Where do we live now, China??
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But who cares, the downing street memo is just a case of bad reading comprehension. The word 'fixed' is not being used as in 'fixed a fight'. It means to 'make firm, give final form to'.
Oh and why would the anti terrorism unit of the FBI watch the ACLU? Umm, just do a google search, how many suspected terrorists are they involved with, or will be? Should the FBI ignore a laywer who works for mafia too, even if he turns out to be the most innocent guy in the world?
In your next post, terrorism and the ACLU are mentioned together? Amazing, do you only see what you want to?
And about those great people morphing into 'terrorists' and going to save Iraq from all those iraqi politicians that were elected. Maybe they are just morons? If you were president would you 'fix' your policy around potential groups international idiots? I'm sure if you dig deep enough every single war had a group of dumbasses that ended up fighting against their interests.
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