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by TapeCutter

Stop judging a nation’s people by it’s government’s actions and the world will make a lot more sense.

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by Ironsides

Here’s the actual quote.
“There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.”
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)

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by pavera

The big difference between an “internet content tax” and the television taxes you guys have over across the pond is that there are hundreds of types of media that are accessible through the internet.
If this were put in place, it would be less than a week before the ISP bill had hundreds of [...]

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by flajann

Since January 2006, behavior-detection officers have referred about 70,000 people for secondary screening, Maccario said. Of those, about 600 to 700 were arrested on a variety of charges, including possession of drugs, weapons violations and outstanding warrants.

Out of 70,000 people that were harassed by these so-called “Airport Profilers”, only about 700 of them were [...]

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by FranTaylor

The government doesn’t think that your data is something that should be protected from unreasonable search, you shouldn’t either.

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by fyngyrz

Considerably more germane to how the US is supposed to work than a religious quote, the constitution has this to say:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, [...]