Remember things like privacy and civil rights?

[larryhead]

More bullshit from the good 'ol boys in D.C.:


Property can be taken for development-Supreme Court (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8873080)
Gov't can now seize your home to put in malls & offices, under the guise of stimulating a local "depressed economy".

Pentagon creating student database (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8322795/)
Defense Dept. creating database of 16-18 y.o. students as potential military recruitment candidates (draft, anyone?). School systems that fail to provide info risk losing federal funds. Additional data will be collected from commercial data brokers, state drivers' license records and other sources, including information already held by the military.


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[poofdogg]

its things like this that make me sick to be an American sometimes...I had to write a rebuttal to this particular story when I saw it...quite frustrating how so many Americans think...here's the story...

A woman writes:
My son serves in the military. He is still stateside right now.
He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and
welcoming people were to him, and his troops, everywhere he
goes, telling me
how people shake their hands, and thank them for being willing
to serve, and fight, for not only our own freedoms but so that
others may have them also.
But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he
stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said
that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman
dressed in a burkha. He said when she got to the cashier she
loudly remarked about the U.S. flag lapel pin the cashier wore
on her smock.
The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly,
"Yes, I always wear it and I probably always will."
The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was
going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was
Iraqi.
A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his
arm around my son's shoulders, and nodding towards my
son, said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman:

"Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young
man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY
country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR
countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in
YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today. But, hey,
if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly,
I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so
you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are
obviously here in MY country to avoid."
Everyone within hearing distance cheered!
IF you agree with the gentleman's statement, pass this on to
all your proud American friends.