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sbenois
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Username: Sbenois

Post Number: 10472
Registered: 10-2001


Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 8:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Well, well, well. Seems like the FBI has been watching the anti-war protests pretty carefully for anarchists and others who are interested in bringing down our country.

The HUAC days are back. Yay!


http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/11/23/security.fbi.reut/index.html

Good. Because there was a clear difference between the acceptable garden variety anti-war protesters like Tjohn and Tom, and the crap typically heard from the mouths of the International A.N.S.W.E.R nutcases.



Okay Tom, let me hear ya brother.


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Fruitcake
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Username: Fruitcake

Post Number: 39
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 10:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

What exactly is the "clear difference" between these types of protestors? Please explain, and feel free to quote the first amendment in your answer.
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tom
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Username: Tom

Post Number: 1552
Registered: 5-2001
Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 10:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


quote:

"Our interest is not in individuals or groups expressing their constitutional right to protest. It is only those individuals or groups that would be involved in either conspiring, or actively involved in violent or criminal activity in support of a particular cause,"



OK

quote:

It described activist strategies like videotaping arrests to intimidate police and using the Internet to recruit and raise funds.



Doesn't seem to qualify.

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Nohero
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Username: Nohero

Post Number: 2473
Registered: 10-1999


Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 11:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - Santayana

Or, to put it another way.

"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again."
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Dr. Winston O'Boogie
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Username: Casey

Post Number: 301
Registered: 8-2003


Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 11:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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strawberry
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Username: Strawberry

Post Number: 1456
Registered: 10-2001
Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 11:20 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

[removed due to service agreement with our hosting provider



"That moment has directly affected my foreign policy. See, it changed the nature of the presidency. It changed the security arrangements of the United States of America. I vowed to the American people I would never forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001."
--President George W. Bush
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Nohero
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Username: Nohero

Post Number: 2475
Registered: 10-1999


Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 11:23 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

So that's why they're being watched so closely ...
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strawberry
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Username: Strawberry

Post Number: 1457
Registered: 10-2001
Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 11:26 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

[removed due to service agreement with our hosting provider]
"That moment has directly affected my foreign policy. See, it changed the nature of the presidency. It changed the security arrangements of the United States of America. I vowed to the American people I would never forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001."
--President George W. Bush
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strawberry
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Username: Strawberry

Post Number: 1458
Registered: 10-2001
Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 11:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

[removed due to service agreement with our hosting provider
"That moment has directly affected my foreign policy. See, it changed the nature of the presidency. It changed the security arrangements of the United States of America. I vowed to the American people I would never forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001."
--President George W. Bush
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strawberry
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Username: Strawberry

Post Number: 1459
Registered: 10-2001
Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 2:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

What's the agreement? The service provider won't allow us to post pics of Liberals acting like idiots?
"That moment has directly affected my foreign policy. See, it changed the nature of the presidency. It changed the security arrangements of the United States of America. I vowed to the American people I would never forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001."
--President George W. Bush
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Nohero
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Username: Nohero

Post Number: 2478
Registered: 10-1999


Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 2:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

John Ashcroft strikes again!

That's the ticket!
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Dave Ross
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Username: Dave

Post Number: 5752
Registered: 4-1998


Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 3:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"The service provider won't allow us to post pics of Liberals acting like idiots"

Exactly

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