So I found out today that there was a law passed in 2003 in the wake of the Patriot Act, which, lucky enough (or by design) for our lawmakers, the waves of which were large enough to obscure the passing of it's impish little cohort into law. The imp is the Extradition Act, which basically says that America can extradite any citizen of any country based on suspicion alone. Lawmakers claim the bill was designed to facilitate the rapid capture of terrorists, but as with those pesky wiretaps, there are those who fear that the government will hide behind vague, blanket coverage laws and use them to prosecute non-terrorists, all in the name of National Security which, as we are lead to believe, ultimately means the safety of you and I. So our government, one that stands for Freedom, has a law on its books that allows it to take the freedom of anyone on the planet without evidence (and they're using the hell out of it). In a nice level-jump, however, American citizens cannot be extradited to another country because it violates our constitution. What kind of bullshit is that? The constitution is based on the first principle of universal human rights. Rights for all. So, the Extradion Act violates the constitution as well. It is so blatanly obvious that this is true, yet its just another scale on the seemy underbelly of our government, the bloated snake becoming hungry, expanding its groping mass over the populace of the planet with the same non-thinking self-assuredness of a python as it squeezes until that annoying thump emanating from within its prey is silenced.
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man, that story you linked to is fucked up! i wonder why i've never heard of it in the states. had you?
and to think what republicans say about how the american press' fault is that it only ever cares to publish the bad things (with regard to Iraq).
and what i hear on the t.v. all the time is like: and tonight at 10, we'll meet a dog who flushes the toilet.. for the family cat!
no, did not hear of that shit in the states. it pretty much proves to me that the american people are not an active, dynamic, democratic population, but a collection of what amounts to farm animals. in the information age, our government gives us the information it wants us to have, by design, while it spends billions to discredit other information that it finds contrary to its purposes to the point where it is cast aside. totally fucked.
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