Government Targets American Bloggers As Enemy Propagandists, has this gone too far in disregard for the 1st?
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The government has gone to far on everything. It is time to end their reign of terror and start over.
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interesting, are they recruiting people or just stating things, or are they asking legit questions?\n\nfreedom of speech is kinda a right we've got, so they shouldn't be censored\n\nI'm neither one nor the other, but ignore it if they bother you\n\nIf it's so lame and obvious then it will only distract the stupid people from Answers and Questions\n\nno threat to us my friend
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First of all, it has nothing to do with religous leaders.  That makes no sense at all. So obviously you are a moron.  It has nothing to do with a "few" U.S. citizens typing on the internet.  It is catching people in this country who want to destroy it and communicate with terrorists and evil people like the ones who killed 3,000 people on 9/11. I don't understand who you mean by cowards.  It is the complete opposite of coward if you are on the offensive and try to stop violence by terrorists before it happens.  Democrats want to sit back and wait for something to happen before taking action.  That is a coward.  So again you make no sense. Our military does put there life on the line everyday to protect punks like you and this country.  Information they get from NSA wiretapping helps them do this and to stop terrorists from killing innocent Americans.  Maybe even someone close to you.  Would you want to keep your "liberty" or have your mom killed in a terrorist attack when it could have been stopped by wiretapping?  Freedom of thought?  Go ahead and think whatever you want!  Type it on the internet.  Talk about it on the phone.  No one cares!  The government doesn't care.  But if you are talking to al Qaeda then yes they will care and take your a** down!  And if it weren't for that "little protection" you so casually talk about when thousands of Americans have died for it, you would not have your liberty or freedom.
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It never ceases to surprise me how these unsuspecting little republican twats keep chanting "its for our protection", "i have not lost any freedom". Yeah you have, you don't even have the freedom to walk to your airplane without having to take off your freaking shoes at least once. You don't have the freedom to speak freely, lest some secret agent infiltrates your group and spies on you. You think it goes away at one fell swoop? No. It goes away bit by bit. Slowly enough for you not to perceive. Try calling someone outside the country. They will spy on your phone call. They use what is called "network analysis" (network analysis my ass) to find who you are associated with. If you know someone that knows someone that knows someone that knows someone that knows.... with a muslim name, they are probably spying on your phone too!!\n\nThe whole "terrorist attack" is an elaborate ploy. What terrorists? Why aren't we looking for Osama? "I am not that concerned about him." -- Bush on Osama, the same person he wanted dead or alive.\n\nNot too long ago in a certain country fire destroyed one of its most important buildings. The government blamed it on some immigrant workers. In the aftermath the government also enacted a law that retracted civil liberties of the people. The same government persecuted homosexuals, people of other religions and races and political dissidents. In the years to follow this government invaded a couple countries on the pretext of "protecting western civilization" from the influence of those countries while actually the reason was to expand their region of control. The invasions started a major conflict in the area that quickly grew out of control.\nMuch later when peace was restored, it was found out that the original fire was actually started by the government itself in order to get the ball rolling towards its ultimate goal of world domination.\n\nThink you have heard that storyline before? Think its about the Bush administration? No. It's actually from history, the Reichstag fire and subsequent Nazi Germany.\n\nI wonder if netjr is actually an illegitimate child of Bush. He defends the guy so vigorously: there must be a blood relation.
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I was almost afraid to look at your link (after the one yesterday).But this one is a good one. Never did the Liberal media let us Know how many of our presidents used this same ability. It was used as a propaganda tool against president Bush. Liberals were  fooled again.
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I find it to be wrong of Yahoo!... The Feds are always looking for ways to invade our lives. Just tax the hell out of us. Stay off our Yahoo...\nIn all honesty I think Yahoo! shrugged it off as no big deal, which I'm sure it was. I doubt there were a hundred million searches for anything that affects National Security...
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How come, a person who is crying because they are scared of what might happen, are calling liberals "wussies"?  \n\nI guess this is what happens when you continue to follow STUPID!\n\nBTW. . .WWJD?\n\nFarzand A:  It is a fact that "ALL MEDIA" is biased depending on ones particular view.  Which is why everyone and anyone should seek as many different sources possible to gain information.  \n\nI check many sources (using the Internet) to see through the eyes outside of this country, as it pretty obvious that every U.S. news station will tend to protect this nation (and it is understandable).  While our constitution states we have freedom of the press, the press is free to report the news as the owners see fit.  It does not guarantee that it has to be reported straight up and with no holds barred.\n\nToday the ignorant stay ignorant by choice, however, stupidity is a Birth Right and no amount of knowledge can help them. . .In this forum it is difficult to tell the two apart, and the whole concept that a 45 is the best solution,  proves my point.
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Terrorist crashed the plane and US peace activists blame the US government. I really don't think the blame will ever change due to fact that the media will focusing on the negative side of every issue. Whens the last time you heard a news agency maintain a report on what the men in women of the US forces think. It's sad that American news would rather focus on the belly archer's than on the ones dying in the fields to defend the freedom of speech that is being slandered. Enough said!
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In America, no.  That would put them afoul of the 1st Amendment.  And while the 1st Amendment is slowly but surely being whittled away, we're still not yet at the point where the press has to submit stories for goverment approval before publication.
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Answer is NO! However, I think the bigger problem is finding out who leaks this information, there are a lot of Clinton era hold-overs.\n\nNewspapers are in the business of bashing Bush, so they will do whatever it takes to hinder the war effort, and then hide behind freedom of the press. It is getting people killed, and prolonging the war by telling our enemy everything they need to know.
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It is certainly hard to keep the truth under wraps with the masses involved on the internet the truth eventually surfaces. The American people have been lied to and are still being lied to.\n\nThe answer is YES!!!!!
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It's tolerance gone astray.\nI don't care about being PC, but, if you take a look around the internet, it's not only the government who is obsessed, private citizens are also stomping out anything that might even remotely offend anyone, anywhere.\n\nIf you take that into consideration, it's an attempt at taking away our right to free speech.
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You get it in the Canada one too... I think it's Yahoo! giving us a chance to vent our anti-Americanism as much as we want! Hooray!
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You have clearly misunderstood the purpose of the Yahoo! Answers forum. The purpose is to pose questions and answers. \n\nDiatribes are a violation of the Terms Of Service. \n\nMy strong recommendation to you is that you post this sort of content on a political action forum, such as you'd find at http://www.craigslist.org - this is not the appropriate place. \n\nFinally, you say "Needles to say, I will not identify this Federal employee since they stuck their neck out when they told me all this, they obviously felt these laws were ludicrous just as I and most other Americans feel they are..."  - I fail to see why your posting an unattributed content of information (which you CLAIM you go from a federal official) is 'needles' to attribution.
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This sort of thing is unconscionable.\nI certainly hope they get this one straitened out.  \nIt's a shame that it takes a major news network to bring this sort of injustice to our own governments attention.  This sort of thing has happened before and still happens all too often.  Our boys need more and better advocates to represent them in such cases.  Past and present wars are a testament to the horrible ways in which we have treated our returning men in uniform.  Vietnam Veterans suffer to this day........Why do we not take better care of our own?  This does not foster patriotism.\nMaybe we need another section in the newspapers, highlighting these very unsettling atrocities.  We could purchase subscriptions for key politicians and plenty for the Pentagon.  Of course it would be a waste of time to get one for the president, because he pays no attention to the news.  \nAs newspapers are not selling very well these days, we should pitch this idea to them.  If the papers would print it they could could sell it, and provide a very much needed service. After all, freedom of speech is one of the many important freedoms our brave men in uniform fight for, lets not waste it.\nThanks for posting this, more people need to become enlightened about this type of government inaction.
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I believe they're already employing this tactic, planksheer. Honestly, much of the ANP playbook appears to have been lifted from goebbels himself. This administration's version of goebbels is clearly karl "piggy-man" rove, though I confess his physical appearance owes more to the rotund göring. In any case, the parallels are clear to all but the indoctrinated and deceived.\n\nForgive me for taking this liberty, planksheer, but I really must defend you against the spurious attacks I've observed in some of the later posts to your question. For the record, planksheer served his country (the US of A) as a naval officer during the Vietnam War, which is a damn sight more than most of his detractors can say about their own military service (or lack of same). So pray do be more careful about smearing others with vitriolic personal attacks when clearly short of the actual facts. It is so very bush league (pun intended).\n\n*Note for Mellencamp: Well, considering I have an IQ of 152 and am a History scholar, I feel completely assured my knowledge of the history of this country far surpasses yours (as does my grammar). It might interest you to know that, on a lark, I actually took the US citizenship exam and got a perfect score at the same time my father took his and became a US citizen (he was born in the UK). It goes without saying that I have nothing to prove to anyone of your ilk, nor does planksheer, whose patriotism you have no right to impugn either. You clearly have no respect for others whose views are more enlightened than your own and I am thus not in the least bit interested in engaging in a pissing contest with you. So I'm afraid you'll have to go find another playmate to take out your embarrassingly impotent frustrations on. Good grief, no wonder so many around the world despise Americans.
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If they did that, they'd be bankrupt in a month.  We have so many seditious, nasty people speaking against our Presidents (Bush, Clinton, whomever) and against our interests ("But the world says...!")\nthat I doubt you'd even be a blip on their long range and most powerful radar.\n\nThey don't give a darn about you.  They're looking for threats that want to kill you and me, and being bled to death in the process by the seditious public that acts like the mosquitoes that plagued our troops in every war.\n\nTime we swatted them.  Let them speak, don't silence them, but never let them speak without a response by the sane and dignified America we all know is reading these words.  Speak up every time.  Respond and don't be scared to call a seditious traitor a seditious traitor.\n\nOh, I know.  They aren't applying those laws, and I'm really hesitant to suggest they do, but that doesn't change the definition.\n\nC'mon, America!  Democans, Replicrats!  Speak up!  We're on the same side against the people trying to hurt our country for the sake of their politics!