Oh, by the way, while you were out

[khaosworks]

...some dipshit in the White House signed away your civil liberties. Just FYI.

As of late last month, the US has a law that make a police state look good.

I believe the phrase rhymes with "clucking bell".

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[(Anonymous)]

Oh, and by the way, the British government is doing it's worst to come up with something similar, though, for now, I live in hope that the offending bill will be savaged in the House of Lords...

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1678000/1678033.stm

RickH

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

[sydneygb.livejournal.com]

Coworker Joe's been right on it all this time.

I think I'm gonna see about getting that Australian citizenship now. It can't be like this over there ...

Can it?

Re: Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Can't it?

I live in New Zealand, just across from Australia, and our government is in the process of putting in some pretty drastic surveillance laws. Nothing on this scale, but pretty drastic in comparison to what they have now.

As the website says, "It _can_ happen here."

Liberty? Let them eat cake!

[goldispikes.livejournal.com]

http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=2700

Kha, please don't come here and make any jokes at the airport...that's all I can say.

Fucking imperialist oil baron spawn.

Re: Liberty? Let them eat cake!

[goldispikes.livejournal.com]

And another interesting view on this:

http://www.sfbg.com/SFLife/36/08/anthrakistan.html

[gingicat]

Here's the text of the whole thing:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR03162:|TOM:/bss/d107query.html