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IN WHICH I AM HEARTILY SICK OF GLENN GREENWALD
"Okay tell me EXACTLY how the program violates FISA?"
That's well-understood. It'd be more illustrative for you to explain how warrantless wiretapping doesn't violate FISA.
Comment Posted By jpe On 30.11.2006 @ 12:58
We certainly know enough to know that the program is illegal, and no one has plausibly asserted otherwise (not least of all the Bush administration).
Greenwald's point is fairly simple: Presidents should obey federal law. I'm amazed that that is controversial.
Comment Posted By jpe On 30.11.2006 @ 12:48
CIVIL LIBERTIES HYSTERIA MONGERS CAN BITE ME
Did I mention that impressive controls on an illegal program doesn't make the program any less illegal?
Comment Posted By jpe On 29.11.2006 @ 23:21
With such impressive controls, they really shouldn't have any problem legalizing the program.
Comment Posted By jpe On 29.11.2006 @ 23:12
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND SELF DEFENSE: SUICIDE IS PAINLESS
As far as “codified†international law the whole point of the piece was to take the law to task for ignoring natural law
Intl law doesn't get into natural law: you're criticizing an apple for being insufficiently orange-y.
Comment Posted By jpe On 2.09.2006 @ 07:00
I think your meltdown is misdirected. The report claims that there's no freestanding right of self-defense recognized in intl law. That seems to be true.
The way you rebut this isn't by screeching to the heavens about gulags and commies, but by finding self-defense codified in intl law.
Comment Posted By jpe On 1.09.2006 @ 14:46
To say this would be catastrophic to American democracy would not be overstating the case one bit.
'One person one vote would DESTROY democracy!'
That's a strange thing to say, no?
Comment Posted By jpe On 29.08.2006 @ 07:01
THE SH*TSTORM OVER THE WORD "SH*T"
The only problem with your thesis is that it seems to be entirely made up: the vast majority of the lefty sphere doesn't give a sh*t about the actual swearing.
Comment Posted By jpe On 17.07.2006 @ 18:23
