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20-12-05, 02:58 PM | #21 |
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I still remember when the media revealed the CIA's tracking of Osama Bin Laden from his satellite phone. There wasn't any question of U.S. privacy laws then and it's only a shallow excuse now. People in the media are simply getting away with treason.
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20-12-05, 05:00 PM | #22 | |
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of course if bush thinks even knowledge already public is too dangerous for the public to (re-)know, he could've have lied about it, denying the very existence of a well-known program, and by extension, his violation of it, or he could have simply refused to comment, which he usually does when confronted with something controversial. if knowledge of the program has damaged u.s. security, bush shares most of the blame, for violating the law to begin with and for acknowledging it with such aggression. “yeah i did it 30 times and i’m gonna keep doin it, no matter what.” woah there pardner. we know you can't believe everything in the paper, no matter what the name says on the masthead. a few no-comments might not’ve quieted critics but it wouldn't have screamed to the most ignorant terrorists "we are listening to you!" either. i mean bush hands them a gold-plated official affirmation then turns around and snaps "that aids them!"? he obviously has a lot more problems than i give him credit for. meanwhile it sounds like the bad old j edgar hoover days of internal us surveillance are on us all over again, with the nytimes reporting the F.B.I. Watched Activist Groups, New Files Show WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 - Counterterrorism agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted numerous surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations that involved, at least indirectly, groups active in causes as diverse as the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief, newly disclosed agency records show… One F.B.I. document indicates that agents in Indianapolis planned to conduct surveillance as part of a "Vegan Community Project." Another document talks of the Catholic Workers group's "semi-communistic ideology." A third indicates the bureau's interest in determining the location of a protest over llama fur planned by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/20/politics/20fbi.html more than most, this administration really needs the oversight, and that's saying a lot. asking citizens to trust them is asking too much of any american. - js. |
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20-12-05, 10:23 PM | #23 |
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Aww, now whining about the FBI monitoring domestic terror threats; which is just as legal.
Cry me a river bitch. |
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24-12-05, 04:15 PM | #25 |
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So why doesn't anyone reveal the lying shitstains name? Seems like the Dartmouth professors might be the real liars since everything the media reported came from them and they seemed eager to play politics with the supposed incident. But I wouldn't exclude the journalists, who thought a second hand source was good enough for a story, from complicity.
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Wait until u have a garage sale or do a little $200 private sale, how about sell your old car for $2500 and the govmn't steps in wanting taxes and income reported. Don't forget the penalties. U're fuc'd my friend. We have let our gov get too big and now it is eating us up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~revolt if u have the balls~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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03-03-06, 08:05 PM | #28 | |
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this is the kind of government the Bushies have brought us....
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04-03-06, 01:38 AM | #29 |
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Sometimes bank employees do stupid things. I have had a few bad experiences in that area. In this case, the bank lied to the person or the story is bogus.
I have recently made similar payments, even larger than that. Nobody delayed or witheld payments from reaching my accounts and nobody from Homeland Security appeared. Loans of money by commercial lenders, including mortgage loans are sometimes monitored by Homeland Security. There is no reason for Homeland Security to monitor payments to credit accounts unless the source of the funds is questionable. Purchases of certain things with a credit card may also be subject to monitoring. For example, it would not be advisable to purchase (or attempt to purchase) large quantities of ammonium nitrate. Purchases with large amounts of currency may be subject to scrutiny, especially if the cash transaction is $10,000.00 or more. This is not about government snooping. This is just the bank (JC Penny in this case) enjoying an extra period of "float" by coming up with some bullshit. They make some excuse to sit on the money before crediting the payment to the account. The bank gets the interest on the payment money, and then continues to charge the victim interest on the credit account balance. It's a game that some credit card companies play. They get away with it unless the consumer stands up for him/her self. JC Penny is notorious for stunts like this, but there are others that do the same thing and pull other stunts. The best thing to do is raise hell with the credit company, close the account and never do business with them again. Other companies I have known to pull similar shady stunts include Centennial Bank, MBNA, Citi, and Discover. I used to have accounts with these companies but they played similar games with me, so I closed the accounts.
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04-03-06, 06:27 AM | #30 |
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Are you sure he wasn't visited by two agents from homeland security?
Fuck knife, how ridiculous does a story have to be for you to figure out it's bullshit? "madder than a panther with kerosene on his tail" Who says stupid crap like that? It seems like something you'd read on April fools day. |
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04-03-06, 11:45 AM | #33 |
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04-03-06, 03:06 PM | #34 |
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Well, I've made numerous credit card payments above $3000.00 within the last year. Not even one of the payments was delayed for any reason. Creditors that do not apply my payments to my accounts promptly lose my business.
I made a credit card payment well over $3000.00 within the last week. Sooooooo why am I not being given a clandestine location grilling by Homeland Security right now???? The reporting rules I am familiar with involve reporting transactions made in currency. Paying bills by check is not a currency transaction and is therefore not within reporting guidelines. I recently withdrew a lot more than $3000.00 in currency to purchase some precious metals. This is above the reporting threshold - but I still got the money instantly, and made the purchases I wanted. The government probably knows I withdrew the funds and the next day exchanged the currency for precious metals. No Home Security men in black showed up. What I did was perfectly legal all the way. I know several people who used to have JC Penney accounts. They no longer have JC Penney accounts because of the stunts pulled on them. One person I know even sued JC Penney and TRW Credit Data for false information on his credit report regarding a JC Penney charge account - and won. The experience that Walter Soehnge had was simply JC Penney pulling one of it's stunts with an unsuspecting client debtor. My advice to him is to tell JC Penney to stuff it and pay off the account any (legal) way possible, close the account, and never do business with JC Penney again. Here is my Centennial Bank experience: I operated a small sporting goods store and had a business account with Centennial Bank. The branch in question was in Castro Valley, California. One day, I went to make the daily deposit, which happened to include ten $100.00 bills. The teller claimed the $100.00 bills were counterfeit. I looked all the bills over very carefully and noted that all the security measures that I could detect were present. My response to the teller was “bullshit”. I told the teller that “whereas I am not an expert on identification of counterfeit currency these bills seem to exhibit the security measures I know about and can detect. If these are counterfeit, they are good counterfeits, and the government must be alerted. Call them. NOW”. They gave me a bunch of bullshit about having to send the bills to the Secret Service. I made them give me a receipt for the bills, including the serial numbers of the bills. Two weeks went by and no word from the bank, so I went down to the bank to inquire in person. I was told that the Secret Service had authenticated the bills as genuine, and that they had received the bills back. I asked them if they deposited the money into my business account. The answer was no. I was steaming HOT. I took the bills, along with the rest of the money the business had in that bank and closed all the accounts the business had there. I have no training or special knowledge in detection of counterfeit currency. That bank probably handles in one day more currency than I have seen in my lifetime. They are supposed to be in tune with anti-counterfeiting measures. Yet, they were less qualified than me in authenticating genuine U.S. currency? I really don’t think so. They sat on $1000 for two weeks and got free use of the funds. It was a bullshit game and they lost. Whereas we must always be on guard for unreasonable actions by the government, making up stories and/or embellishing a true story to make it serve a political purpose is simply irresponsible - and that goes for any “side” in the effort. It just spreads disinformation and is counter-productive to the quest for a more responsible government.
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04-03-06, 04:55 PM | #35 |
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The knife who cried wolf.
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04-03-06, 05:13 PM | #36 |
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keep swinging, slugger - you'll get a hit one of these days
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04-01-07, 06:27 AM | #37 | |
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04-01-07, 10:03 AM | #38 |
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wouldn't most Americans suspect their mail has been checked over by the government anyway ?
at least this way you know for sure bad news for people who send each other stuff like DVD and HDD's via snail mail |
05-01-07, 12:16 AM | #39 |
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Gee, I posted that link 2 days ago in one of my so called "rant"...
yet another freedom taken away by your's truly ADM. When will the free and proud american citizens wake up and do something about it? |
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whenever there is no more electricity for the tv/pc to work
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