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8-10-2009 12:25 AM
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"Councils have been accused of using the powers, which were originally intended to tackle terrorism and organised crime, for trivial matters such as littering and dog fouling "
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8-10-2009 2:23 AM
merrie
What a sad state of affairs in what was once a free society.
8-10-2009 3:12 AM
BartendingBear
Welcome to our future, compliments of BushCo and the hideous legislation known deceptively as "The Patriot Act".
8-10-2009 5:20 AM
murieleileen
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8-10-2009 8:19 AM
thisnamecantbetaken
Good clip, COT! This is a perfect example of the world we now inhabit and the only comfort is, that people ARE finally starting to wake up and see, that all this surveillance is not just for fighting "terror", but for fighting and controlling us.
8-10-2009 6:56 PM
ColoradoRight
isn't it interesting that the people who think that keeping track of people who might want ot kill you is horrible, but they will willingly give their entire medical history to the kind of people who staff the DMV.
8-10-2009 7:26 PM
clip-on-tie
I'm all for terrorist surveillance, border security, protecting our citizens. What I don't like is government sticking their nose where it doesn't belong - "Trivial matters such as littering and dog fouling?" For real? Taxpayers funding that nonsense is abominable.

I thought the government was spying on me once, but it ends up cameras come standard on phones now.

BartendingBear, so what you're saying is Obama is basically Bush with a week lag?
8-10-2009 10:48 PM
BartendingBear
Let's see... Obama has played to the big Wall Street & international banking money with his follow-through and enlargement of BushCo's horrid stimulus plan while killing jobs and leaving Main Street America in the dust, reneged on campaign promises of transparency in government, refused to investigate and prosecute (per his oath of office) obvious violations of oath by BushCo members by the score, refused to restore our civil rights by the restoration of habeas-corpus, refused to vacate the egregious notion of an imperial presidency by not striking down the signing statements of Bush, and... need I go on?

As The Infowarrior has pointed out in several comments, the notion of the left and the...
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