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13. 10 Why doesn't one of the telecoms...

Fri Aug 9, 2013, 11:10 AM

Aug 2013

10. Why doesn't one of the telecoms adopt a policy of destroying the records of where its customers have been, and who they called, immediately after each call- keeping only a record of how much the call cost? The government can't demand information that a company doesn't have. Wouldn't millions of consumers immediately switch to that carrier? Would the government allow the company to do this? If not, what happened to our Free Enterprise system? Ronald Reagan used to warn that if we gave the government too much power, one day we might suddenly wake up in the Soviet Union of America. Did we, this morning?

On Aug. 5, 1981, Ronald Reagan knee capped unions when he fired 11,345 air traffic controllers.

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Juan Cole: Top Ten Things That Don't Make Sense About Obama's Security State [View all] eridani Aug 2013 OP

The additional seven are also well worth reading. AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2013 #1

du rec. xchrom Aug 2013 #2

Let's be frank: the Spy On Everyone program is not useful for stopping terrorist attacks, but MannyGoldstein Aug 2013 #3

...you forgot to add they does this "stopping" with the use of black helicopters and black drones uponit7771 Aug 2013 #6

Someday attacking people with derision and a "conspiracy theory" implication.... Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #8

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We'll never know if those reforms will or won't work unless they're tried... Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #12

Yeah, maybe the same day we stop hearing about CakeGrrl Aug 2013 #17

Well, we can agree that one of us needs to wake the #%^* up. MannyGoldstein Aug 2013 #10

Strange, can't reach the link. caseymoz Aug 2013 #4

"Obama's security state" cause it only started under Obama hunh?!............................ok uponit7771 Aug 2013 #5

So your argument is that Obama is blameless burnodo Aug 2013 #15

He is the president now..... blackspade Aug 2013 #16

Spitzer! RVN VET Aug 2013 #7

K&R forestpath Aug 2013 #9

10 Why doesn't one of the telecoms... whttevrr Aug 2013 #13

+1000 blackspade Aug 2013 #14

Excellent points, all of them. n/t DirkGently Aug 2013 #18