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Uncle Joe

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2. When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, likewise

Reply to stockholmer (Original post)

Mon Feb 27, 2012, 06:04 PM

Feb 2012

when all your major candidates are monopolized in the authoritarian quadrant of the political spectrum, policy solutions and laws will only serve to increase authoritarianism and the Anaconda grip of a full blown police state.

Thanks for the thread, stockholmer.

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The Harvard Law Record: Indefinite Detention Under the NDAA: the Great Attack on Civil Liberties [View all] stockholmer Feb 2012 OP

Oh, this is just alarmist alarmism gratuitous Feb 2012 #1

When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, likewise Uncle Joe Feb 2012 #2

I wonder why in the "debates" the question never came up as if any R-con candidate agreed w Obama rhett o rick Feb 2012 #3

Not to be confused with the Harvard Law REVIEW, which is a serious paper. TheWraith Feb 2012 #4

The Harvard Law Record: oldest US law school newspaper, among its editors/writers- Barack Obama, stockholmer Feb 2012 #5

more background on the NDAA (most anything Lindsey Graham & Joe Lieberman are BOTH for, I'm against) stockholmer Feb 2012 #7

You see, hyperbolic posts like this are why no one takes you seriously. sudopod Feb 2012 #6

HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!! WillyT Feb 2012 #8

K&R G_j Feb 2012 #9

Can this new law be used as the basis for denying the extradition of Assange to the US? proverbialwisdom Feb 2012 #10

IF Assange is sent here to Sweden for trial (and the dodgy charges are a whole other matter) AND if stockholmer Feb 2012 #11

My point was simply something doesn't add up. I'm suspending judgement. proverbialwisdom Feb 2012 #12