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FirstLight

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17. or could it be

Reply to Scuba (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 12, 2013, 11:12 PM

Nov 2013

that the people are tired of feeling like our government holds us in contempt? What about NSA surveillance? what about the prosecution of journalists like James Risen? What about AG Holder supporting a brief filed earlier this year that takes away the power of the fourth estate?

He rejected any idea of a reporter’s first amendment right to protect a source in criminal proceedings. The brief described a working reporter who hears classified information during an interview with a government official as the equivalent of being a witness to a crime, under the Espionage Act of 1917...

This is top of my list, but I was pissed at our POTUS for NOT prosecuting the Banksters, NOT standing up for the poor and all the other shit he promised us would really happen this time around...and it hasn't.

People are sick of the shell game

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