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In reply to the discussion: In Case You Missed This Little Nugget From Edward Snowden This Week... [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)We, all of us, only have the rights they choose to allow us. That is not a right. That is being too unimportant to warrant their attention. Unless and until, of course, we do something like Occupy Wall Street. Then, they can destroy our belongings and put some of us in the hospital without an arrest, let alone a warning.
Besides all that, is there now any doubt that they planted listening and watching devices around the protest sites?
Gee, if only Bushco hadn't been in charge of Homeland Security then, huh?
ETA: Around the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, people who had participated in the pre-March events were telling their war stories. And, while I credit JFK for his part in moving civil rights forward and many other things, he was President then.
When the rubber hits the road, it's a lot more about 99% vs. plutocrat than it is about party labels.