We voted Obama in because we thought he was a change from Bush...

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:dwillhuh: I leave for a couple hours and WWIII breaks out.

I'm too lazy to post a bunch of links atm. But here's a reputable documentary with members of Bushs' administration who adhere to the absurdity which took place under his tenure.

Video: Top Secret America | Watch FRONTLINE Online | PBS Video


:heh: within about 5 minutes of this doc, "most" of TUH's argument is deaded...
 

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:dwillhuh: I leave for a couple hours and WWIII breaks out.

I'm too lazy to post a bunch of links atm. But here's a reputable documentary with members of Bushs' administration who adhere to the absurdity which took place under his tenure.

Video: Top Secret America | Watch FRONTLINE Online | PBS Video


:heh: within about 5 minutes of this doc, "most" of TUH's argument is deaded...

I know I compared him to bush in the title, but bush's sins have nothing to do with Obama

Edit: in fact this is the complete opposite of what I meant with this thread. We thought Obama was a change but he's not.
 

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:dwillhuh: I leave for a couple hours and WWIII breaks out.

I'm too lazy to post a bunch of links atm. But here's a reputable documentary with members of Bushs' administration who adhere to the absurdity which took place under his tenure.

Video: Top Secret America | Watch FRONTLINE Online | PBS Video


:heh: within about 5 minutes of this doc, "most" of TUH's argument is deaded...

I've seen this before. What exactly did they say that proves anything I said was wrong? Can you explain?
 

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@BarNone I conceded many pages ago that the mainstream media gave Bush a pass in the IRAQ War. That is exactly what your sources are saying. You and Serious specifically said that they didn't scrutinize the Patriot Act and that is garbage. I remember vividly those things being discussed in the media, but since I don't believe in anecdotal tales as evidence, I have provided about 20 or so links to prove it.
 
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the fukk is this besides blatant attacks on the constitution? obama continues the same bullshyt policies of bush and worse. I know i'm about to sound like some ron paul stan, but seriously what is this?

monitor emails, credit cards, every phone call/text, every site you ever went to.

kill americans without a trial with drones.

let our cell phones give away every movement

shut down one of the biggest cities in the country over two suspects?

letting cops take dna samples now?

@barnone you wanted new material.

I'm doing the @88m3 and rocking out...

Phoenix ft. R.Kelly - 1901 - Live from Coachella, April 13, 2013 - YouTube

I understand what ur saying, but Bush has the blood of THOUSANDS of young Americans who died in his worthless/false war on his hands. His war he waged on behalf of his daddy, or over oil, or whatever other baseless reason he had. And on top of all that, he has the fall of the ecnomony on his hands.

I hate to criticize Obama b/c A. he can only do so much due to Congress and B. b/c he's black :mjpls:......however I will go ahead say that he's not doing much good right now
 

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I also just realized how fukking dumb this "the media didn't start to Criticize Bush until his 2nd term" argument is.

Obama also got a relative pass on Drones and Civil Liberties violations up into his election victory.

Also, how is that an argument?
 

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I understand what ur saying, but Bush has the blood of THOUSANDS of young Americans who died in his worthless/false war on his hands. His war he waged on behalf of his daddy, or over oil, or whatever other baseless reason he had. And on top of all that, he has the fall of the ecnomony on his hands.

I hate to criticize Obama b/c A. he can only do so much due to Congress and B. b/c he's black :mjpls:......however I will go ahead say that he's not doing much good right now

Can you tell me what congress has to do with the President signing off on every drone strike, even though they may not know who exactly they are targeting?

I'd appreciate any answer on that.
 

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I also just realized how fukking dumb this "the media didn't start to Criticize Bush until his 2nd term" argument is.

Obama also got a relative pass on Drones and Civil Liberties violations up into his election victory.

Also, how is that an argument?

:comeon:

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I will admit to probably mixing up the patriot act, but I did state something to fact, it would never pass in congress, sohh the Bush Administration opted to pass laws in secrecy instead, via OLC.

I do remember there being some controversy around the time the time the measure was first introduced to the public. But within a couple months the media hype died down. I was probably 11 or 12 at the time btw...
 

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I will admit mixing up the patriot, but I did state something to fact, it would never pass in congress, sohh the Bush Administration started passing laws in secrecy through the OLC.

I do remember there being some controversy around the time the time the measure was first introduced to the public. But within a couple months the media hype died down. I was probably 11 or 12 at the time btw...

Breh, if you are trying to say that I'm in any way shape or form giving Bush a pass that is not the case. If it were up to me he and his cohorts would be sitting in a federal prison.

I remember vividly that time. The Patriot Act was the first thing that got my attention in terms of civil liberties. I was around 18 at the time and there was significant media reporting on it. I remember watching programs showing librarians protesting because the act allowed the government to snoop on what people were checking out.

As for the Iraq war, you won't get an argument from me on that. The mainstream media pushed for that shyt.
 

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@BarNone I conceded many pages ago that the mainstream media gave Bush a pass in the IRAQ War. That is exactly what your sources are saying. You and Serious specifically said that they didn't scrutinize the Patriot Act and that is garbage. I remember vividly those things being discussed in the media, but since I don't believe in anecdotal tales as evidence, I have provided about 20 or so links to prove it.

:snoop: Aight breh, I'm out (I won't even address your dodge). You posted a youtube video of Iraq War protests as part of your supposed argument and now you're all over the place. You're trying to limit the argument to shift from your rapid spray way of citing things and arguing. For you to sit there and pretend that the media was as remotely critical as it could have been about the Patriot Act, which was signed in 2001 when I just showed you articles that point out the secrecy of the Bush administration, and their push back against the media and the way conservatives skewed the coverage and protected them and morphed the debate is comical. This is the era in which Fox News became the ratings leader and you're legitimately sitting here pretending that on any grounds they went after the Patriot Act under the Bush administration to any legitimate degree or Bush in general is :wtf: Yet, somehow you decided to blow this entire debate and veer us off subject because you didn't like the way @Serious and I worded it and you started equating us to Toure because you "vividly remembered a media that went hard at push from 01 to 04 all the time about the Patriot Act." :heh: A lot of people did, but it was not the collective mainstream outrage that we have right now, and you never proved that because you can't. You never met that burden, only you think that you have. I can post 20 assorted links to anything. Of course there was extensive debate about it, no one ever denied that. It was not what it should have been early on. The liberal and progressive apparatus was not as robust as it is right now with the huffposts of the world. The drudges of the world were ahead of the game, which is part of what my links were trying to tell you.

We're all here, arguing about bullshyt because of you, instead of what this thread was about. I'm done with you, I got work in the morning.
 
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I understand what ur saying, but Bush has the blood of THOUSANDS of young Americans who died in his worthless/false war on his hands. His war he waged on behalf of his daddy, or over oil, or whatever other baseless reason he had. And on top of all that, he has the fall of the ecnomony on his hands.

I hate to criticize Obama b/c A. he can only do so much due to Congress and B. b/c he's black :mjpls:......however I will go ahead say that he's not doing much good right now

i agree with everything youre saying. he just doesn't have to continue on bush's policies.

lets quote obama then. @Hiphoplives4eva is right, a snake-oil salesman.

Obama 2007 said:
For one thing, under an Obama presidency, Americans will be able to leave behind the era of George W. Bush, dikk Cheney and "wiretaps without warrants," he said. (He was referring to the lingering legal fallout over reports that the National Security Agency scooped up Americans' phone and Internet activities without court orders, ostensibly to monitor terrorist plots, in the years after the September 11 attacks.
 
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i agree with everything youre saying. he just doesn't have to continue on bush's policies.

lets quote obama then. @Hiphoplives4eva is right, a snake-oil salesman.

perhaps some things he said initially, once he got in office he saw would be better left alone. I don't know.

Personally, I don't think it's a huge deal like many. I highly doubt the govt really listens to every phone call, reads every text facebook, etc the way ppl are making it out to be.

How many people have planned out crimes and other illegal actions with others via facebook, phone, text message over the past several years? I'm sure TENS OF THOUSANDS have done so with no govt interference to stop them.

IMO, they probably have some technology to flag keywords or phrases, etc.
 
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Breh, if you are trying to say that I'm in any way shape or form giving Bush a pass that is not the case. If it were up to me he and his cohorts would be sitting in a federal prison.

I remember vividly that time. The Patriot Act was the first thing that got my attention in terms of civil liberties. I was around 18 at the time and there was significant media reporting on it. I remember watching programs showing librarians protesting because the act allowed the government to snoop on what people were checking out.

As for the Iraq war, you won't get an argument from me on that. The mainstream media pushed for that shyt.
Mos def, sounds about right. Like I said, I remember it being a big deal at the time, then over a couple months, people stopped caring. :yeshrug:

I'm willing to up this very thread two months from, now and I bet this issue will still be unresolved and most people will have simply forgotten. Meanwhile our advanced communication will still be recorded.

My initial point was how post Bush administration, every succeeding president will be met with heavy scrutiny. Every slip up has the potential to be scandal / bad pr move, from professor gates and cambridges' finest "acting stupidly" to kanye west being a "jackass". All the laws Cheney / Bush succeeded in backdooring into action, would probably set a future president up for impeachment. This is also one of the underlying reasons why Obama, hasn't been too successful during his presidency.

As well as many other mistakes, which were underestimated and not thoroughly calculated(bj to wall street executives).
 

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i agree with everything youre saying. he just doesn't have to continue on bush's policies.

lets quote obama then. @Hiphoplives4eva is right, a snake-oil salesman.

It's a lot easier from the outside looking in...

Some things are just hard to change.

Being President is Chess not Checkers
Calculus not Algebreh.

Point is, moving forward, in a situation with as much complexity and uncertainty as wireless communication, information never disappears nor fully goes away. It's truly impossible to think society will regress back to having less security surveillance as time moves on.

:yeshrug:

It's really not worth hurting your head over...
 
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perhaps some things he said initially, once he got in office he saw would be better left alone. I don't know.

Personally, I don't think it's a huge deal like many. I highly doubt the govt really listens to every phone call, reads every text facebook, etc the way ppl are making it out to be.

How many people have planned out crimes and other illegal actions with others via facebook, phone, text message over the past several years? I'm sure TENS OF THOUSANDS have done so with no govt interference to stop them.

IMO, they probably have some technology to flag keywords or phrases, etc.

im sure they do. this is probably the tip of the iceberg. and we're totally cool with it. :usure:

and we're just letting it happen without saying anything because "i have nothing to hide"
 
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