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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Fri Dec 30, 2011, 10:12 AM Dec 2011

Mike Luckovich Toon: Detention Bill

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Mike Luckovich Toon: Detention Bill (Original Post) n2doc Dec 2011 OP

more hope and changey stuff.... KG Dec 2011 #1

True LiberalLovinLug Dec 2011 #2

And if this bill was so important to our safety.....why was it not a free-standing bill? lib2DaBone Dec 2011 #3

bcuz Americans don't give a shit getdown Dec 2011 #4

There IS NO EXCUSE for this bill. Turns the Constitution on its head. Evil, period. DirkGently Dec 2011 #5

but, but.....he's a constitutional scholar. nt tomp Dec 2011 #7

K&R (n/t) a2liberal Dec 2011 #6

KG

(28,753 posts)

1. more hope and changey stuff....

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 04:27 PM

Dec 2011

LiberalLovinLug

(14,176 posts)

2. True

Reply to KG (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 05:51 PM

Dec 2011

Change towards more of a police state and less civil rights.

where if you get locked as a "terrorist sympathizer" which could mean whatever some backwater federal agent says it is, you have a Hope in hell of ever seeing the light of day again.

lib2DaBone

(8,124 posts)

3. And if this bill was so important to our safety.....why was it not a free-standing bill?

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 10:07 PM

Dec 2011

Why did the DEMS find it necessary to sneak this bill thru as part of the Defence budget without any discussion or debate?

Why did Mr. Obama sign this travesty without any debate? I wonder if he even read it?