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Only if you supply the farva beans sweetpea....

Transgender is prolly the word your looking for

You say that like it's a bad thing.

LOL = worst community ever

in any case he is not going to get 8 years in prison. This is a media case to draw attention to an ongoing problem involving free speech that has little to no historical precedence.

The Patriot Act and NDAA are all the precedent they need. I don't know why anyone still thinks constitutional rights or previous judicial precedent mean anything unless they haven't the faintest idea what's written in those two documents.

I would argue that is the rule (not knowing or caring about legislation) rather than the exception for these specific instances where the results are so dramatic. People aren't just unaware, they actively avoid this knowledge.

In an environment where more journalists and their sources have been prosecuted than any other time in history, it's no small wonder that anyone has the stones to ask about where their supposed rights went. The moment you stop believing in the dichotomy, where at least one political party has the right idea (they clearly do not), you open yourself up to becoming the victim of both parties. So long as you remain on-board with at least one of the gangs, you stand to receive the benefits of being protected by that group. When the cryps and bloods are at war in your neighborhood, the neutrals are the first ones to be killed so everyone at least pretends to take a side and waffles as necessary to save their own skin.

Even if one does have the strength of their convictions, they're better off ignoring politics. To enter into the bi-polar system is to bastardize your cause entirely. To join as a third-wheel is certain death, be that social, or literal.

Work to reform your hyper-liberal town from within the conservative movement? You are branded a racist, misogynist, and elitist. Work to reform your hyper-conservative town from within a liberal movement? You are branded a commie flag-burner who hates everyone in his own country. It doesn't matter if you express dissent from every other party position except your one issue and campaign tirelessly to help people find a common reasonable ground. They will see you as they see everything else that does not mesh their the party platform: enemy.

This is because politics are not markets. They aren't a free exchange of ideas where people seek to benefit themselves by offering something of value in return. They are a means for a majority (however cobbled and awkward) to assert their will over everyone else. To be political is to attempt to dominate. To accept politics as a valid means of resolving social problems is to accept that you will be, on more occasions than not, dominated. So it should come as no surprise that most people aren't ready to ask questions or stand on any kind of moral ground. We know exactly what happens to that kind of person and evolution has conditioned most of us not to be martyrs, even for the high and supposedly hallowed virtues written about in our constitution.

Complete overreaction on the part of the authorities, Texas nuff said.

This seems relevant, and slightly prophetic

Next time you talk to security at an airport and declare that you have explosives in your luggage, do tell us what happens.

We will, of course, wait.

So you think the TSA needs to be in schools or listening in on gamers? Sorry, I know you probably thought that was clever, but you need to stay on the immediate topic for your jokes to make sense.

Sounds like you enjoy a good groping and radiation bath at the airport. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't think it should be mandatory.

"9-11 changed everything."

-Sean Hannity, Fox News

So I guess this is your way of coming out as a conservative?