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Whose post are you replying to?
*Carrol
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> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of JOANNA A.
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:00 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Fwd: c
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>
> This whole brouhaha about information gathering is nothing but libertarian
> or conspiracist fantasies acting as useful idiots for Republican
operatives
> trying to manufacture some shit on Obama - swift boat captains redux if
you
> will. As I sad before, I am not a big supporter of Obama, but I find
this
> kind of tactics quite repulsive.
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>
> I find this offensive. There is a body of law in place that says privacy
matters.
> There is a growing militarization of the state that is basically granting
it the
> right to do whatever it pleases, whenever it pleases, to whomever it
pleases.
>
> The wide and arbitrary sweep of information is part of that
militarization.
>
> This is not libertarian and conspiracist fantasizing, this is reality.
>
> And some people are fighting back, which takes a lot of guts.
>
> Joanna
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