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mxmumtuna
join:2000-08-11
Ashburn, VA
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Re: VP Candidate Is Pro-RIAA, Anti-Privacy
These stances are not so much a conservative vs. liberal issue, they're not even a Democrat vs. Republican issue. If you look at FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) for example, which (among other things) gave broad immunity to the telcos for their wiretapping without warrants - crossed party lines - though, all the nay votes came from Democrats.
The fact is, there are very few legislators that truly take up the anti-RIAA and anti-MPAA cause. Even fewer who would stand up for privacy rights, and risk being labeled as "un-American" for being "soft on terror/crime/etc".
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Tsume
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN
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| Sadly though, the most prominent democrat (Obama) in our media gave a YAY!! (presumably because some teleco gave him some cha-ching).
In terms of parties, I'm a neither. Claiming to be a conservative or liberal (or do they like the term "progressive" I never figured that out) is probably a bs claim for a good majority of the population. The only reason people take the side of "conservative" or "liberal" is because we have a two candidate system in our elections. It's either the republican candidate wins or the democrat candidate wins.
Conserving implies that you want to keep everything the same as it is now, and right now it's broken (of course they've strayed from this principle a lot in the past 20 years) "Progressive" implies the liberal use of the "yay" vote on unnecessary, constitution-destroying legislation, and the introduction of such legislation as well.
I'm a Libertarian. I like the liberties given to me by the constitution, and I'd like to get my rights back.
One of these rights would be privacy, and I'm appalled at both Obama's and Biden's respective voting records. No, McCain is not any better. | |
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