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Suggests AT&T/BellSouth merger review creates ample opportunity
(old news - 01:04PM Tuesday Jun 06 2006)
tags: legal · competition · fcc · privacy
Monday was the last day the FCC was receiving comments on the AT&T BellSouth merger, and the ACLU stepped forward to suggest the merger review was a good time for the FCC to investigate allegations the telcos had been handing over customer information to the NSA without judicial oversight. FCC chief Martin has stated in letters to concerned Senators that this likely won't happen. Meanwhile a number of competing providers such as XO Communications banded together to protest the merger.

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Jigsaw
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The money is in there hand..

The money has been past to there respected whore's nothing will stop the merger carry on!!You got the Cash you can do anything you want even break the law and they reward you for it Welcome to the USA/FSA...
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Dropping Bellsouth because of merger need new telco

Can anyone recommend a good telco that has dsl and pots at a decent price
this is for res service.

I fired AT&T years ago I will NEVER do business with them
If bellsouth becomes AT&T the can kiss my money goodbye

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Re: Dropping Bellsouth because of merger need new telco

Just get a cell & dry pair dsl while your at it. If ping times are not your concern I would simply suggest going all wireless and get an EV-DO card from Sprint with the 49.95 business unlimited data access plan.

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Both AT&T and BellSouth are not good providers. At least at&t is a new name in this part of the world. Would like to see Verizon take over part of the franchise.

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Re: The money is in there hand..

Wow, the ACLU is actually doing something good!? Usually they just want to remove all forms of Christianity and feminize this country with their "don't offeeeend" anyone philosophy.

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Screw the ACLU

The ACLU is the most corrupt "organization" in America. Those people pretend to stand up for things but in reality all they do is shelter and protect rapists, child molesters, and murderers. Way back when the group began they may have stood for something, now they are just a disgrace to this country. Anyone who supports the ACLU should be ashamed to show their face in public after how they have handled things recently. They really could have done something good with their organization, but they failed miserably.

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Re: Screw the ACLU

Martin isn't going to step in to anything involving the NSA. And he will ignore the ACLU in the merger proceedings. He will wisely let the Congress deal with any issues of national security, the NSA, and the telcos.
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You also forgot that the ACLU is a communist organization, started by communists around the depression era. All these investigations and all these things they do, defending terrorists and child molestors are their way of trying to bring down Christianity and capitalism, so that they can replace it with communism. These people never gave a damn when Bill Clinton violated the Branch Davidians' Civil Rights when he had the ATF murder them.

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Re: Screw the ACLU

I see the big government cheerleaders have come out in force today. Fake conservatism at its finest.
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June 6th, @05:23PM

The ACLU defends people's rights. Part of keeping our freedoms is about defending people's rights even when you don't agree with what they say or do.

But in this administrations view, rights are something to be trampled on and they encourage other's to wipe thier a** with our Constitution.

The worst part of this is the fact that there are lots of people who can't think for themselves and just end up towing the line. These people scare me the most because they will follow their leaders to the pits of hell if that's what it takes to keep them "safe".

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Re: Screw the ACLU

said by jdjbuffalo See Profile :

The worst part of this is the fact that there are lots of people who can't think for themselves and just end up towing the line. These people scare me the most because they will follow their leaders to the pits of hell if that's what it takes to keep them "safe".
Maybe they can think just fine for themselves. But they just don't agree with you.
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Re: Screw the ACLU

That's fine. They don't have to agree with me that's the great thing about freedom of speech. That's one of the many freedoms that I want to see preserved and the ACLU is a group that helps in that regard.

I don't like everything the ACLU does myself but I do like their motivation to help people who often have no one else to turn to. It's also great when they stand up for the greater good when often there aren't any other organizations that will.

Another organization that does a lot of good for us technology-wise is the EFF. I'm glad they are going after AT&T for the call records scandal.

We need people in country to wake up from their slumber and see what's going on around them. If people can't or won't think for themselves then they could very well lead to the downfall of this great nation by do little to nothing to stop people in power who would take away all of our freedoms and leave us with nothing but a broken society. Make no mistake, we are following the path of the Romans before us. Will we see the Visigoths before they reach the 7 hills of Rome?

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June 6th, @06:08PM

said by jdjbuffalo See Profile :

But in this administrations view, rights are something to be trampled on and they encourage other's to wipe thier a** with our Constitution.
Again, where have peoples' rights been trampled? No one put Michael Moore or Stephen Colbert in prison for dissing the President. Heck, the fact that people can still come here and whine about fake abuses of power without fear of reprisal is proof that freedom of dissent is still alive and well.

As for the ACLU, any time an illegal alien vermin, terrorist, child molester or other criminal needs a best friend, the ACLU is always there with open arms to see to it that the "severe punishments" which they justly deserved are cancelled out. If this was any other country, the ACLU would have been branded as seditious and wiped out already. I still openly and happily question the patriotism of this organization, which properly deserves the label "Al Qaeda's best friend."
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Re: Screw the ACLU

The ACLU defends people's rights. Part of keeping our freedoms is about defending people's rights even when you don't agree with what they say or do.
Apparently you skipped my first paragraph. Read it again and let sink in.

You want an example of rights that have been trampled on, here it is: Jose Pidilla. He is an American Citizen that was held for 3 years without charging him. This is a gross violation of his fifth and sixth ammendment rights. They just declared him an enemy of the state and said he had no rights. If they can do it to him they can do it to you too.

More on him: »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_···orist%29

Also, just because we still have the right of Freedom of Speech doesn't mean that we aren't losing other rights. I would argue that it's unconstitutional for the president or congress (without an ammendment) to suspend the rights of anyone for any reason.

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Re: Screw the ACLU

said by jdjbuffalo See Profile :

You want an example of rights that have been trampled on, here it is: Jose Pidilla. He is an American Citizen that was held for 3 years without charging him. This is a gross violation of his fifth and sixth ammendment rights. They just declared him an enemy of the state and said he had no rights. If they can do it to him they can do it to you too.
Abdullah al-Muhajir should have been killed on site. So they declare one scumbag to be an enemy of the state because he was caught red handed helping the enemy. That's not a trampling of rights, that is an execution of powers as commander-in-chief. When Bush declares all anti-war protesters to be enemy combatants and sends them all way to Gitmo without trial (similar to how Abraham Lincoln dispatched anti-war protesters during the Civil War), then you can tell me he is infringing on peoples' rights.

Perhaps if this dirtbag had done something positive with his life, instead of trying to kill his fellow countrymen, then he would not be in the predicament in which he currently finds himself. I hope he dies a slow, horrible death in prison, just like Suleyman al-Faris deserves to. Of course, the ACLU will do everything in its power to ensure that Abdullah al-Muhajir and his ilk are free to walk the streets of America so that they can kill to their hearts' content.
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ya, like you towing the ACLU, liberal, communist line that the ACLU defend people's rights. They defend criminal organizations like NAMBLA and Islam. They defend deadbeats when they get denied welfare money, since its a violation of civil rights to deny people money they don't deserve and have no problem stealing it from people who do work for it.(taxpayers) Liberals tow the ideological line of oppose anything that will bring freedom in the world and support the bad guy's in the world so that they can destroy capitalism and bring communism to the U.S.A. When Bill Clinton and his communist gang wanted to invade Iraq in 98, no one had a problem with it, when he invaded personal lives of many taxpayers just because they may have been conservative, or gave money to conservitives, nobody on the left had a problem with civil rights, or when Clinton murdered the Branch Davidians, I did not hear anything from these communist pinkos about how thier civil rights were violated. When America wants to protect its borders, the ACLU and the communists defend the illegal aliens who are committing a crime trying to sneak in here, and make threats towards the innocent minute men and border patrol for mistreating criminals. The ACLU was started by communists, and only exists to help defend the people who can help them destroy capitalism and help bring communism, plain and simple. So please, any of you usefull idiots of the communist party whine about Bush, remember, it is you that wants to destroy the constitution, not Bush. All you left-wing communist pinkos need to do a favor and kill yourselves, now!
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Re: Screw the ACLU

If you're going to insult people, make sure your spelling is correct

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definition?

Hmm, last I checked CDRs != "wiretapping"

Maybe it's just me.

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No case

until ALL branches of GOV say if NSA wiretapping is illegal or not
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Re: No case

said by odreian615 See Profile :

until ALL branches of GOV say if NSA wiretapping is illegal or not
Domestic surveillance of American citizens by the CIA, NSA, DoD, and Navy Intelligence is a violation of those organizations respective charters, the law and the Constitution.

But, if you are holding your breath waiting for the Republican controlled rubberstamp Congress, or the Republican appointed and led rubberstamp Supreme Court to take up the subject of illegal domestic surveillance, you are definitely suicidal.

The above mentioned entities presently represent an army of constituents like Tkjunkmail, pnh102, wifi4milez and houselog442, and their ilk. All jingo-spouting dubious fruits of a morally defective education proselytizing in lockstep their self-destructive, in-bred, zenophobic, homophobic, pseudo-patriotic, anti-humanist, pro-corporate, neo-colonialist philosophy. Their sincerity may impersonate, but it cannot substitute, for reason.

As one who does not share their relentlessly heartless, and myopic, despotic vision, my only consolation is they will reap exactly what they sow. Even so, I shall take no undue pleasure in their inevitable disconsolation when nature flushes them like so much kindred flotsam circling the porcelain.
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