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Total number of comments: 5 (since 2013-11-28 16:44:30)

Alan8

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  • Top Ten Things that don't Make Sense about NSA Surveillance, Drones and al-Qaeda
    • Alan8 08/07/2013 at 10:02 am

      "The Obama Administration has released information about the threat. I based my points on the Administration’s assessments. Should we take your word that the Obama Administration is lying? Upon what do you base your claim that the Administration is lying about this threat?"

      “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” ― Christopher Hitchens

    • Alan8 08/06/2013 at 5:48 pm

      "There were highly specific communications that were intercepted from Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to AQAP’s chief in Yemen, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, ordering a major attack against US and/or Western interests."

      "Second, the drone strikes in Yemen obviously have been working, as we know some major AQAP leaders and operatives have been taken out as a result."

      We've been told so many similar LIES by the government about the "dozens" of terror plots that illegal surveillance "prevented", that I wouldn't believe ANY of these claims without proof.

      They're trying to make us believe that slavery is freedom.

      I don't buy it.

  • FBI Violated Constitution by Branding Peaceful Occupy Wall Street as Terrorist threat
    • Alan8 12/28/2012 at 4:27 pm

      Yet another reason I voted Green Party.

      Why do you expect the fascist 1% to change while you unconditionally support their two parties?

      Vote Green 2014!

  • NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US under digital surveillance, Trillions of Messages Stored
    • Alan8 12/04/2012 at 9:33 am

      This invasion of privacy has no place in a democracy. It's a symptom of America's descent into fascism.

      When coupled with the president's assertion that he can order the detention, torture, and execution of anyone, anywhere, without due process, we have the legal basis for the totalitarian state of Stalin, here in America.

      This anti-democratic corruption of the Constitution has broad bipartisan support. Yet another reason I vote Green Party.

  • Top 5 Stratfor Revelations
    • Alan8 02/29/2012 at 3:40 pm

      "Stratfor Vice President Fred Burton, a former State Department official involved in counter-terrorism, lamented that in the old days the US would simply have assassinated Venezuelan leftist leader Hugo Chavez and Bolivian leftist leader Evo Morales."

      Nazis. Rule of law? What rule of law??

      It's chilling that these psychopaths are in positions of power.

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