Conservatives, liberals fear broader anti-terror powers - sides unite to protest Justice's push

The Dallas Morning News ^ | April 13, 2003 | By MICHELLE MITTELSTADT / The Dallas Morning News

[AAABEST]

I think your #36 was meant for me. I also think you're 100% correct.

They're useless to conservatives not only because they don't do anything but run their faces, but also because they're not conservatives. Every position they take is statist or leftist.

People who hide do it for a reason.

[Cultural Jihad]

I don't endorse anything of the kind...

If the shoe fits, Sacco....

[eno_]

Yes. We would have the same or better - especially w.r.t. affirmative action - civil right situation without federal intervention.

You are mistaking showcase cases for general progress. The Old South might have been around a little longer, but it would have been just as extinct as it is today.

All that without taking into account the large negative effects of federal civil rights "enforcement." Or do you think the Civil Right Commission hasn't been a negative influence for about three decades - since LBJ - now?

[eno_]

You have the 50's and early 60's confused with pre-New Deal America.

As for immigration controls against Nazis and Communists, those never had a negative effect on U.S. citizens, and we should be at least as dilligent about Islamo-fascists.

Would we be freeer with a much-smaller FedGov? What do you think?

[Cultural Jihad]

We conservatives just happen to not agree with you fringe anarcho-ideologue moral-liberals that traffic tickets equate to a 'constitutional crisis.'

[sinkspur]

People who hide do it for a reason.

You are demanding that FReepers reveal their identity, yet you rail against the government for wanting to know who terrorists are?

You don't see the irony in this?

[Roscoe]

Shall I also send the wakeup call after the Iraqis use WMDs?

Equating the government of the United States with Saddam's vanishing regime.

Senator John F. Kerry would be proud of you.

[eno_]

No irony at all. Freeper are proud to be freepers. Look at all the pictures posted of freeps.

Narcs and jackboot lickers, like the Elian Riaders, hide behind masks.

[Roscoe]

Let's re-ban pornography and abortion

Unintended consequences strike again.

[sinkspur]

No irony at all. Freeper are proud to be freepers.

I've been here five years, and nobody has a clue as to who I am. I've read too many horror stories of FReepers who have identified themselves publicly and been harrassed to the point of having to change IPs.

Anyone who identifies themselves in a public forum of any kind is a fool.

[eno_]

Got any links to horror stories?

[sinkspur]

Got any links to horror stories?

You've got to be kidding. You want me to tell you about FReepers who've been outed so they can be outed some more?

Why don't you use your real name as your moniker? Got something to hide?

[Roscoe]

Why don't you use your real name as your moniker? Got something to hide?

[crickets]

[eno_]

No, and you are complaining too much. If I were interested in doing something bad to a freeper, I'd Google up those "horror stories" myself - if they existed.

I'm questioning your credibility. How about you cite something?

[Roscoe]

You called his bluff, he folded.

Good call.

[TLBSHOW]

Grover Norquist is a helper of terrorist font groups in America!

[eno_]

I'm not the one advocating for a surveillance state. After you, Alphonse.

[Cultural Jihad]

Not so surprisingly, the few instances of Nazi-like intimidation tactics I have heard about were all committed by self-avowed libertarians.

[Roscoe]

I'm not the one advocating for a surveillance state.

You were demanding that Freepers reveal their personal information but when called upon to live up to your own words you tucked tail.

No surprise there.