Of course, there's lots of irony to go around here. Timothy Edgar -- who was the director of privacy and civil liberties for the White House National Security staff under Obama (and also did privacy/civil liberties work in the Bush administration) has noted that the leaking of the contents of his phone calls actually means that Flynn's own civil rights have been violated and even suggests he gives the ACLU a call (oh, and another layer of irony: Edgar has been warning about how Flynn and others in the Trump administration might trample on civil liberties... and yet here, he's arguing that Flynn's civil liberties have been violated.)
I wouldn't necessarily call that irony. On the face of it, it looks like... absence of hypocrisy. Principle, even.
But it sure looks to me like there are warring factions among his own team -- Pence, Priebus, Bannon, and Conway, and their people, all at odds with one another.
Inconceivable. They all seem like such nice people.
Numerous studies in the TSA’s files found that people who are trained to look for these sorts of behaviors are worse at lie detection than people who are not trained at all.
Better just to implement a "dummy data" password for your devices, something that appears to unlock it and opens to a useless collection of games, cat pictures, a few innocuous phone contacts, and a fake calendar or such.
Re: Simple way to change Trump's position on Forfeiture
If a single officer seized any property belonging to Mr. Trump himself I feel confident that the President would go on the warpath against asset forfeiture.
I'm not so confident of this. I'm sure Trump would object to his own assets being seized, but to be able to take his own experience and imagine it happening to others would require empathy, and that is one asset he does not possess.
Re: Don't why even have even customs checkpoints. Every person in the world has a right to come here and stay.
This won't stand. It's just lawyers being lawyers.
Lawyers being lawyers is how the whole court thing works.
That said, if the Administration wants to send non-lawyers instead to the next hearing -- maybe even send Trump himself to argue his case -- I certainly won't object.
I think it's more trying to wear us down with repeated wall-of-text stupidity. While you're busing crafting reasonable replies and arguments, they're just mindlessly pasting nonsense like the good little drones they are.
It's no way to hold a debate, but then that's not really what they're looking for.
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I wouldn't necessarily call that irony. On the face of it, it looks like... absence of hypocrisy. Principle, even.
On second thought, maybe that is ironic.
I'm so confused. This is exhausting.
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Maybe, just maybe, one thing and another thing are two different things.
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Inconceivable. They all seem like such nice people.
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From the ACLU report:
oh.
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Re: Simple way to change Trump's position on Forfeiture
I'm not so confident of this. I'm sure Trump would object to his own assets being seized, but to be able to take his own experience and imagine it happening to others would require empathy, and that is one asset he does not possess.
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Shall we start a pool?
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Other folks like techdirt, for example?
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Re: Don't why even have even customs checkpoints. Every person in the world has a right to come here and stay.
Lawyers being lawyers is how the whole court thing works.
That said, if the Administration wants to send non-lawyers instead to the next hearing -- maybe even send Trump himself to argue his case -- I certainly won't object.
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It's no way to hold a debate, but then that's not really what they're looking for.
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sure. right. uh-huh.
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Re: Re: 10 steps to Fascism..
Since you're so unhappy here, I have a suggestion for you.
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