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Group flies blimp over NSA building in protest
Deseret News ^ | Friday, June 27 2014 8:55 a.m. MDT | Pat Reavy,

Posted on 06/27/2014 10:35:27 PM PDT by Mortrey

A California-based group that has been battling the National Security Agency for years in lawsuits flew a giant blimp over Utah's NSA Data Center Friday.

(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: datacenter; nsa; spying
" At least for now, thumbing your nose at the government is not illegal. ..."

At least for now.

1 posted on 06/27/2014 10:35:27 PM PDT by Mortrey
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To: Mortrey

Bump


2 posted on 06/27/2014 10:38:55 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: Mortrey

Probably the closest we will ever come to tar and feathers again.


3 posted on 06/27/2014 10:39:34 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Mortrey

Counting down how fast this becomes an Anti-Mormon thread, because it’s in Utah. There’s been sooooooo many today.


4 posted on 06/27/2014 10:45:03 PM PDT by Ripliancum (Mosiah 29:27. Look it up.)
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To: Ripliancum

What the hell are you talking about?


5 posted on 06/27/2014 10:48:46 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: Mortrey

“Parker Higgen, of the San Francisco-based group Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., he — along with a pilot from Greenpeace — flew a 135-foot blimp over the data center with a banner that stated: “NSA. Illegally spying below.”

The group, he said, was trying to raise awareness for its new website, standagainstspying.org/.”


6 posted on 06/27/2014 10:49:33 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: Second Amendment First

7 posted on 06/27/2014 11:05:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Ripliancum

Fail.
In a manner similar to Godwin’s Law.
Take a card from the punishment card deck and read it aloud.
Disregard the one mentioning a tidal wave a crazed ferrets.
Perform pennence.
Drink coffee.


8 posted on 06/27/2014 11:05:57 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: doc1019

I guess you haven’t seen the umpteen Mormon bashing threads today on FR. Anything and everything that can be connected to such seem to be used to that end. As the NSA facility is in the most conservative and most Mormon county of Utah, I predict the usual suspects will try to do their thing here too.

That’s the “hell” I’m talking about.

In before that happens...


9 posted on 06/27/2014 11:06:18 PM PDT by Ripliancum (Mosiah 29:27. Look it up.)
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To: doc1019

Near-single-issue posters are funny.


10 posted on 06/27/2014 11:16:38 PM PDT by TheZMan (Buy more ammo.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Is bumping the blimp similar to rocking the boat?


11 posted on 06/27/2014 11:17:55 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Ripliancum

So far, the only person talking about it here is you.
Trying to hijack the thread into a self fulfilling prophecy isn’t right.


12 posted on 06/27/2014 11:18:57 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine; Jet Jaguar

Not certain, but I bet some bizarre websites best not viewed just added some keywords to their filters that read “blimp bumping”, the pages brought up requiring a complete mindwipe after viewing.


13 posted on 06/27/2014 11:21:18 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

Don’t tell Laz!


14 posted on 06/28/2014 5:54:41 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Darksheare

I can see how you might feel that way, but Just look at the latest post from one of the usual suspects. They just can’t NOT make a connection in their comments if it’s Utah. Here I was “in before..”, so it hopefully won’t happen here.

I’m sorry if I hijacked this important thread, but If you want to see exactly what I’m talking about, see this new thread this morning…

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3173471/posts


15 posted on 06/28/2014 6:56:43 AM PDT by Ripliancum (Mosiah 29:27. Look it up.)
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To: Mortrey
It is balloon.
16 posted on 06/28/2014 7:08:47 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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