Posted on 12/30/2005 7:19:44 PM PST by rlmorel
...I hope the president doesn't continue to hide behind such transparent and irrelevant justifications. Congress has amended the 1978 FISA law over time, most recently with the passage of the PATRIOT Act -- and there is no reason to think we wouldn't do so again -- if we knew what the administration is doing. If the president needs more powers to lawfully protect the American people from terrorism, then he should come to Congress to seek modification of current laws. The president has failed to provide a sufficient legal basis for his actions; instead he and his Cabinet spent the week refusing to negotiate with Congress and opposing bipartisan efforts to extend the PATRIOT Act for three more months.
Just this past week there were public reports that a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he had gone to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto. Following his professor's instructions to use original source material, this young man discovered that he, too, was on the government's watch list.
Think of the chilling effect on free speech and academic freedom when a government agent shows up at your home -- after you request a book from the library.
Incredibly, we are now in an era where reading a controversial book may be evidence of a link to terrorists...
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
The thing that I find MOST delicious about this is that there can be only a few explanations for this particularly tasty error:
1.) The error was not noticed by the Boston Globe staff when they reviewed it. This reason is most entertaining, because it shows them to be complete idiots, particularly since communism is the ideology they seem to be most sympathetic to. Additionally, the liberals like to paint themselves as more refined and educated. Yeah, right.
2.) The error was noticed, but they did not contact Swimmer Ted. For what reason, I don't know...maybe they thought he would get pissed at them, or maybe someone wanted to stab him in the back.
3.) The error was noticed, and they couldn't find Fat Teddy to let him know, and due to deadlines, posted it anyway so they didn't get scooped or something.
4.) Op-ed pieces are never screened for gross errors of spelling or factuality.
He was just drunk again, nothing more.
Didn't the kid involved break down and confess that it was a hoax?
Why is the fact that Ted Kennedy is an ignorant A$$hole news? This belongs more in proven facts of history. /sarc
Teddie the life guard doesn't know much of anything exept how to get a cork out of a bottle of gin.
This has since turned out to be a lie by the student in question.
Wasn't the Communist Manifesto was written by Osama Obama?
Use the article's headline, do not make up your own, this will prevent double posting.
He always has the excuse: I wrote this during cocktail hour.
I read somewhere that a majority of Harvard graduates believed that the phrase "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" was from the US Constitution!
On another aspect of this, did the Globe run any kind of correction / retraction about the phony college-kid-visited-by-government-agents story?
I believe that was the case. Same sorta outcome as the Tawana Brawley story. The press, and the leftists wanted it to be true. So it was.
Editors allow op-ed writers to freely flap their gums.
Lets show Teddy and his minions some love:
URL for site input: http://www.tedkennedy.com/journal/548/getting-answers-from-the-white-house-on-domestic-spying
DIVERS ?
This was a big fat hoax that hornswoggled the big fat Senator from Massachusetts
"Going through life, fat, drunk, and stupid.."
Good catch.
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