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beaven
04-18-2013, 11:16 AM
The tallies: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll117.xml

How did your rep vote? Mine voted in favor so I sent him a little chastisement on twitter.

Lucille
04-18-2013, 11:25 AM
Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) and voted YAY with the police statists on the "right."

I told her enough with the surveillance state already, and that "The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" is already the laughing stock of the world thanks to Washington's bipartisan destruction of so many of our rights, and quoted Higgs (http://blog.independent.org/2010/03/16/nothing-outside-the-state/):

"The areas of life that remain outside the government’s participation, taxation, subsidization, regulation, surveillance, and other intrusion or control have become so few and so trivial that they scarcely merit mention. We verge ever closer upon the condition in which everything that is not prohibited is required. Yet, the average American will declare loudly that he is a free man and that his country is the freest in the world. Thus, in a country where more and more is for the state, where virtually nothing is outside the State, and where, aside from pointless complaints, nothing against the State is permitted, Americans have become ideal fascist citizens. Like the average German during the years that Hitler ruled Germany, most Americans today, inhabiting one of the most pervasively controlled countries in the history of the world, think they are free."

I guess she fine with that.