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    New Congressional Leadership Prioritizes Wikileaks Investigation

    "We had high hopes after a recent Congressional hearing about Wikileaks, which appeared to focus more on the problem of overly secretive government rather than just blaming Wikileaks, that perhaps the US wouldn't go too far in its overreaction to the site. However, with a new leadership taking over Congress this week, apparently they've decided to prioritize investigating Wikileaks and are making the whole thing political, suggesting that the Justice Department has been "too slow and too weak" in dealing with the site. Rep. Darrell Issa, who is heading the "oversight committee," claims that the US government must do something about Wikileaks or "the world is laughing at this paper tiger we've become." "

    Full story here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...tigation.shtml



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    Issa's priorities are f'd. He should be investigating the DoJ, not whistleblowers.

    "the world is laughing at this paper tiger we've become."
    They'll be laughing even harder once "The Land of the Free" annuls Amendment I, you fascist tool.

    Issa. Issa. Issa. Conservatives can’t trust him. I have heard a few reports he has become too cozy with WH. Suspect deal might have been made. OR, he could be playing WH. Uncertain, but word is he might prove all bark and no bite. If Issa does not use his full authority to go after DOJ/WH then 2012 looking much better for Obama.

    Read more: http://newsflavor.com/politics/world...#ixzz1A5Xzkiuu
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    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
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    Remember when Irv Rubin, that JDL guy that joined the LP, tried to kill that tool Issa?

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    "the world is laughing at this paper tiger we've become."
    And that's all the politicians care about, looking strong and looking good, instead of actually being strong and being good. If they want to actually be strong and be good, then they need to go knock on Ron Paul's door and have a couple of tutoring sessions.
    "Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights." -Murray Rothbard

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    Quote Originally Posted by noxagol View Post
    and that's all the politicians care about, looking strong and looking good, instead of actually being strong and being good. If they want to actually be strong and be good, then they need to go knock on ron paul's door and have a couple of tutoring sessions.
    qftmft!
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

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    Rep. Darrell Issa, who is heading the "oversight committee," claims that the US government must do something about Wikileaks or "the world is laughing at this paper tiger we've become." "
    How exactly does he propose to do anything about Wikileaks? That just makes the US look weaker. Lashing out blindly at something that will most likely never be shut down pretty much has "paper tiger" written all over it.
    Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and that his justice cannot sleep forever. Thomas Jefferson

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    Sure, go ahead and investigate wikileaks, not anything they leaked that actually needs investigating.



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