The Specter-Cheney ‘Warrantless Surveillance Bill’ will leave a gaping hole in American civil rights by providing a tissue thin excuse for warrantless surveillance of Americans in America. Anyone who has any dealing with foreigners, as long as the state claims the surveillance is ‘aimed at foreigners’, will now be subject to surveillance at the pleasure of some faceless government employee…”in other words, if you call or do business with someone overseas, the government may be watching you”.
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Take a look at this… Jenna Jameson in a really strange bit of video weirdness. This is not the sort of thing you should ‘over-think’ in the comment section. August 1st, 2006 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
 An intriguing remark overheard, with no supporting context, at tonight’s bash at Samizdata HQ:
That sounds fascinating! July 29th, 2006 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
Most people believe that poor people should be free to trade with each other, and they should be free to buy and sell from us in the West. If people want to buy cheaper goods from abroad, and spend the money they save on food or medicines, they should be free to do so. Saving a few cents when buying a bag of rice makes little difference to you or me, or to the rich elite in poor countries. But to a poor family it could make the difference between eating at night, or going without. – Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, speaking Monday at the Globalisation Institute. July 26th, 2006 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
Israel is killing a lot more people in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah position which are located intentionally within populated towns and villages, than Hezbollah are killing in Israel targetting literally anyone with their random rocket attacks fired blindly into towns and cities… but Hezbollah’s poor ‘score’ is not for lack of trying.  July 23rd, 2006 | 37 comments - (Comments are closed)
In what bizarre universe is this guy ‘liberal’ while someone like me – who is strongly pro-gay marriage, pro-easy availability of pornography, against the stupid drug war, and stridently anti-authoritarian – is often described as ‘conservative’? If he’s a liberal, I’m a Prada handbag. July 5th, 2006 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. July 1st, 2006 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
I have little direct evidence about the atrocities in the Spanish civil war. I know that some were committed by the Republicans, and far more (they are still continuing) by the Fascists. But what impressed me then, and has impressed me ever since, is that atrocities are believed in or disbelieved in solely on grounds of political predilection. Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. June 23rd, 2006 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)
I am not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. June 20th, 2006 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
It is my understanding that, in law, First Amendment issues are decided with a preference for the least restrictive alternative. In this context, the PMRC’s demands are the equivalent of treating dandruff by decapitation – Frank Zappa discussing the Parents Music Resource Center, a pro-censorship group lead by Al Gore’s wife, Tipper Gore June 17th, 2006 | 20 comments - (Comments are closed)
In every language, the first word after “Mama!” that every kid learns to say is “Mine!” A system that doesn’t allow ownership, that doesn’t allow you to say “Mine!” when you grow up, has, to put it mildly, a fatal design flaw. June 16th, 2006 | 27 comments - (Comments are closed)
However this time it is nice to hear of Islamic extremists killing themselves in ways that do not involve blowing themselves up on a bus in London or in a pizzeria in Israel in order to murder a bunch of civilians. More of this and faster please. June 11th, 2006 | 68 comments - (Comments are closed)
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