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WWJD? It’s become a favored cliche among the Christian set in the USA, as easily put aside as corporate cliches like “think outside the box”. It’s astonishing how many Christian Americans can go through the motions of worshiping Jesus without actually considering what he said.
The admonition, for example, to “turn the other cheek” [...]

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The person who submits the most popular entry wins a free political button featuring the 4th Amendment to the Constitution.

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This year, in the ultimate betrayal of trust, Democrats in Congress are working with Republicans to extend the Patriot Act, and continue its abuses without significant reform.

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Republicans are silent on torture because their man, George W. Bush, supported it. And now, Democrats are silent on torture because their man, Barack Obama, is enabling it. In opinion polls, large numbers of Americans now say they support the use of torture.

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You may say that it’s okay, because the man going through the secret trial, closed to the public, is a terrorist. The truth is, though, that you don’t know that he’s a terrorist. He’s never been convicted of any terrorism-related crime. All you know is that the government says that he’s a terrorist.

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Bloggers know how important it is for the survival of our democracy that American citizens actually know what their government is doing. Bloggers work to expose the concealed aspects of our federal government and bring those aspects into the light. That’s why bloggers are against John McCain for President.

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The unreason of Homeland Security easily matches the unreason of anti-Communism. War, arbitrary imprisonment, unjust trials, torture, government spying against citizens, and on and on, assault the machines that maintain reason in our nation.

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We designed our own logo in satirical protest of the Homeland Security seal, to represent the true nature of the Department of Homeland Security. It’s not security that Homeland Security brings us, after all. Rather, Homeland Security serves to create insecurity. So we remade the Homeland Security seal as the new symbol of a virtual Department of the U.S. federal government: The Department of Homeland Insecurity.

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Ten extra points for mentioning that the words come originally from Benjamin Franklin. It drives the right wing to froth at the mouth with fury when you point out that one of the Founding Fathers was not in favor of the Commander In Chief wrecking American freedom just to make some nervous nellies feel more secure.

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Now, we know that the government has been conducting massive electronic surveillance against American citizens, grabbing information about our telephone calls, mail and email, and internet habits, as well as our commercial activity and travel patterns, and putting all that information into a giant government database that allows the federal government to track our private activities.

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