Subject: Civil Liberties Pool

From: iDRMRSR <alex.i.thymia@depression.org>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Sun, Sep 16, 2001 6:22 PM
Message-ID: <011D9F2CD616FE2C.D0C3D5B88253BF34.5723D1A95F871736@lp.airnews.net>

I hereby offer to start the very first SubG pool. The prize will be a
renewal membership and, to make it even more sweet, after the Rupsture,
I'll trade seats with the winner if my seat turns out to be better!
That's quite a tangible reward these days where facts are hard to hold
on to.

My pool, which ends the day it happens, involves predicting the date
when the first journalist will be charged with aiding and abetting the
Enemy by broadcasting a breaking news event before the PTB has had a
chance to sanitize it. The journalist actually has to be imprisoned.

You know what I mean here. Last Monday this Pink Country was, at least
on the outside, a free society. Though it was necessary, it only took
about an hour for our precious freedom to travel interstate without
restrictions to be withdrawn from us. Yes, that day it was NECESSARY.
But as this whole sorry ass saga continues, they're going to hide behind
National Security and do these things routinely out of CONVENIENCE!

One by one the Constitutional privileges will fall by the wayside in the
name of some bogeyman allegedly lurking around some corner. I figure
the First Amendment (like WTC #7) will soon be the next tower of freedom
to collapse. In times of war, of course, this is totally unavoidable,
and I regrettably submit. But, I sure would like to remember the day
and hour they first fell as clearly as the events of last Tuesday.

So, on that note, I predict the first newsman to be jailed will occur on
September 23rd, 2001. Remember, that poor soul won't be able to hire
Johnny Cochran and whine all the way to the Supreme Court. Not in their
lifetime, anyhow. If I was a newsman now, I'd be out stocking up on
"soap on a rope", believe me.

Hell, Carnivore is probably reporting this post to the CIA already, and
they're probably [CENSORED]
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Subject: Re: Civil Liberties Pool
From: "Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@home.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Sun, Sep 16, 2001 7:48 PM
Message-ID: <XSap7.16882$707.9223448@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>

"iDRMRSR" <alex.i.thymia@depression.org> wrote in message
news:011D9F2CD616FE2C.D0C3D5B88253BF34.5723D1A95F871736@lp.airnews.net...
> I hereby offer to start the very first SubG pool. The prize will be a
> renewal membership and, to make it even more sweet, after the Rupsture,
> I'll trade seats with the winner if my seat turns out to be better!
> That's quite a tangible reward these days where facts are hard to hold
> on to.
>
> My pool, which ends the day it happens, involves predicting the date
> when the first journalist will be charged with aiding and abetting the
> Enemy by broadcasting a breaking news event before the PTB has had a
> chance to sanitize it. The journalist actually has to be imprisoned.
>
> You know what I mean here. Last Monday this Pink Country was, at least
> on the outside, a free society. Though it was necessary, it only took
> about an hour for our precious freedom to travel interstate without
> restrictions to be withdrawn from us. Yes, that day it was NECESSARY.
> But as this whole sorry ass saga continues, they're going to hide behind
> National Security and do these things routinely out of CONVENIENCE!
>
> One by one the Constitutional privileges will fall by the wayside in the
> name of some bogeyman allegedly lurking around some corner. I figure
> the First Amendment (like WTC #7) will soon be the next tower of freedom
> to collapse. In times of war, of course, this is totally unavoidable,
> and I regrettably submit. But, I sure would like to remember the day
> and hour they first fell as clearly as the events of last Tuesday.
>
> So, on that note, I predict the first newsman to be jailed will occur on
> September 23rd, 2001. Remember, that poor soul won't be able to hire
> Johnny Cochran and whine all the way to the Supreme Court. Not in their
> lifetime, anyhow. If I was a newsman now, I'd be out stocking up on
> "soap on a rope", believe me.
>
> Hell, Carnivore is probably reporting this post to the CIA already, and
> they're probably [CENSORED]

It's too late. They already jailed a journalist about a month ago, before
they even had an excuse. A woman interviewed a guy in jail, then refused to
give up her notes to the cops, claiming it wasn't HER job to find their
evidence for them (not to mention the guy was already in prison!).
>
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Subject: Re: Civil Liberties Pool
From: John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Sun, Sep 16, 2001 7:18 PM
Message-ID: <3BA53329.2792D68E@carbon.cudenver.edu>

iDRMRSR wrote:
<snip>
>
> One by one the Constitutional privileges will fall by the wayside in the
> name of some bogeyman allegedly lurking around some corner. I figure
> the First Amendment (like WTC #7) will soon be the next tower of freedom
> to collapse.
<snip>

Don't count on it. The constitution clearly states
***********************
******* and if the ***************** ever tried to *************
they wouldn't
**************** even if ***********************************.
****************
isn't just a ***************** but it is **********************. I
can't believe
you really think ***************************.

--
John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."
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Subject: Re: Civil Liberties Pool
From: "Ricky Nielsen" <Rickyn@lor.net>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Mon, Sep 17, 2001 1:04 AM
Message-ID: <ovfp7.40$BN5.2066481@news2.randori.com>

A woman told me today that " this is exactly why we need more gun control"
When I pointed out that they had used knifes she just waved her hands and
said "she doubted that ,they must have had guns' they'(presumably the
newscasters i didn't ask who' they 'were) had covered it up because they
didn't want to anger the NRA" I recon that is why she was telling me, my
pickup has a nra sticker.
>

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