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I agree with you except Obama is only going to be president for one more year. Unless he gets reelected ... but let's not kid ourselves, it's very unlikely that that will happen.
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US Senate passed a bill that allows congress to suspend Habeas Corpus indefinitely
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Falconv1.0
Smash Master
Honestly with the garbage republican candidates we have he does have more of a shot than he really should.
God this country's political situation disgusts me.
Pluvia
Hates Semicolons<br>;
Does any other first world country have anything like this?
Fighting against equality, having the ability to imprision without trial, all of this isn't exactly doing your world view any good.
Fighting against equality, having the ability to imprision without trial, all of this isn't exactly doing your world view any good.
Claire Diviner
President
Well ****... does that mean we're screwed anyway, or do we still have a chance?
Jim Morrison
Smash Authority
To be honest, Rome did need a dictator at that point.
There is some rumblings to undo that provision or include some wording that ensures due process
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ndaa_reversal/?akid=1117.677833.om9pe2&rd=1&t=2
some senators are behind it but I'm not really hopeful.
Master Xanthan
Smash Champion
I think we're pretty much screwed now. Better move out of country while we still can, lol.
You know this law specifically allows for detaining people outside of the US, right?
Master Xanthan
Smash Champion
Oh, my bad, I thought it was still for detaining anyone, wasn't aware they changed that.
Claire Diviner
President
So the U.S. is suddenly the police of the world. I'll be honest and say this doesn't surprise me one bit. It's no wonder a bunch of other foreign countries hate us.
Orboknown
Smash Hero
Claire Diviner
President
Eh, bad choice of word on my part I'll admit, not that it changes the point.
Orboknown
Smash Hero
No it doesn't, but i like to be historically correct.
Pluvia
Hates Semicolons<br>;
Well, policing all the developing countries anyway.
Always makes me wonder why you spend so much money on defense when the only countries you can go to war with are the ones without nukes, meaning their military probably isn't that good in the first place.
Always makes me wonder why you spend so much money on defense when the only countries you can go to war with are the ones without nukes, meaning their military probably isn't that good in the first place.
I agree, i feel like we're reaching a tipping point in a lot of different areas
RATED
Smash Lord
Elections and politics are just a game like football. Yes I just said that. The picture that LuigiToilet posted this : http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/illusion.PNG
Truth my friend.
Yes and I just said that at Smashboards.
Truth my friend.
Yes and I just said that at Smashboards.
Claire Diviner
President
I'll be honest and say that the U.S. actually chose their targets during the Iraq war. I could be wrong, but I'm guessing it wasn't the whole "weapons of mass destruction" reason that we went to Iraq in the first place; I'm betting that was a front for Bush to finish a quarrel from years back. Didn't his dad have a fight with Saddam at one point?
I guess the point is that we don't go to war with countries we can war with, more than the countries we will war with. Except Afghanistan... the terrorist groups there asked for it.
Maybe this 2012 "end of the world" thing isn't too farfetched after all?
I find politics to be more crooked than a child's "chicken scratch" handwriting. That said, the pic posted does best illustrate the lose/lose situation that politics have been for so many years now.
Orboknown
Smash Hero
Its quite possible it may not be the literal end of the world.Sol Diviner said:
Just a drastic change in how we live.
But thats another threads argument.
Claire Diviner
President
Well I meant that in a metaphorical sense...
Orboknown
Smash Hero
Then we agree.
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:D
I don't know about end of the world but...you know the theory that eventually the universe stops expanding and starts contracting back into the big crunch? Or maybe that was just in Solar 2...I feel like that's what's happening with the "social universe", A LOT of different things seem to be speeding towards collisions in our world right now. I don't know as though it will all hit the fan in 2012 either, but I do feel as if some serious **** is going down in the next 20-50 years, maybe less than that.