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Friday, January 2, 2004 |
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FBI Issues Alert Against Almanac Carriers: The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning. [Kuro5hin.org]
Soon there will be an alert for people carrying mobile phones, for the same reason...
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Free Republic is an online story and discussion site with an explicitly conservative bias. The site proclaims itself to be "an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web." Intrigued, I proceeded to offer some comments to stories there, addressing some factual errors and dissenting with some conservative views. The result was a quick lesson in the right-wing view of free expression. [Kuro5hin.org]
To be clear, the right-wing view of free expression is you can say anything you want, as long as it's the same thing we're saying. Dissent is not only unpatriotic, it's disallowed.
5:43:54 PM
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