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[jazzfish]

Lawyer Arrested for Wearing a 'Peace' T-Shirt: You know, I wouldn't be a peacenik if the War side were willing to treat American citizens like human beings. Freedom is Slavery.

Bureaucrats get EBay Fever: "So far, $16,281 has been made selling objects taken from passengers at Oakland and Sacramento airports."

Sophie's World: I'm about forty pages into it. It's not a novel, at least not yet; it's a very entertaining textbook on the history of philosophy. I'm enjoying it. The device of "Sophie reads a bit of philosophy, then Sophie thinks about it" may yet get irritating, but it hasn't so far. (And I will be extremely disappointed if "Sophie Amundsen" isn't a linguistic joke on "Wisdom, the son of Man." Please don't tell me if it isn't.)

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[rubinpdf.livejournal.com]

Yes... That's why I was (and am) against so-called Campaign Finance Reform. Bush should have vetoed the legislation, but he was afraid of the bad press the veto would muster (also he assumed that when it reaches the Supreme Court, it would be struck down as unconstitional).

As to the Airport Screeners, I would have prefered if they'd been privatized rather than federalized. Part of the problem now is that they only thing they can do is conviscate personal items - they can't actually look for potential terrorist because profiling would be racist. Sure just keep on telling yourself that the 80 year old woman and 3 year old child are just as likely to attempt a terrorist act as that individual of arab descent.

[jazzfish]

I wish I could find the link-- somewhere, there's a good article about how profiling makes it *easier* for terrorists to defeat the system. All they have to do is find people that don't get pulled aside for questioning after several runs through the system...