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[Dutchling]

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[Moghjubar]

Petitioning the government for a redress of your grievances is now terrorism

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/21/official-says-water-complaints-act-of-terrorism/2445071/

I freaking called it. EVERYONE freaking called it. Everything is terrorism. Nothing is too sacred to be killed in the war against terrorism. Everything is terrorism.

That sounds like terrorist talk there....

[Truean]

Yes, My avatar is a cat-thulhu. Trueans is a hat and scarf cat.

Nadaka's cat-thulhu appears more devious, but Mittens is "looking" innocently cute while covering her tracks and being far worse.


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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-enron-ceo-skillings-prison-193328040.html

What? That's just perfect.... Enron.... The absolute poster-child for corruption and just.... 

[DWC]

Petitioning the government for a redress of your grievances is now terrorism

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/21/official-says-water-complaints-act-of-terrorism/2445071/

I am going to go cry silent manly tears for what was once a beautiful nation. Just like this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGu4AwL5Kho

Man, check on their complaints.

Free speech has always had a limit, you can't yell 'fire!' in a crowded movie theater as lame as that example is. You can't scream about the water supply being lethal if it actually isn't.

The tap water is fine. The fluoride keeps your teeth from developing cavities and your enamel intact and also helps guard your mind against communist influence.

Creating a panic over nothing can obviously be destructive.

[alway]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-enron-ceo-skillings-prison-193328040.html

What? That's just perfect.... Enron.... The absolute poster-child for corruption and just.... 

Don't forget this bit:

Skilling still has the longest sentence of more than two dozen former Enron executives, including Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, and others who pleaded guilty or were convicted of Enron-related crimes. All have served their prison terms.

[kaijyuu]

Petitioning the government for a redress of your grievances is now terrorism

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/21/official-says-water-complaints-act-of-terrorism/2445071/

I am going to go cry silent manly tears for what was once a beautiful nation. Just like this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGu4AwL5Kho

Man, check on their complaints.

Free speech has always had a limit, you can't yell 'fire!' in a crowded movie theater as lame as that example is. You can't scream about the water supply being lethal if it actually isn't.

The tap water is fine. The fluoride keeps your teeth from developing cavities and your enamel intact and also helps guard your mind against communist influence.

Creating a panic over nothing can obviously be destructive.

Yeah, but it isn't terrorism. That's the problem here; a politician/public official labeling everything presumably bad under terrorism, much like everything presumably bad was labeled communism in years past.

Whether the complaints were valid or not isn't relevant. The problem is they were calling complains terrorism

[Loud Whispers]

Free speech has always had a limit

No it doesn't.

you can't yell 'fire!' in a crowded movie theater as lame as that example is.

And then the boy who cried wolf was declared a terrorist to the state and summarily executed with hellfire missiles, instead of suffering the inherent ingrained social consequences.

You can't scream about the water supply being lethal if it actually isn't.

[There have been documented cases of American tap water setting on fire].

[scriver]

But it's not lethal unless you fall down dead within eight minutes!

[Aptus]

There have been documented cases of American tap water setting on fire.

That had something to do with fracking didn't it? Something about the gas leaking into the water reserves. There was some big kerfuffle about it some year ago.

Shit why don't I just google it.

EDIT: Yup Obviously a propaganda piece against fracking so take it with a grain of salt but I know it was all over the news some time ago.

[Pnx]

There's been some attempts to do fracking around here where we live... in order to do that they need to get the residents agree (they've attempted to offer pretty crappy compensation), to get people to agree they've sent out a bunch of pamphlets and letters, and... well frankly they claim that they only use sand and saltwater to do the fracking, and that it presents no danger to the environment, or groundwater...

These are blatent lies.

[Morrigi]

Okay, if terrorism is defined as committing a violent act in order to cause fear, then domestic abuse, armed robbery, direct police intervention during protests, any excessive force by law enforcement, "shock and awe" tactics used by the military, "enhanced interrogation", etc. etc. all qualify as terrorism. This is really a double-edged sword. The government cannot widen the definition of terrorism without becoming terrorists themselves.

[alway]

There have been documented cases of American tap water setting on fire.

That had something to do with fracking didn't it? Something about the gas leaking into the water reserves. There was some big kerfuffle about it some year ago.

Shit why don't I just google it.

EDIT: Yup Obviously a propaganda piece against fracking so take it with a grain of salt but I know it was all over the news some time ago.

As it turned out, that case nothing to do with fracking. He just had a poorly built well into which methane was seeping. There have been studies linking fracking to increased methane in wells, but the only actual risk from it is methane building up in the somewhere air after being released from the water; which is mostly just an issue of ventilation.

[Nadaka]

There have been documented cases of American tap water setting on fire.

That had something to do with fracking didn't it? Something about the gas leaking into the water reserves. There was some big kerfuffle about it some year ago.

Shit why don't I just google it.

EDIT: Yup Obviously a propaganda piece against fracking so take it with a grain of salt but I know it was all over the news some time ago.

Not propaganda... The well water at my fathers fathers farm in Minnesota was flammable for decades.

[Scelly9]

There have been documented cases of American tap water setting on fire.

That had something to do with fracking didn't it? Something about the gas leaking into the water reserves. There was some big kerfuffle about it some year ago.

Shit why don't I just google it.

EDIT: Yup Obviously a propaganda piece against fracking so take it with a grain of salt but I know it was all over the news some time ago.

Not propaganda... The well water at my fathers fathers farm in Minnesota was flammable for decades.

Just because it's true doesn't mean it's not propaganda.

[10ebbor10]

Free speech has always had a limit

No it doesn't.

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Yes it did. Your rights end where the other's rights begin.