Comments on: The more things change, the more they stay the same. https://habitablezone.com/2013/09/04/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same-2/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:51:50 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SteveS https://habitablezone.com/2013/09/04/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same-2/#comment-26600 SteveS Fri, 06 Sep 2013 14:35:05 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=37405#comment-26600 Reminds me of the National Defense Authorization Act that Obama signed into law in 2011. There is a statue in it that says the military can detain anyone anywhere including right here in the US they think might be a terrorist or leans toward signs of terrorism without charge, without trial and without a lawyer for legal defense. Thank goodness the ACLU is fighting it, but I doubt they will get anywhere and the media is not helping by being quite about it. Why do you think the NSA is snooping on everybody's emails and phone calls? Visit the wrong sites online and you will get a visit from men in dark suits. It has already happened more than once. You think that DOD training manual on who is a potential extremist is hogwash? Obama has made a league of his own and goes way beyond the safeguards Bush had in place. Reminds me of the National Defense Authorization Act that Obama signed into law in 2011. There is a statue in it that says the military can detain anyone anywhere including right here in the US they think might be a terrorist or leans toward signs of terrorism without charge, without trial and without a lawyer for legal defense. Thank goodness the ACLU is fighting it, but I doubt they will get anywhere and the media is not helping by being quite about it.

Why do you think the NSA is snooping on everybody’s emails and phone calls? Visit the wrong sites online and you will get a visit from men in dark suits. It has already happened more than once.

You think that DOD training manual on who is a potential extremist is hogwash?

Obama has made a league of his own and goes way beyond the safeguards Bush had in place.

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2013/09/04/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same-2/#comment-26585 bowser Thu, 05 Sep 2013 19:04:16 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=37405#comment-26585 Both candidates need support from the same large contributors to get elected. There is very little difference between them, but those differences are profound. One of the matters I find puzzling is that social programs such as free lunches or subsidized housing profits large corporate interests as much as the poor population. The farmers make money from the lunches, construction, banking and developers from the housing. I wonder why the Conservative opposition. Both candidates need support from the same large contributors to get elected. There is very little difference between them, but those differences are profound.

One of the matters I find puzzling is that social programs such as free lunches or subsidized housing profits large corporate interests as much as the poor population. The farmers make money from the lunches, construction, banking and developers from the housing. I wonder why the Conservative opposition.

]]> By: FrankC https://habitablezone.com/2013/09/04/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same-2/#comment-26582 FrankC Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:39:55 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=37405#comment-26582 I have said numerous times, there is way more difference in what our 2 parties say than what they do. I have said numerous times, there is way more difference in what our 2 parties say than what they do.

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