Good news on the domestic surveillance front

[Pergamos]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/23/house-amendment-nsa-bulk-surveillance

It may get voted down, or the bill it is being attached to might.  It also may not mean much, but it also might.  I'm maintaining cautious optimism.

[Doktor Howl]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/23/house-amendment-nsa-bulk-surveillance

It may get voted down, or the bill it is being attached to might.  It also may not mean much, but it also might.  I'm maintaining cautious optimism.

The author of the amendment got bitched out for it (Cain already posted this).   

HOW DARE YOU, SIR?  HOW DARE YOU?
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[Pergamos]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/23/house-amendment-nsa-bulk-surveillance

It may get voted down, or the bill it is being attached to might.  It also may not mean much, but it also might.  I'm maintaining cautious optimism.

The author of the amendment got bitched out for it (Cain already posted this).   

HOW DARE YOU, SIR?  HOW DARE YOU?
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That he got bitched out seems like a good sign.

[Doktor Howl]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/23/house-amendment-nsa-bulk-surveillance

It may get voted down, or the bill it is being attached to might.  It also may not mean much, but it also might.  I'm maintaining cautious optimism.

The author of the amendment got bitched out for it (Cain already posted this).   

HOW DARE YOU, SIR?  HOW DARE YOU?
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That he got bitched out seems like a good sign.

Um.

The guy got bitched out for suggesting that the NSA not keep gathering data on citizens.

[Pergamos]

Right, that he got bitched out means that it is a credible threat.

[Random Probability]

Actually, it's worse for Them than just bitching him out over it.  He exposed a chink in their armor.  The People now have it in their heads that their opinion and their vote can bring down that whole house of cards.  Regular jackoffs like us can take away their toybox and they don't like it.  We've always been such nice, easily manipulated pets and now we just might be getting out of their control.  Just a little.

I'm reminded of that circus elephant being tethered with a tiny little rope.  This vote was the first sign that the elephant just realized how thin that rope really is...