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Penn & Teller give some airtime to the Bullshit that is the Patriot Act, including some telling thoughts from ex-Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA), once an advocate, now a strong detractor. At least someone’s paying attention while Sensenbrenner and the GOP Gone Wild are attempting to bury their dangerous abuses of power.

Large video, about 17 minutes, and probably not safe for work! Unless you work at the Homeland Security Department or any other Government office. In which case, safe or not, those folks need to see and hear what they have wrought.

Video courtesy of our friends at Crooks & Liars with an assist from BRAD SHOW operative, David Edwards.

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  1. 1)
    Kira said on 6/14/2005 @ 12:50pm PT: [Permalink]

    Today I have no patience. They are all worms. They are traitors@@

    I’ve been an American Citizen for at least half a century. Robet Redford says we can’t make an impression on these maggots (my analogy) by being angry with them.

    What did he mean?

    Connect the dots (said Redford) – McCartheyism, Watergate — the current regime. When will people learn?

    They (the Republicommies) hold the power until we take it from them. How will we do that?

    These guys are anti-American.

    No "heil" from me.

    W

  2. 2)
    Kira said on 6/14/2005 @ 12:52pm PT: [Permalink]

    W ?? Interesting. Absolutely. But I didn’t put it there intentionally. It was a booboo.

    It stands, though. Perfect.

  3. 3)
    jimmo said on 6/14/2005 @ 1:28pm PT: [Permalink]

    Penn & Teller are the two scuzziest fuzz balls around. They are not funny, their humor is degrading to humanity, they are witless and clueless.

    Other than that, liberals seem to enjoy their humor.

  4. 4)
    BUSHW@CKER said on 6/14/2005 @ 1:29pm PT: [Permalink]

    Yup KIRA, "W" just about sums up all the world’s present ills in one economical character!

    Perfect!

  5. 5)
    jimmo said on 6/14/2005 @ 1:30pm PT: [Permalink]

    Kira:

    Robert Redford is a wart face old has been that nobody cares about except for fawning old women that never married.

    I suggest you renounce your citizenship and move to Canada with the rest of the losers that said they would but have not yet so I guess they were…………..LIARS!

  6. 7)
    Peggy said on 6/14/2005 @ 1:42pm PT: [Permalink]

    Hi, Kira – Your words are my feelings. Americans will have to physically remove them from office. How? I don’t know. But you can hold your own elections without including them in the process other than voting. With the results of the elections, then have them physically removed from public buildings by the Sheriff. Otherwise, they don’t care what anyone "says" about anything. You can yell all you want. It falls on their deaf ears. However, you must still keep yelling in order to rally the American people to action against these moronic, dangerous thugs.

  7. 8)
    Peggy said on 6/14/2005 @ 1:45pm PT: [Permalink]

    In other words, you must control the registration, voting methods, and the counting of the votes. It is not a difficult process. It does require the effort of serious, dedicated people to conduct an honest election.

  8. 10)
    MMIIXX said on 6/14/2005 @ 2:36pm PT: [Permalink]

    Don’t worry about jimmo he’s just a smear on the anus of evil.
    even bush has hanger-on’s

  9. 11)
    MMIIXX said on 6/14/2005 @ 2:42pm PT: [Permalink]

    jimmo thinks "Penn & Teller are the two scuzziest fuzz balls around. They are not funny, their humor is degrading to humanity, they are witless and clueless.

    AND I THOUGHT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT
    "bush and cheney"

  10. 13)
    Chabuka said on 6/14/2005 @ 3:27pm PT: [Permalink]

    Here’s one for Jimmo…..

    The persistent inability to change one’s views when confronted with solid proofs that those views are in error is one of the key, defining characteristics of mental illness and/or personality disorder…..

    If "us" liberals were more like you conservatives..you would not be allowed to say your piece or allowed to take up space on an already crowded earth..you would be squashed like the insect you are..you can’t think for yourself..you are just burning up oxygen that would be better served on an individual that might cure cancer or AIDS…in other words we don’t really need your type fouling our air

  11. 14)
    COLLEEN said on 6/14/2005 @ 3:42pm PT: [Permalink]

    MMIIXX
    Ha ha ha Too Funny. Like drooling over the DSM.
    Also. It takes too long on dial up to download videos. Is there a transcript?

  12. 15)
    Kira said on 6/14/2005 @ 8:09pm PT: [Permalink]

    I second your words, chabuka! Insects are preferable to freaks like the jimmoes of the world.

    I’m actually sorry I said jimmo is a communist. There is nothing wrong with true communism. It has become associated with corrupt individuals.

    Will democracy be forever associated in a negative way after bush is through with it? I’m truly disgusted with the neoCONS and their Klingons. What total jerks.

    Thank you MMIIXX and Bushw@cker and Peggy! Thank goodness for sane people. Love you guys!

  13. 16)
    Kira said on 6/14/2005 @ 8:15pm PT: [Permalink]

    Colleen! Sorry – I meant to add you to my list of sane people.

    I’m not feeling very forgiving tonight. I’m in a pit-bull frame of mind. I love pit-bulls!

  14. 17)
    Terrence Janus said on 6/15/2005 @ 10:09pm PT: [Permalink]

    Pen and teller aren’t liberals. They’re both fellows at the cato institute. They’re Libertarians.

  15. 18)
    m3 said on 6/15/2005 @ 11:59pm PT: [Permalink]

    Jimmo.. if you’d seen the previous episode I’m sure you’d have had a damp patch in your pants.. it was about conspiracies being bullshit.

    @Terrance (#17)… Jimmo just thinks anyone he doesn’t like is a "liberal". – He doesn’t have a clue what it means, in fact, he doesn’t have a clue, period – so arguing with him using facts and logic is a waste of time!! – He supports the war but won’t fuck off from this blog to go and join it, he’s a pussy, hypocrite and coward, or as we call them… a repug.

    peace!!

  16. 19)
    Robert Lockwood Mills said on 6/15/2005 @ 5:21am PT: [Permalink]

    Robert Redford might have meant, "Showing anger at right-wingers won’t impress them, so don’t bother." If that was his meaning, I agree.

    Bush, like most sociopathic people with low self-esteem, actually enjoys being hated. He thrives on anger in others. Many (not all) of his followers are similar types, including most of the trolls on bradblog. So don’t give them the satisfaction they get from making you angry.

    Just keep citing facts. Keep making noise about what is happening to our democracy. Understand we’re winning, albeit gradually. We’re smarter than they are, and we know they stole two elections in order to gain power. With every day that passes, more and more Americans come to understand this.

  17. 20)
    MrBlueSky said on 6/15/2005 @ 8:11am PT: [Permalink]

    Do you guys all fear that, as the noose tightens on these Repugs, they will retaliate with another 9/11?

    These people cheapen life.

    MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, THIS IS A REIGN OF TERROR THAT RIVALS HITLER AND STALIN (WILL PROBABLY KILL AS MANY PEOPLE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS.)

    When these evil people are taken out, expect them to take literally the whole world with them

    Remember that these people have their fingers on the buttons of our nuclear arsenal!

    There will be hell to pay when it all comes crashing down.

    I am scared to death of these criminals. I would much rather deal with the terrorists than these neo cons.

  18. 22)
    Sarah said on 6/15/2005 @ 8:52am PT: [Permalink]

    MRBLUESKY #20,21- YES!! I am in great fear of this also! As the noose tightens, will they retaliate with another 9/11, and then install Martial Law! These criminals will obviously stop at NOTHING to further their evil agenda. I am so worried for Americans, I can’t stop thinking about this very issue! I sincerely hope with every fibre of my being that the truth will "OUT" before they can commit more horror on the American people and the world! Already "they" are painting Mr. Reynolds as a "nutjob"! (A former Bush insider who has just stated his opinion about 9/11 recently)

  19. 23)
    proforma said on 7/13/2005 @ 12:00am PT: [Permalink]

    Your IPs have been logged. You have to right to remain silent and stay where you are now while we are coming to get you. It is too late :plain:

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