Brianv5
Low Level Functionary
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join:2001-01-20
Keyser, WV
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Re: My name is Tax
Actually, if you think about it.... The American Revolution started with less than is going on today. Throw taxes, war and econmy in the mix... its a wonder there has been a revolution yet!
NO, I'm not advertising for one... just saying that's all.
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oliphant5
Got Identity?
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join:2003-05-24
Corona, CA
2 edits | There is one starting in California. Governor ousted...lameass laws getting repealed...taxes repealed...
Revolución |
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Duo Maxwell
What? Stop Looking At Me Like That
join:2003-03-31
Racine, WI
1 edit | reply to Brianv5
Viva la revolution!!! Why don't we just start one already then? I'm game.
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Sprinter99
join:2003-10-10
Grants Pass, OR
2 edits | I'm in, but make no mistake as to who will be in charge...
This just popped up in random fortunes: If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom;
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too. -- W. Somerset Maugham |
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qsoak
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join:2003-10-30
Long Beach, CA
1 edit | reply to Brianv5
said by Brianv5  :
Actually, if you think about it.... The American Revolution started with less than is going on today. Throw taxes, war and econmy in the mix... its a wonder there has been a revolution yet!
Hi BrianV et al- This is your friendly NSA Echelon computer. I'm afraid that based on your last post(s), I'm going to have to have some men visit you at your home(s) on Friday morning. Please have ready all internet access records, a complete list of friends, enemies and references (we will need to chat with them too)  Also, it would be in your best interest to amass a pile of documentation, ahead of time, proving beyond a reasonable doubt that you are not a seditious operative, subversive, terrorist, or someone who has made fun of "Dub-ya" for any reason at all.
We actually have no issue with your first paragraph. We key on those words all the time. We here at Echelon are not really human but we understand human frustration and the need to vent occasionally. Your second statement (quoted below) has flagged you for a follow up visit. Come on BrianV, we all (at Echelon) know what that really means, and you will too when we're done explaining it to you.
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NO, I'm not advertising for one... just saying that's all.
If you feel you have received this friendly notice of anti-patriotic e-mail violations, in error, well it's probably your error.
Upon completion of our follow up visit, you will most likely experience one of the following: 1.) If we cannot find a statute that you are in violation of and, John Ashcroft can't make one up real quick then you will be released (being released does not guarantee you will be allowed to keep your e-mail generating apparatus) 2.) You may be required to perform a certain number of hours of community service work in your area (yes, we know where you live). Most likely you will be required to spend a set amount of hours at various George Bush fund raisers and / or rallies working as a SMILING, HAPPY member of a large, adoring crowd. Failure to smile may cause you to move to the last action. 3.) you could just disappear for a long, long time to an unknown location, without ever really being charged for a crime.
LOL - But I have to end this now because I am scaring myself. I guess the Founding Fathers and Boston Tea Party attendees might have actually had an advantage over us because of their technology at the time. Can you just picture them discussing Echelon or some other federal "monitoring" program at the first continental congress? "Hmmm, should we add this one to the constitution? I don't know. I could go either way on it."
OOPS! Edited to remove the Echelon system description / brag tag signature line. (For national security reasons, of course) |
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