[NTLK] SOPA Legislation

[Ken Whitcomb]

Grant,
Sensing impending Randian or Hitlerian references, I move that we send  
this thread to a more appropriate forum.
Ken

On Jan 17, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Dennis Swaney wrote:

> You mean the DOJ run by Eric Holder? BTW, to what "legal opinion"  
> are you
> referring? Please post a link. Thank you.
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 15:39, Robert Stewart
> <robertdylanstewart at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The U.S. Department of Justice says you're wrong. It's all over the  
>> news.
>> Until that legal opinion gets challenged in an actual court, it is
>> inarguably more valid than your opinion that the appointments were
>> unconstitutional. The SCOTUS decides whether something is  
>> unconstitutional,
>> not senators, not representatives, and certainly not the public.
>>
>> Deal with it and STFU, like the Republicans told me to do for eight  
>> years.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Robert D. Stewart - AC5ZH
>> Sent from my phone
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 17, 2012, at 17:09, Dennis Swaney <romad at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Doesn't matter what Congress does as Our Dear And Glorious Leader  
>>> has
>>> started ruling by fiat because "we can't wait". An example is his  
>>> spate
>> of
>>> "recess" appointments when Congress is NOT in recess. So the  
>>> passage of
>>> SOPA and PIPA is moot. Our Dear And Glorious Leader will implement  
>>> the
>>> policies only if they give him more power.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Dennis B. Swaney
>>> California People's Republic
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 14:16, Lloyd Conway <doc_retro at juno.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to think that you're right, Jon, but he threatened to  
>>>> veto the
>>>> 2011 NDAA, the new law that gives him the power to arrest and  
>>>> imprison
>>>> Americans within our borders on his own authority w/o any check or
>> balance,
>>>> if he deems them to be 'threats' and he's declared the USA to be a
>>>> 'battlefield' in the war on terror, so i do not hold out hope  
>>>> that he'll
>>>> refuse to sign such a bill.  It may not empower him directly, but  
>>>> it
>>>> empowers those with power.
>>>> Regards,
>>>> -Lloyd Conway
>>>> Charlotte, Michigan
>>>>
>>>> "Except apparently, today, Obama threatened to veto it, and  
>>>> Congress
>>>> has supposedly dropped the bill. We'll see how this goes in the
>>>> future, but I'd like to think that many congressmen are currently
>>>> breathing a sigh of relief--this thing kind of grew a life of its  
>>>> own,
>>>> and nobody seemed willing to try to seriously stop it. (my theory  
>>>> for
>>>> why, once word came from the WH threatening the veto, that Congress
>>>> was so quick to drop that potato)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> ?-Jon Glass
>>>> Krakow, Poland
>>>> <jonglass at usa.net>"
>>
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