"Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, said the action raises questions about due process because the escort services were not notified of the hearings where the disconnection orders were issued."



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...and in doing so, was has enacted the USA Patriot Act and other similar statutes with virtually no opposition. Statutes which, for all practical purposes, repeal the most of the 1st & 5th Amendments and all of the 4th Amendment. I'll say it again, the first casualty of the War on Terror was the US Constitution. Oh yes, I'm a veteran. I fought for the above-noted rights.
  Look at Martha, she wasn't convicted of committing an actual  act. She was convicted of lying about committing an act. There is a strong argument to be made that, absent a sworn declaration, Martha was well within her 1st Amendment rights to tell federal investigators whatever story she wanted. But, I digress.
  Apparently, Tenn LE, and the Tenn courts, forgot to read the Constitution. Each American has the right to due process prior to adverse action being taken against him (her) by the government. My thoughts: Hey Goober, read the 14th Amendment!!
  Yeah, yeah, yeah; maybe LE was proceeding under the USA Patriot Act. A law which allows the courts and LE to bypass an Americans constitutional rights. However, prior to doing so, LE must certify to the courts that the defendants are engaged in terrorist activities.
  I'd have loved to hear the State's Attorney, "Your Honor, we have a cell of terrorist pussy in Tennessee..."

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voice or no voice , the people can always be brought to the biddings of the thier leader. This is easy , all you have to do is say to them they are being attacked and thier way of life is in jeopardy. Then denounce te pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger....author, hermann goering a nazi !.................and before any1 starts, yes i still recall 9-11 , i personally after osama is caught would love to force feed him his genitals, then show him his beating heart i just ripped from his chest before he dies.....but that being said , its becoming more obvious every day , this the war in iraq was a lie, and bush and ashcroft are feeding on the frenzy of 9-11 to strip away laws from ordinary citizens.....when it comes to known terrorists, i got no problem giving them te same rights to life they gave the people in nyc

I don't know who you are, Fearless, but I agree with you 105%.

In spite of the serious subject, the cell of terrorist pussy definitely caught my eye.  It reminded me of George Carlin's "Class Clown" album and his "Seven Deadly Words" skit, where he suggested that because "fuck" was, in effect, a positive word, that we substitute the word "fuck" for the word "kill", and then tried it out in text from old Westerns:  "Okay, sheriff, we're gonna fuck ya now...and we're gonna fuck ya slowwwww...".  Now that's MY idea of terrorist pussy!  

I am sure that the people who wrote the so-called "Patriot" act (which probably made our founding fathers spin in their graves) could use to be terrorized by some pussy.  Would it be lowering your standards too much, Michelle, for you to make this your jihad?

Repeat after me:

When they took the 4th amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the 6th amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent.
When they took the 2nd amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun.
Now they've taken the 1st amendment, and I can say nothing about it.

Remember November. The decisions are made by the people who show up.