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somebody’s weewee’d up...

The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for tax delinquents, copyright infringers and political protesters.

Have a nice sip of Hot Steaming Intimidation Stage, anyone?

1. “... copyright infringers and political protesters.”

   Didn’t somebody say not too long ago that “dissent is patriotic”?

   I can’t find a source - I thought it was Hilary or Pelosi - but I did find a left-lefty web site crowing all about it:

   [url="http://irregulartimes.com/progressiveflag.html"]The Progressive American Flag:
   Dissent is Patriotic![/url]

   I found a source:

   “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”—Howard Zinn”

   If you can’t believe Howard, who can you believe?
   
   There’s one teeny little problem with that site’s quote - their “flag” (it has those quotes in the white stripes) attributes the quote to Jefferson.

   Turns out that Zinn really is the source.  I wouldn’t be surprised if Bill Ayers seconded that motion.

   Fact-checking and correcting is such tedious work.

   Now that they’re in the catbird seat, (to borrow one of Nixon’s phrases) “that statement is no longer operative”.

   Posted by ZZMike  on  12/15/09  at  04:28 PM

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