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Feb. 25th, 2006 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselking"Red state meets police state" - federal employee in Idaho harassed, threatened with arrest and fine for having anti-war bumper stickers on his car.
Also,
"Roboscam" - a fake polling organisation has a machine dialling phone numbers, "polling" the recipients to ask if they object to Bush's illegal wiretapping after they are told that their congressman supports it. This kind of polling would be illegal even if it *was* honest, since it does not indicate the sponsor of the poll. As it is, it's solely a dishonest attempt to paint congressmen who oppose the wiretapping as supporting it. If you read the details, you'll note that Democratic Congressman John Salazar of Colorado received one of them personaloly, to his phone number, asking if he would support himself for re-election after he was told the lie that he supported Bush's illegal wiretaps.
Also,
Bush argues that outsourcing real jobs to India is good because it's creating a market in India for pizza from franchises owned by American companies.
No, really.
Also,
"Roboscam" - a fake polling organisation has a machine dialling phone numbers, "polling" the recipients to ask if they object to Bush's illegal wiretapping after they are told that their congressman supports it. This kind of polling would be illegal even if it *was* honest, since it does not indicate the sponsor of the poll. As it is, it's solely a dishonest attempt to paint congressmen who oppose the wiretapping as supporting it. If you read the details, you'll note that Democratic Congressman John Salazar of Colorado received one of them personaloly, to his phone number, asking if he would support himself for re-election after he was told the lie that he supported Bush's illegal wiretaps.
Also,
Bush argues that outsourcing real jobs to India is good because it's creating a market in India for pizza from franchises owned by American companies.
No, really.
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Date: 2006-02-26 04:18 am (UTC)