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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (475509)	4/27/2009 5:36:26 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1589396

eeshkabibble "This is the first time that I can recall that we've had an administration come in, take power, and then suggest using the power of the government against their predecessors, from a legal standpoint. Criminal prosecution of lawyers in the Justice Department whose opinions they disagreed with on an important issue. Criminal prosecutions. When was the last time that happened? Maybe not in America but its common place in dictatorships, especially following a coup. There are worse examples than just sending a few political opponents to the gallows. Much much worse but even in modern times we see the powerful elite trying to gag religious leaders who have divergent ideas, take control over the media, ban criticism, black ball dissidents, etc.