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Originally Posted by roachboy
wait---this is about state surveillance that runs beyond any meaningful legal limit, but which is not itself illegal because the authorization for it comes out of the patriot act (god how i hate that name...)
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political authorization doesn't mean it's legal or constitutional.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
no-one seriously thinks that the only form of political action is revolutionary.
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I don't think anyone here declared the only form to be 'revolutionary'. It's going to be a natural logical progression to it though.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
if the question is how one might go about organizing protests, or pressure groups, or a campaign to bring pressure on congress to repeal the patriot act, or not renew it, and so undercut the legal basis for the wiretapping, the answer's not that complicated. it's easy enough to start a webcampaign that would result in, say, tons of emails or phone calls. it's not that difficult to organize a demo---the logisitics of a large-scale "legit" demo are pretty arduous (permits and all that) but not insurmountable, and it's not like no-one's ever done this work before so you're not exactly inventing the wheel. the point is that this is an issue that one may not like, but which functions entirely within the logic of the dominant order. to address it, what's required is sustained pressure.
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I thought that freedom of speech, protesting, redress of grievances were rights protected by the constitution, why would you NEED a permit?
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Originally Posted by roachboy
running around with a gun pretending you're some kind of minuteman looking to overthrow the state is not only tactically absurd in this case, but it's strategically meaningless.
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nobody approached that tactic