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Hong Kong Covert Surveillance Law Allows Wiretapping, Bugging Homes, Reading Email

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Killgore Trout6/09/2013 5:38:28 pm PDT

re: #120 Dark_Falcon

Stupid and devoid of all sense of proportion. America under George W. Bush and Barack Obama is NOT apartheid South Africa.

Of course not. What makes this more troubling to me is USA is hardly a far left outlet. If this guy does get mainstream acceptance and friendly coverage from the press this could spell trouble. This leaves Obama with no good choices, Change the law and give this fringe on both sides a victory or prosecute him and risk the backlash for clamping down on “whistle blowers”. I guess Obama will go with the middle ground of making a highly “nuanced” speech and promise to look into the issue without doing anything, it’s worked for him in the past but I think on the heels of the DoJ investigating reporters and leaks the mainstream press isn’t going to fall for it this time.