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I think one of the great abuses of this modern time is we should have had such high profile artists, powerful celebrities but they have turned their back on social responsibility. that goes for jay-z and beyonce, for example. give me bruce springsteen and now were talking. i really think hes black. when he snatched the wigs he did so with experience. hes been on the forefront of movements for more than six decades. he was there 50 years ago with the march on washington alongside sidney poitier, ...

>> you are right to be freaked out with the irs and what they are doing. look at the nsa lev ratirevelat. i dont think it is unimaginable that these things happen. it happened 30 years ago. but i think it is a situation where the rules are so unclear. thats where you get abuses of power is where brewercrats dont have clear rules to follow. it is such a mess right now over what happened kind of political money can be regulated. the supreme courts left it basically in shambles and very difficult t...

Ability, put his team together, and thats what it was all about. so you people can go back and look at my book and talk about what i said those many years ago. the fact is, things have broken down very much since then. and president obama has not been able to put his people on the table. look, im kind of an expert at this. lyndon johnson was the leader of the same period of time that i have been. he had to overcome one filibuster. ive had to overcome 413 filibusters. >> so if thats the case, maj...

So you people can go back and look at my book and talk about what i said those many years ago. the fact is, things have broken down very much since then. and president obama has not been able to put his people on the table. look, im kind of an expert at this. lyndon johnson was the leader of the same period of time that i have been. he had to overcome one filibuster. ive had to overcome 413 filibusters. >> so if thats the case, majority leader, then why should the filibuster exist at all? there ...

Questionable acts and he remains silent -- then, you should go to iceland. because they at least have a consistent rule on a lot of these subjects and it wouldnt be incumbent upon him to actually do something about press freedoms or human rights abuses or transparency. >> i mean if he takes one of these offers, i dont see him becoming a freedom fighter for the human rights of venezuelans or -- i dont see him going to cuba. but i dont expect that to happen. is that hypocrisy? to some degree. >> h...

Protect sources of journalists. how to you define journalists are very important. >> i want to say i agree with thomas jefferson, said the government should be afraid of the people. [ laughter ] >> i must say contrary to what we adjudicate read from snowden, the american people are not mad at the american government after his revelation. to the contrary. when you look at the polls they are mad at snowden. they think his behavior and he has fled the country and not been accountable is reprehensib...

Requests from conservative operations for tax exempt status. also, the former director of the irs douglass shulman was signed into the white house 157 times. far more than any other federal official. why was shulman there? it is the fbis job to find out. but apparently the bureau considered by some to be the finest investigative agency in the world not up and running yet on the biggest federal case in some time. does that make any sense to anyone? the answer is no. makes no sense at all. there i...

>> sure. well, the first thing is that president morsi, who is just deposed, was practicing a very exclusionary politics drafting a new constitution without sufficient consensus, ramming it through, trying to silence some of his critics by suing them in the courts. the mistake would be to repeat that in the other direction and try to exclude islamists from the political sphere. thats the first issue. on the police, you know, the police in egypt and the interior ministry have, unfortunately, a ve...

Government who knows who knows who did wrong and the government prosecutes people who didnt squeal on their neighbors. in the last five years of that society, the most frequently prosecuted crime was the failure to turn in ones neighbor. do we really want that society here? thats what this will bring us here. >> no, we do not. what do you say about two respected libertarians. you know who they are, roger pa lon and rich -- they would be critical if they could identify a pattern of abuses. after ...

Im infuriated by more than this list of 100 things that government does. but data mining compared to all these other abuses? i needed to learn more about that. and for saying that, libertarians now call me disgusting and an lino. libertarian in name only. some agree with my list, but they also agree with the blogger who wrote "the existence of worst violations is not a reason to dismiss pretty damn bad ones." and thats true. i dont dismiss the danger in data mining. i dont. but keep it in perspe...