Maryland abolishes death penalty.

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Anyway, if communism were a pig, it would feel like this...

Is that Snowball, or Napoleon? If it's the former, it's obviously proof of the corrupt decadence of a treacherous borgeoise. If it's the latter, well der great leader deserves a good massage for all his hard work.

I was looking for an old thread in which I could add a comment on todays news about the NSA knowing everything we do. Exactly what Orwell meant in 1984.
And this points back at my comment (I believe in this thread) about it being worse to live in a country where you think you are free because you can vote for two parties without anyone hassling you about it then living in a country that puts away political prisoners. At least in the latter you know what you are up against, and the world will support you.

No secret service in Russia, China, Nazi Germany, North Korea, has ever done what the NSA is doing. Of course the NSA is much smarter than those other losers.......no reason for Draconian measures of putting away political prisoners or physically eliminating people.....these guys do everything a lot more sophisticated.

Of course I fully agree with the fact that being 'eliminated' without you really knowing it is much less painful than the physical one.