So long, Dubya

[X]

the state now has Soviet-level powers to spy on its own population and a whole bunch of other stuff. I wonder how things got like that.

and to imprison people without trial for years, to enter people's homes without justifiable cause, to spy on emails and mobile phone conversations, to demand DNA information .........

But it's because we are fighting for freedom, of course.

[Andre]

Right is only there, but wrong is there and there = tunnel vision.

[Kirkland Laing]

the state now has Soviet-level powers to spy on its own population and a whole bunch of other stuff. I wonder how things got like that.

and to imprison people without trial for years, to enter people's homes without justifiable cause, to spy on emails and mobile phone conversations, to demand DNA information .........

But it's because we are fighting for freedom, of course.

ARTICLE 125. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law:

1. freedom of speech;
2. freedom of the press;
3. freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;
4. reedom of street processions and demonstrations.

These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.


ARTICLE 127. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed inviolability of the person. No person may be placed under arrest except by decision of a court or with the sanction of a procurator.



ARTICLE 128. The inviolability of the homes of citizens and privacy of correspondence are protected by law.



Constitution of the Soviet Union


C1936 Constitution of the USSR, Part IV