Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to Spy Agency Headquarters
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Re: Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to Spy Agency Headquarters
#2In other news, several lawmakers receive a dossier of personal accomplishments which they are reluctant to speak of.
Re: Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to Spy Agency Headquarters
#3In other news, several lawmakers receive a dossier of personal accomplishments which they are reluctant to speak of.
I hope one at the end of his political career, by choice, might push ahead anyway. He could announce something like Yes, I did blow and hookers, five years ago. But the NSA does this pressure for silence to so many more people.
Re: Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to Spy Agency Headquarters
#4I hope this passes and gets swiftly struck down by the courts.
I hope it passes because I'm none too pleased with the NSA right now.
I hope it gets struck down because I'd hate for a precedent to be established where cutting off utilities to your political enemies becomes an accepted political tactic. It's 265 Kelvin outside right now and a disturbingly large number of representatives in my state legislature would love to cut off the heat at various LGBT advocacy groups.
Re: Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to Spy Agency Headquarters
#5In other news, several lawmakers receive a dossier of personal accomplishments which they are reluctant to speak of.
I hope one at the end of his political career, by choice, might push ahead anyway. He could announce something like Yes, I did blow and hookers, five years ago. But the NSA does this pressure for silence to so many more people.
During youthful age and learned important life lessons from it. Mainly that we need to be tough on people that do same nowadays.
Pass that peace pipe senator, will ya?
Re: Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to Spy Agency Headquarters
#6So a state government wants to enact legislation to harass a federal agency? I doubt that will be an issue for very long.
Also, the article mentions Fort Meade uses as much electricity as the city of Annapolis. Baltimore Gas and Electric and Howard County would have some choice words about lost revenue.
Re: Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to Spy Agency Headquarters
#7In other news, several lawmakers receive a dossier of personal accomplishments which they are reluctant to speak of.
I hope one at the end of his political career, by choice, might push ahead anyway. He could announce something like Yes, I did blow and hookers, five years ago. But the NSA does this pressure for silence to so many more people.
In today's political climate, there's more than a passing chance that a politician who is not at the end of his or her career could survive the average scandal more or less unscathed, while the damage to the NSA would be catastrophic.
I could easily imagine someone coming out with "Yes, I was banging the intern, and her sister - that's totally true. What I did was wrong, and my wife may never trust me again - we're going to work through that. However, check out the incredible ramifications of this dossier being held over my head in order to coerce me into silence!" - dude might pull off the scandal, or he might not - that's a D20 roll on his charisma mainly, but definitely a non-zero chance. Over in the blue corner, on the other hand, you've got basically no saving throw.
Re: Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to Spy Agency Headquarters
#8I'd like to see some sort of app created kindof like quora only anonymous -- but only for senators and congressmen. They can login and answer questions asked by anyone such as "Has the NSA ever coerced you or another member of congress to the best of your knowledge" - then they could answer the question anonymously w/out threat of being found out.
Or option 2 : Attention pulitzer prize seekers - do a documentary ask every senator/congressmen you can get a hold of to answer that question - conceal their information/identity if they want it conealed- but get a REAL answer to that question.
Re: Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to Spy Agency Headquarters
#9I hope this passes and gets swiftly struck down by the courts. I hope it passes because I'm none too pleased with the NSA right now. I hope it gets struck down because I'd hate for a precedent to be established where cutting off utilities to your political enemies becomes an accepted political tactic. It's 265 Kelvin outside right now and a disturbingly large number of representatives in my state legislature would lo…
I agree completely with your last point. I accept basic utilities are granted a monopoly, but with that comes common access.
Maryland also doesn't want the NSA to leave since federal money is a huge part of the state economy. Also denying state contractors from providing support could cause massive disruptions. I imagine a lot of basic services at government facilities overlap (custodians, food services).
Unfortunately the states don't really have any legitimate tools to punish the federal agencies. I suppose since the NSA is under the DOD they could rollback state benefits to military but that'd be very unpopular. They could also go NJ style and close down roads outside their headquarters.
Re: Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to Spy Agency Headquarters
#10I hope this passes and gets swiftly struck down by the courts. I hope it passes because I'm none too pleased with the NSA right now. I hope it gets struck down because I'd hate for a precedent to be established where cutting off utilities to your political enemies becomes an accepted political tactic. It's 265 Kelvin outside right now and a disturbingly large number of representatives in my state legislature would lo…
a disturbingly large number of representatives in my state legislature would love to cut off the heat at various LGBT advocacy groups.
Can you cite any specific instance of a representative in your legislature threatening such action or expressing a desire to be able to do something like that?