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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 7 Sep 2015
      Replying to @lib_ertarian_

      @lib_ertarian_ You count weekends as a safety issue?

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    2. leveller‏ @lib_ertarian_ 7 Sep 2015
      Replying to @emptywheel

      @emptywheel and what, no full throated defense of police unions? they've been really active last 2 yrs defending members' interests

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    3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 7 Sep 2015
      Replying to @lib_ertarian_

      @lib_ertarian_ Oh, I have commented on that in the past. It's obviously about power, and who the powerful want empowered.

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    4. leveller‏ @lib_ertarian_ 7 Sep 2015
      Replying to @emptywheel

      @emptywheel and yet the meta unions love them some police unions too. rather seems to poison the union well...

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    5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 7 Sep 2015
      Replying to @lib_ertarian_

      @lib_ertarian_ Police need unions. When police are the only ones that are allowed to keep their unions, it's a problem.

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    6. leveller‏ @lib_ertarian_ 7 Sep 2015
      Replying to @emptywheel

      @emptywheel they're not. there's all sorts of public sector unions. teachers, firefighters, etc. police unions just in spotlight now

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    7. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 7 Sep 2015
      Replying to @lib_ertarian_

      @lib_ertarian_ In many states, incl MI, police unions have retained rights to organize other public sector unions have not.

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    8. leveller‏ @lib_ertarian_ 7 Sep 2015
      Replying to @emptywheel

      @emptywheel which is odd because police unions ought to be weakened. dramatically.

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    9. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 7 Sep 2015
      Replying to @lib_ertarian_

      @lib_ertarian_ That's my point. Police unions get special treatment bc those in power like them having lots of power (ex over pensions).

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    10. leveller‏ @lib_ertarian_ 7 Sep 2015
      Replying to @emptywheel

      @emptywheel and it's a very odd point. stronger non police unions would have very little impact on police unions' lionizing their worst.

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 7 Sep 2015
      Replying to @lib_ertarian_

      @lib_ertarian_ That assumes that stronger non police unions wouldn't have salutary effect on balance of powers that enable police abuses.

      9:34 AM - 7 Sep 2015
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        2. leveller‏ @lib_ertarian_ 7 Sep 2015
          Replying to @emptywheel

          @emptywheel you're right, i don't believe in magic.

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        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 7 Sep 2015
          Replying to @lib_ertarian_

          @lib_ertarian_ Magic is believing that average people do better in face of corporate/govt power w/o associations to combine their strength

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        4. leveller‏ @lib_ertarian_ 7 Sep 2015
          Replying to @emptywheel

          @emptywheel i'm happy for people to associate. i associate. i also disassociate when i believe leadership is corrupt.

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        5. leveller‏ @lib_ertarian_ 7 Sep 2015
          Replying to @lib_ertarian_

          @emptywheel and that last is something unions don't tolerate

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        6. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 7 Sep 2015
          Replying to @lib_ertarian_

          @lib_ertarian_ You hold any stock? You dissociate there, too, when leadership is corrupt? Even mutual funds?

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        7. leveller‏ @lib_ertarian_ 7 Sep 2015
          Replying to @emptywheel

          @emptywheel if i can, yes. in past i have gotten my employer to add fund choices for a variety of reasons that among them

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        8. leveller‏ @lib_ertarian_ 7 Sep 2015
          Replying to @lib_ertarian_

          @emptywheel i am looking for a new job now because my company got bought by a USAID war profiteer.

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