(2012/05/28) The Tighter You Clench Your Fist, The Less Sand You Can Hold (Police State)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 28 May 2012
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Edition #609
The Tighter You Clench Your Fist, The Less Sand You Can Hold
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Cyber-Snuggly - Mark Fiore - Air Date 4-30-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Don't think twice, it's alright - Peter, Paul & Mary
Ch. 4: Act 2: State action on LGBTQ equality movement - BotL Activism Update
Ch. 5: Song 2: Le monde de contre jour - David Ari Leon
Ch. 6: Act 3: Federal Judge Blocks NDAA Indefinite Detention
Ch. 7: Song 3: Golden Brown - The Stranglers
Ch. 8: Act 4: Opening Up A Fortune Cookie Of Pain - The Bugle - Air Date_04-06-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Coastal cities - The Secret Handshake
Ch. 10: Act 5: James Burke Interesting Internal Contradiction - Common Sense - Air Date: 4-5-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: You'll find a way - Santigold
Ch. 12: Act 6: FBI Discontinues Witness-Protection Parade - The Onion
Ch. 13: Song 6: Parade - Matt Nathanson
Ch. 14: Act 7: Criminalizing the Speech and Thought of Tarek Mehanna - The Progressive - Air Date: 4-23-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Perpetual dawn (Solar Youth Mix) - The Orb
Ch. 16: Act 8: They're Gaps To Be Plugged - BBC4 News Quiz - Air Date: 4-7-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Step on me - The Cardigans
Ch. 18: Act 9: DOJ: It Is Your Constitutional Right to Record Police - Majority Report - Air Date: 5-18-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Blue Monday - New Order
Ch. 20: Act 10: The Right & Left Agreeing! Say It Ain't So! - Lee Camp - Air Date: 4-30-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: Million faces - Paulo Nutini
Ch. 22: Act 11: Terrorists Tried & Convicted in NY Courtroom & World Doesn't End - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 5-4-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: Reaction to being cynical about gay marriage - Isaac from DC
Ch. 24: Broader perspective on privilege after Matthew's voicemail - Aaron from Pennsylvania
Ch. 25: Surviving a suicide attempt for being gay - Dan from Chicago
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 26: Final comments - Thanks for sharing
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:05.7 | the membership tab at BestOfALeft.com. |
| 0:08.2 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfALeft podcast with Cups Today from MarkFurray.com, |
| 0:12.8 | the majority report, the bugle, common sense with Dan Carlin, the onion radio news, the |
| 0:17.2 | progressive BBC news quiz, comedian Lee Camp and The Rachel Maddo Show, and in note for |
| 0:22.7 | our more sensitive listeners, the fact that you are listening to this podcast is being |
| 0:26.0 | recorded by your government for quality assurance purposes. |
| 0:29.1 | Hi boys and girls, I'm back here on Capitol Hill to keep you cyber snugly. |
| 0:42.8 | We tried with SOPA, then with PEPA, and now with CSPA, and if this one doesn't work, |
| 0:48.7 | we'll keep trying, maybe with SOPA, PEPA, or Orestia. |
| 0:54.7 | Some cyber-terror sympathizers say this new bill is about dumping existing privacy laws |
| 1:00.4 | and snooping without court orders. |
| 1:02.9 | I say it's about keeping you snugly and secure. |
| 1:07.6 | Don't worry though, private companies will only share your information with the government |
| 1:12.5 | if it's for cyber security, which just to be on the safe side is pretty much cyber |
| 1:18.1 | or anything. |
| 1:19.1 | It's not like any of these companies would do anything to violate your privacy, right? |
| 1:26.0 | And if they do, we'll find them $25,000. |
| 1:33.4 | So I hope little Timmy in Room 403 didn't use the internet to say his lab partner is |
| 1:39.0 | the bomb, because that sounds pretty cyber-attacky to me, and should probably be shared with the |
| 1:45.2 | NSA. |
| 1:46.2 | But don't get paranoid, Timmy. |
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