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Emil Guillermo: NSA/Patriot Act phone data collection declared illegal. But real battle ahead in Congress by June deadline. Some want it ended. GOP wants it continued. Do we really want to opt-out of democracy?

Remember how a federal judge ruled in 2013 that the NSA collecting  all your phone data was legal?

Today a federal appellate court ruled that the NSA data collection activity was  ILLEGAL.

But it didn’t rule on the second part of the ACLU’s suit…on whether the NSA’s data collection was unconstitutional.

More fights ahead.

Especially with the June deadline looming to end or extend the data collection provision in the Patriot Act.

The Senate likes the data collection and has already defeated a bill to end it last November.

The House has a bill ready to kill the data collection, but Senate Republicans are trying to kill the bill.

Maybe we can just have the government spy on Republicans who wish to opt-out on certain democratic  freedoms.

But that’s where we are. The court’s ruling today really leaves it up to Congress to decide if bulk collection of phone data is enough to compromise your freedom in the national interest.

See New York Times Report here.

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Emil Guillermo: ICYMI…some stories I’ve done for NBCNews.com/news/Asian-America

To First Time Visitors:

I also write for NBCnews.com/news/Asian-America.

Some good stories here.

Thanks for visiting the site.

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Emil Guillermo: NEW UPDATE–Pacquiao facing class action in U.S. for failing to disclose shoulder; Pacquiao to have surgery on shoulder, ESPN says. Mayweather wants a rematch with the man he calls a “motherpucker.” Just say no?

The shoulder injury of Manny Pacquiao now appears real according to ESPN. And Pacquaio  is said to be having surgery for a rotator cuff issue that would take up to a year to heal.

That means Pacquiao was a one armed man in the “Fight of the Century.”  And I still had him beating Mayweather.

Fortunately for Mayweather, I’m not a judge.

But Mayweather apparently does not want his 0 in 48-0, besmirched.

He must have a re-match!

 

I swore after Pac/Bradley I that I was done  with this stuff.  But apparently I couldn’t stay away.

But think about this scenario:

Mayweather fights for 49 in September and wins, takes time off, and comes back in a year for 50 against a healed-up Pacquiao, who will insist Mayweather fights in Asia, maybe in Manila for another “Thrilla.”

What do you think?  is it time for the “Rematch of the Century”?

You got an extra C-note for the PPV?

Mayweather here calls Pacquiao  “tough as a mother….”

A Mother’s Day greeting?

 

UPDATE ON LAWSUIT:

A class action suit filed in Federal Court in Las Vegas is asking for $5 million in damages for Pacquiao’s failure to disclose his injury.

Suit names as defendants Pacquiao, Top Rank’s Bob Arum, and Pacquaio aide Michael Koncz.

Two specific plaintiffs are named, but the suit could potentially include all those who paid to attend live or on pay-per-view, or those who even gambled on the fight.

See details here.

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Emil Guillermo: Before Jamie Foxx butchered the National Anthem, he criticized Manny Pacquiao’s singing voice by mocking Pacman’s Filipino accent. Yes, it was a racial slur.

Maybe Jamie Foxx is better at lip-synching?

His version of the national anthem during the Pacquiao Mayweather fight was the only thing in the building worse than the fight itself.

(Although, the Burger King guy walking in with Mayweather was pretty bad. I would have asked freckle-powered Wendy).

Here’s Foxx on the anthem.

That was as bad a rendition of F.S. Key as I’ve heard. And I liked the Jose Feliciano version. (If you remember that, you are demographically unnecessary).

But here’s Foxx butchering Pacquiao’s accent on ESPN’s “First Take.”

 

You don’t have to be Filipino to know that is called a a racial slur.

Filipinos care.

ESPN and Foxx can apologize for that.

The national anthem? That just proves the funny man is no Ray Charles.

 

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