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Originally Posted by dig420
hey Ronny, seeing as how the govt. has misused the powers granted to them under the RICO statues, the MANN act, the forfeiture laws and pretty much every other extension of their power throught time immemorial, what exactly makes you think they're not going to abuse the PATRIOT act, especially given that they're already trying to extend it's powers to criminal prosecutions totally unrelated to terrorism, and most especially now that we have a President who seems to have no regard whatsoever for consitutional limitions on the power of his office and the power of the other branches of govt. to perform their consitutional duty of oversight of the executive branch?
What is it about Georgie that makes you so eager to hand him absolute power over my country, it's laws and it's people?
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diglet, the courts have not said the federal government has misused these powers granted to them, making the rest of your rant meaningless.
by the way, where are you spending your days? doesn't seem like its online.