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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks
Pure hysteria.
No judge, court, or executive official will be able to hold a position that writing letters is an act of terrorism.
If you think the potential loss of liberties is bad now, wait until a nuke or dirty bomb goes off in a US city. Al Qaeda has already promised this.
The fact is that technology has changed the nature of warfare. Recognize this, or suffer more 9/11s --on a much worse scale.
Naomi Wolf and other liberals talk about the abuse of the Patriot Act, and the other anti-terror measures, but where are the actual instances of abuse? There are very very few, if any.
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It's not about current instances of abuse, it's the systematic planning & preparation for future abuses.
The Weimar Republic, (Germany) was heading for democracy prior to The Third Reich passing similar laws to allow the abuses they committed.