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Originally posted by Colin
The Patriot Act is just the normal reaction to a threat that will come and go. Like Lincoln's suspension of Habeas Corpus, the Alien and Sedition Acts, McCarthyism, Japanese internment (Canadian or American) and on and on. Would you have proclaimed the same during any of these times?
The Patriot act passed the Senate 98-1 back when 9-11 was fresh in people's mind. Just the same as any such law has passed in history.
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If there was a way....
...I would really like to know what Tom Jefferson and Ben Franklin would say about this....
