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Originally Posted by rickholio
I don't know if there an effective measure against terrorism. It's been a method used quite successfully by partisans since the beginning of recorded history.
However, the civil liberties thing is pretty simple. Let's start with the USA PATRIOT act section 213 and the Fourth Amendment:
The USA PATRIOT act has explicitly given law enforcement the ability to quite literally enter your home and to 'investigate', without informing you, with extremely loose definitions of what to look for and why to look for it. Additionally, you need not have any suspicion upon you to be a terrorist, this applies to any suspect in any crime at any time.
Perhaps you feel that cops wandering around your personal space on a bug hunt isn't an abrogation of your rights.
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Have you overlooked that reasonable cause is required in both the fourth admendment and the section of the Patriot Act? In either case if there is reasonable cause to think that someone is engaged in either criminal activity or "terrorist" activity I wan them investigated...end of story.