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Originally Posted by theking
Dianne Feinstein in particular attempted to find abuses of the Patriot Act and admitted that she could not...and at this point niether has the ACLU...all though I think they may have stated some "alleged" abuses...but have been unable to come up with anything concrete.
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Ah, I see... there's no proof, therefore no violations, and if there's no violations then the egregious stripping of privacy is moot because... well, just because.
Whew. That's a relief. I guess I don't need to worry about weapons of mass distruction now either. I mean, there's no proof that any terrorist ever got a hold of one, or at least nothing aside from alleged abuses. I bet Iraq will be happy!
Whether or not those former rights were abused is, again, immaterial. The point now is that they NO LONGER EXIST. An expectation that a cop won't traipse through your house on thin evidence without your knowledge IS NO LONGER VALID. How can you reasonably claim that personal freedoms were not abridged by this one thing alone?