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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity
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To: kodiak_bull who wrote (9339)10/11/2001 1:03:28 AM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (1) of 23153
 
Kodiak, I've been following the discussion on limiting our constitutional rights in order to provide for more security in the face of the terrorist threat. Even here in this country we have a long history of abuse of authority by government. If we open the doors further so that it is even more difficult to challenge governmental intrusion into private lives, we empower those who are well intentioned as well as those who are not or are just stupid.

There must be a way to protect our interests in security without eroding our rights to be protected from the intrusive and unwarranted exercise of power by government. Judicial doctrine interpreting and protecting our rights under the constitution provides that constitutional rights can be infringed, but only where the government shows a compelling state interest. This would seem to be one of those instances but, like many here, I would like to see that spelled out and I would like to see some debate and a sunset law as well.

It seems to me that much of the problem with identifying and stopping these terrorists had less to do with the fact that law enforcement didn't have the tools and more to do with the fact that the various parts of law enforcement that make up the body forgot to build a brain.

Beauracracies are the curse of modern society. I would hate to see one with law enforcement powers run out of control. Ed
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