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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (36320)	11/7/2001 11:41:17 PM
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[That was going to be too long a post....] You mention the title of the act, "U.S.A. PATRIOT Act." This is why I think it is unsettling and revealing: The combating of terrorism is not about "patriotism," it is about safety and security. The suppression of dissent, however, is invariably called by that name, just as dissenters are invariably called unpatriotic... If legislation gives an establishment the right to suppress dissent for its own political purposes, it will define its own political purposes so as to allow it to muzzle its critics. That is the way it works. Unless one has a functioning Bill of Rights to minimize the Power Corrupts effect... This predictable phenomenon should make us wary of such opportunistically broad pieces of legislation as the "U.S.A. PATRIOT Act." One man's 'patriotism' is that same man's fervidly felt right to suppress expression of disagreement with his 'patriotic' views... [This is too long, too....]

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