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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (36320)	11/7/2001 11:47:03 PM
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And the last of what I wanted to say about the f-ing USA PATRIOT Act and freedom of expression in this country is below. I promise. In the discussion of the "USA PATRIOT Act," I was making reference to the potential (I believe, predictable) misuse of opportunistically-conceived anti-terrorist legislation to suppress not terrorism, but mere distasteful, annoying (isn't it always?) dissent from the views of an establishment... If legislation gives an establishment the power to suppress dissent for its own political purposes, it will define its own political purposes so as to allow it to muzzle its critics. [Thanks, Laz, for the opportunity to clarify, for those who might have gotten a misimpression about my unambiguous reverence for freedom of expression, what my views are, and have been since I wrote a paper on the subject for Mr. McDermot's ninth grade Social Studies class!]

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