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To: Dale Baker who wrote (7185)	12/17/2005 12:24:51 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 541341

Undermining a country during a time of war is often considered treason. I understand that. I have been fighting the t-word users hereabouts for years. And it's always possible that such true believers will abuse power. We've seen instances of imperial white houses doing that very thing, and the perps being treated as heroes by the t-word-using set. I am not oblivious. But I also recognize that we can't unduly tie the hands of those who fight for us against the bad guys. We must remember that it's not your library records or mine that are the prized get. So it seems reasonable to me that we (the country, not the thread) debate the appropriate balance. It's a different world than when the framers wrote the fourth amendment. In those days, co-conspirators could't be warned and incriminating records couldn't be zapped in the blink of an eye by traitors--real traitors, not the t-word type. In addition, there's the distinction between criminals and enemy combatants to consider. Methinks the fourth amendment was not written for enemy combatants.

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