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To: TimF who wrote (7710)	12/21/2005 8:51:19 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) of 541392

What I'm looking more for is that the Patriot Act (and specifically the Patriot Act) allows for a great deal of arbitrary, inappropriate, unrestrained, executive power against Americans. Do you really think government needs more authority to become more effective? The Patriot Act is just something authoritarians are using to send a message that they need more authority to do their job. Their main concern is to concentrate powers. Being effective is perhaps secondary at best. The need for more powers is endless. Effectiveness will not be addressed - perhaps only as an after thought. Do you think government needed more authority to do a better job after Katrina? Do you think that if the President had aboslute powers to do anything he wanted, that 911 would have been prevented? The Patriot Act is only Act I of an infinite number of Acts that authoritarians will enact to gain absolute authority. Effectiveness, doing a good job, is not really at issue.

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