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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1427)	9/25/2001 11:35:36 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

I think your instincts are correct. It is a sad fact, but true, that during war time civil liberties have been given short shrift in our nation, among many others. See, e.g., "All the Laws but One : Civil Liberties in Wartime" by William Rehnquist, about habeas corpus during the Civil War. In a democracy, we must always be cognizant of the fact that democracy is inconvenient to autocrats, plutocrats, oligarchs, and countless others who find the so-called "mob" (that's US) inconvenient.