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To: Win Smith who wrote (9045)	11/5/2001 5:25:52 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

un-terrorist dissenter Win, I can't even parse the meaning of un-terrorist dissenter ...help! --fl

To: Win Smith who wrote (9045)	11/5/2001 5:57:13 PM
From: E	Respond to of 281500

Oh my God, it's worse on SI than I imagined, though I shouldn't be surprised, because, as I said, dissenters are routinely called traitors, or unAmerican, when they exercise their rights under our democracy to express their dissent. This predictable phenomenon should make us wary of such opportunistically broad pieces of legislation as the "U.S.A. Patriotism Act." One man's 'patriotism' is that same man's fervidly felt right to suppress expression of disagreement with his 'patriotic' views. I knew of that one case only because I myself defended the person called a traitor, X the Unknown (with whose views on the war I have differed), describing in vulgar language the person who used the t-word, and in more substantive language pointing out that this person "has no clue what a democracy is, except she knows she doesn't like to see it in action."