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To: FaultLine who wrote (9048)	11/5/2001 6:50:01 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi, FL. Re 'parsing' my made-up term, "un-terrorist dissenter": In the discussion of the "USA Patriotism 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. When I wrote the sentence that puzzled you, "On SI, an un-terrorist dissenter was recently called a traitor," I was talking about how the drive to suppress dissent manifests even on SI. Its relevance to the Act was this... 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.