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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (268277)	6/29/2002 12:47:58 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Meanwhile the USA Patriot Act will do less to combat Al Qaeda than it will allow absolutely unacceptable authority of our government over its own citizens. Creating a first step toward a brownshirt-like organization with Freedom Corps is going to do exactly what kind of damage to Al Qaeda? There's obviously going to be lives at stake and lost as a matter of the necessity to reduce terrorism. Widening the definition of terrorism via the passage of laws serves only to bring about the use of greater efforts to control private lives and erode freedoms. Assertions are made that this control is what some in government have been striving for. Secrecy and stonewalling surrounding the foreknowledge issue do little to dissuade the notion that terrorist acts in this country might be seen as "convenient" in regard to the major step forward toward control that has been taken. We've been told by our government on one side to go about our lives "normally" to show we are not going to be victims of the psychological aim of terrorism. That is becoming less and less possible because on another side our own government is attempting to redefine what will be considered acceptably normal. In doing so the government is succumbing to that aim of the terrorists.