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To: bentway who wrote (17344)	5/28/2005 7:16:46 PM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

agree ... eom

To: bentway who wrote (17344)	5/29/2005 1:36:39 PM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 20773

Bravo post.

To: bentway who wrote (17344)	5/30/2005 12:57:49 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Defending Freedom As we remember America’s fallen troops who died defending freedom, let us consider the current state of our freedom in the United States, Home of the Brave, Land of the Free. The state of our Freedom is much diminished since the administration of George W. Bush took over the national government. Consider this one simple example: “How would you like to live in a country where the police could come in the middle of the night and take you away... and no one knows about it?” That’s a line U.S. journalists sometimes use when they are criticized for reporting arrests. (“Why did you have to tell about my brother being booked for robbery.... he didn’t do it but now his reputation is damaged?”) Under the Patriot Act, my friends, the police can and indeed do arrest people and keep the arrest a secret. In recent months we’ve heard much hue and cry from the media, quoting corporate bigwigs complaining that the Sarbanes-Oxley act is causing them too much expense and hassle. The act was passed by congress in response to outrageous acts of fraud and theft by some of America’s most famous CEO’s. The complaint heard most often, is that Sarbanes-Oxley was passed too hurriedly, without adequate study and refinement. Strange how we have heard very little from the media about the Patriot Act; how it was hurriedly passed in the heat of fear and paranoia after the shamefull attack on the US on 911, and how it contains outrageous and egregious violations of the US Bill of Rights and the US Constitution. It’s not such a big problem you say. Wait someday until you, or your son, or a brother or sister or other family members are taken away by the police in the middle of the night, and no one knows what has happened to them. Ask victims of the Shah of Iran’s Savak, Communist Russia’s KGB, China’s Secret Police, Saddam Hussein's Mukhabarat or Pinochet’s night raiders in Chile. They’ll tell you: Secret and Police should never, ever be used together. May you and your family have a safe and meaningful Memorial Day. And may those Americans whose lives were taken from them in defense of Freedom be remembered by a grateful and free people. washingtonpost.com