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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: paret who wrote (38189)	7/26/2005 11:18:47 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Librarians are so concerned about your freedom to read about bomb-making, flying planes only after they are in the air, or even about how subways are constructed that that part of the Patriot Act may be muted for your convenience. Actually, my understanding is that it is still in there. There timimg was inimitable. They attacked London Trabsport just before the renewal of the Patriot Act came up for a vote. Not much sympathy for them after that. We don’t think that what you type on a library computer will be recorded for our government to peruse. Depends. If they send it over the net, Carnivore's successor may spot it. We are also doing our best to keep our police officers more concerned about accidentally shooting a minority person than stopping terror. Maybe some people are. I don't think even the London police are backing off. It is better that our police take the time to check Swedish and Norwegian blondes, and grandmothers in wheelchairs, than assume that all bombers of the future may be young Moslems. That, unfortunately, may be true. We must treat both the innocent and the criminal fairly and equally. If the London police had failed to stop that suspect from escaping from them and he had Right. :-( If the London police had failed to stop that suspect from escaping from them and he had blown himself up on the train killing everyone around him, at least we would have known then that he was guilty and London police did their almost best to stop him. Yeah. THAT possibility keeps getting lost. But, WTH, who cares if another 20 or 25 perfectly innocent Londoners are blown apart, huh? :-( Again, terrorists, we Liberals apologize for your mean treatment by our Conservatives. You betchum. Appeasement always works. That's how Reagan won the Cold War, right?