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To: Dale Baker who wrote (7120)	12/17/2005 9:38:55 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 540985

The administration is claiming extraordinary presidential powers at the expense of civil liberties and is putting the president above the law," Caroline Fredrickson, Washington legislative director for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement. ......... The president says that everything he did he did for our "safety". You can do a lot of harm when you push aside legal protections, for safety. What Bush meant is that he is giving us his idea of short term safety by abrogating our protections for real safety against a much more dangerous enemy, our own government, and its tendency to chip away at our liberties. 9/11 was a tragedy which killed 3000 people, and was perpetrated by a very small group. Those folks can do some damage again, but they don't have the ability to take over the country. By using a limited tragedy as an excuse to weaken our historic protections, Bush threatens our entire country- something not even the terrorists were able to do.