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To: TimF who wrote (7497)	12/20/2005 9:06:37 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541355

I might be convinced to be against the patriot act, but I think your arguments against it exaggerate its impact. In his column today (posted by Dale) George Will writes: For more than 500 years -- since the rise of nation-states and parliaments -- a preoccupation of Western political thought has been the problem of defining and confining executive power. The problem is expressed in the title of a brilliant book, "Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power," by Harvey Mansfield, Harvard's conservative. George Will, the Conservative movement, Harvey Mansfield and others make the arguement much more forcefully than I ever could. The point is, in the grand scheme of things, terrorists will come and go. The current crop is not that big of a deal imo. They will be contained. But the danger of arbitrary power once out of the bag is much more real and lethal. It is a much bigger danger.