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To: Sully- who wrote (61872)	9/18/2007 11:26:39 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 90947

Before attacking the Patriot Act, try reading it. BY MICHAEL B. MUKASEY Monday, September 17, 2007 2:00 p.m. EDT (Editor's note: This morning President Bush nominated Judge Mukasey as attorney general. This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal and on this Web site May 10, 2004.) Learned Hand, among the last century's greatest judges, defined the spirit of liberty 60 years ago as "the spirit which is not too sure that it is right." We must consider what message we can take from those words today. We are now in a struggle with an extremism that expresses itself in the form of terror attacks, and in that we face what is probably the gravest threat to this country's institutions, if not to its physical welfare, since the Civil War. When one tries to assess people who can find it in themselves to fly airplanes into buildings and murder 3,000 of us in a single morning, whatever else you can say about such people, they are very sure that they are right; and wouldn't it be music to their ears to hear that our spirit says we're not too sure that we are right? What measures we should take to protect ourselves... Message 23890353