Posted on 03/13/2006 5:08:42 PM PST by MRMEAN
Welcome home, FRiend!
Well if it gets one pimp off the street its all worthwhile /heavy dripping sarcasm
Janet reno was asking for patriot act style powers when he/she was AG and the repubs in congress slapped her down hard and every poster on fr was bitching about the audacity of her even asking for those unconstitutional powers like you wouldnt believe. Now all those same posters are on these threads cheerleading this administration cause in there eyes bush walks on water and turns it into wine when he is done and he will always be the president until the end of time.There will never be a democrat in the white house that will have a chance to use these powers at all no sir
"This seems as plain as the nose on my face. Don't do anything illegal and you have nothing to worry about.
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Yeah, go read the Constitution and the words of our founding fathers and maybe, just maybe, you'll see the error in that logic.
OK, I mis-stated my case. If you do nothing illegal you will not draw attention to yourself. If you then receive gubmint attention, something is wrong.
I have been subjected to government scrutiny before - always when I did something out of the ordinary. I explained my case to the gubmint types and since I had done nothing wrong - just out of the ordinary with a valid explanation - there was no problem.
Gubmint bureaucrats are basically non-motivated workers. You have to REALLY be a problem or they don't bother you. Everybody needs to stop being so paranoid. We are mostly Americans here - even the gubmint types.
Remember - they work for the gubmint because they can't make it in the private sector. That's the scary part about the WOT.
cool. There is nothing wrong with a government investigation when there is reasonable belief that a crime has been committed. Sans a crime or sans reasonable suspicion, then that would simply be a witch hunt; some agent with nothing to do looking for trouble.
In many cases, being no-white has sufficed.
Many of us do live in the real world.
Many others live under paranoid delusions.
Of course, everyone is always suspected of wrong-doing. Get with the program! Andrew Young and Gary Hart (authors of the Patriot Act) are the new Conservative Heros.
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