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You are making a claim that your right to privacy exceeds my right to life. I have coworkers near death at this very moment as a consequence of what may well be an ongoing attack."

This would NOT have stopped the attack. Ya know why? Because there are a bunch of incompetent boobs in the alphabet agencies who drop the ball time and time again. FYI there was no magic wand waved over the world that made them competent and trustworthy after the attack

"I'd like to inform you that my right to life is of greater value to both me and my country, than your right to any level of privacy."

How arrogant you are. Oh sure me keeping my rights is gonna kill you. Pathetic

"It is time for the government to get about the business of protecting me, and if you get hurt in the process, I could care less - actually it could be even worse than that; I could care about harm to you as much as you care about harm to me."

Yes it is time the government did the ONE job it is suppose too. Giving the FBI more money, power and your rights on a silver platter is not the answer you may think it is. I guess it does not matter anymore that these people you exptect to protect you, have also killed and jailed innocent people.

"If you don't want to participate in this country, I encourage you to hat up. Have no idea where you might go because they have countries everywhere - maybe you could join a tribe in the Federal Tribal Territory in Pakistan, or maybe down with a bunch of headhunters along the Amazon - it just won't be here. We have a war to win, and people to protect, and it's long overdue that the government get on with it"

You acquiesce with enthusiasm to a proven incompetents. That is not participation on your part. I am sick of people like you telling Americans to shut up, do what the government says or get out. It is despicable that any American would say that and especially one FReeper to another. This is just as much my country as it is yours. I know my rights and I want to keep them. If you don't like that then then you go to Pakistan.

Let's put it this way, I am being shot at. You are not. My point of view may be a bit different. Still, the Fourth Amendment allows reasonable searches and seizures. During wartime it seems to me it is reasonable to search aliens and to take their stuff. I read through the bill that passed, and it comes down pretty hard on aliens.

Folks who oppose that bill, whether they know it or not, are actually asking that enemy aliens who are actually plotting and planning mayhem in this country be given special protection.

That is preposterous.

And please read the bill that passed - not that mindless garbage that got spun out of the Jutice Department word processor.