Yep, I hear the sound of those crickets. Let me go ahead and address those who are concerned about the abuse of these new powers under the law. I will grant you that if thse powers are abused then we do need to call these people to the carpet about it. Obviously, there are going to be some actions that are not going to neccesarily be popular with some people and I do realize that. The only questions I would have, though, is would you have felt the same way if XXX42 or Al Gore were in office? Would Senator Fienstein or Jesse Jackson felt the same way? That's what you have to think about.
You see in their minds they'd sleep a little better if those powers in the hands of one of their own because they know it would then be abused and misused to go after their adversaries and critics. Remeber when we (conservatives and christians) were blamed for Oklahoma City in 1995? How they would have liked to use these powers to track down and catch us instead of going after the real terrorists? Some of these people from the previous administration are still at the FBI right now. Why else would you figure out the finger pointing they are doing with the anthrax scares? President Bush really needs to clean house at the FBI
To my knowledge I don't see any brownshirts on any of the street corners here where I live. I don't have any soldiers in my house. I don't see any black helicopters. If that changes, you'll be the first to know. But I just don't see any of this happening under this new law with our current administration. I just don't
Thanks for your posts on this subject. Regards.
I should also metion in reponse to post #8 that a lot of us freepers have 9 to 5 jobs and don't have a lot time to participate in message board discussions. So, what we just do (a lot of us) is post our thoghts on the issues of the day and then start an overnight thread to see how people feel about the sbuject. Then we wake up the next morning and turn on our computers and check in on that thread to see what kind of responses were posted. It works just as well as any other thread here at FR and yes, a lot of us do understand the concerns expressed, enen if we don't have the time or the opoortunity to discuss the issues.