U.S. SURRENDERS TO TERRORISTS

MorePrivacy.com ^ | October 27, 2001 | Michael S. Hyatt

[Doctor Stochastic]

And the conservatives couldn't wait to give these powers to the once and future officials: Reno, Hubble, Clinton, Freeh, Foster (once), and the half of the federal judges appointed by Clinton.

[riley1992]

Where are all the people here who would be ranting and raving if this had been enacted while Clinton was in office? It is oddly quiet now.

[prambo]

America is gone, fini, aufgeficht; in essence, now, on the road to the Fourth Reich.

We have become the new edition of Weimar, just waiting for our own version of Hitler.

Wait, what's that I see in wings?? It's HITLERY!!??

Gut, no more waiting, mein Damen und Herren.

prambo

[TheHex]

Because in their hearts, they all wanted a police state.

[TheHex]

Remember to thank Ascroft and Ridge as they goose-step our rights away.
"Patriot" act, my foot.

[Tinman]

Thanks for posting.

Regards

[Ferris]

Freedom shmeedom...

Who needs that crap anyway???

It is in this time of crisis that we must trust our government masters completely to protect us from evil...

Anything other than that would be... well...

Unpatriotic...

Besides, as long as Jerry Springer is on, who gives a sh*t what happens??

[Moleman]

Where are all the people here who would be ranting and raving if this had been enacted while Clinton was in office? It is oddly quiet now.
I concur

[John Hines]

"The choice is not between liberty and order. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact." - Justice Robert H. Jackson in a dissenting opinion on Terminiello v. Chicago

civil liberties are only an issue for the living. the dead have no need for for civil liberties.

[NoCurrentFreeperByThatName]

Where are all the people here who would be ranting and raving if this had been enacted while Clinton was in office? It is oddly quiet now.

Shhh! They were hoping we wouldn't notice

[verity]

Sob! Snivel! We shall all perish!

[slouper]

"Remember to thank Ascroft and Ridge as they goose-step our rights away. "Patriot" act, my foot."

TheHex....member since October 29th, 2001

[RnMomof7]

I am afraid there is a truth in this!

[riley1992]

What does his member date have to do with the comment you cut and pasted?

[TwoStep]

**Ping**

[Lazamataz]

Where are all the people here who would be ranting and raving if this had been enacted while Clinton was in office? It is oddly quiet now.

I think it is less about the leadership and more about the exigencies of the situation. We watched helplessly as 4 normally benign airliners turned into bombs capable of killing 7000 and causing no less than 100 billion dollars in damage.

Then our minds fast forward 10 years and we ponder the headline:

Chicago Vaporized By Nuke
FEMA: 650,000 casualties; CIA: Al Queda implicated.

And suddenly even the most strident privacy advocate -- such as myself -- grows a little more subdued.

[davidosborne]

Where are all the people here who would be ranting and raving if this had been enacted while Clinton was in office? It is oddly quiet now.

we are still here.. giving that ammount of authority to a person who has proven lack of integrity and ANY ethics whatsoever IS dangerous..

I have complete confidence in President George W. Bush

And besides like any other authority granted by congress.. it can be taken away if abused.. thats the way our system of Government works.. Just ask my 5 year old. she can tell you about how quickly priviledges come and go...

David

[davidosborne]

a few bumps

[riley1992]

And besides like any other authority granted by congress.. it can be taken away if abused.. thats the way our system of Government works..

That is the way our system of Government was intended to work, David. We all know that far too often that is not the case.