[Sparta]

Only terrorists need fear from this legislation. In this war on terrorism which is really a Jihad on the west - our civil liberties can be used as a weapon against us. This act helps the Government to defend our nation and way of Ulife. I trust Ashcroft, not the ACLU.

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I take it only criminals need to fear armed soldiers setting up checkpoints and saying "Papers, please."

[eleni121]

What soldiers what checkpoints? I do believe that paranoia has taken over in this discussion. But I think that most Americans would agree that if a terrorist was known to be in some particular vicinity, they would not mind going through a checkpoint in order to capture the enemy. We might grumble like we do about sobriety checkpoints but hey...a little pain now is not much to ask in order to capture the enemy. After all, are we doing battle with an enemy or are we not? If civil libertarian extremists are so upset about this legislation why didn't anyone complain about the government shutting down international banking operations feeding money to Bin Laden's organization?