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To: VA Advogado
And after she answers you, perhaps you can share with us all the provision of the constitution that allows MY taxpayer funded library to keep ANY documents in its possession secret?

And then you can show me which provision in the US Constitution allows for such superfelous information to be gathered by the FBI, which the last time I checked is bound by the US Constitution 100% since it is a federal agency. You are so confident that leftists are not going to win any time soon that you trust the power to get whatever information they want without proving they need it to federal agents. 500+ FBI files in Clinton's office. What is to stop a Hillary from coming to power and then using these powers against those that disagree with her? As we libertarians say about censorship, a government big enough to outlaw playboy is big enough to outlaw the Bible. The essence of that applies to police powers. Any power you give the police now, can be used later at their discresion because you've already set a precedent for them being able to use it against one type of dangerous person. The definition of terrorist in the USA PATRIOT Act is so broad that today it's islamists, tomorrow it'll be anti-abortion activists.

54 posted on 06/24/2002 5:04:41 PM PDT by dheretic
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To: dheretic
You are so confident that leftists are not going to win any time soon that you trust the power to get whatever information they want without proving they need it to federal agents. 500+ FBI files in Clinton's office. What is to stop a Hillary from coming to power and then using these powers against those that disagree with her?

Please get off this Hillary fantasy. If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to hide. There is nothing it the constitution that forces you to incriminate yourself.

88 posted on 06/24/2002 6:25:50 PM PDT by VA Advogado
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