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"The House and Senate have voted to make noncompliance with a national security letter a criminal offense. The House would also impose a prison term for breach of secrecy."
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No checks and balances whatsoever. The problem with the new laws embedded in the Patriot Act most citizens don’t understand the fine distintions between what’s in print and what is actually practiced. We now have less rights than the Danes did under the Nazi occupation. For those who feel all this is necessary for our security just let them get caught in the FBI web once. They will change they’re tune fast.

Grow up

Submitted by george oh well on Mon, 2005-12-12 01:24.
Here in California we have 200 private, registered (non-profit, non-taxable) civil rights/civil liberties organizations ready to scream bloody murder at the slightest infraction of any of the 60,000 laws protecting the rights, freedoms, and civic privileges enjoyed by our 33 million residents (including the "rights" of our five million or so criminals: illegal aliens). America has 6 times as many laws as any other country protecting individual freedoms, and as goes California, where we also enjoy the right of popular initiative; you might factor that again by two. This explains why we’re the most litigious state in the most litigious country on earth by a factor of seven. California’s politically-savvy population also enjoys the right of popular initiative. That’s how we bounce incompetent Democratic governors out of office in mid term.

Equating our civic establishment to a totalitarian regime is an exercise in immaturity, or out and out stupidity. It’s whining and projection and name-calling and nothing more. It’s how a left-wing homosexual can project his hatred of conservative heterosexuals, or how racist blacks can project their hatred of status quo whites, or how Marxist academics can project their hatred of people who believe in the checks and balances of a free market democracy. Anytime one encounters someone on the web using “Nazi” as a pejorative, they may rest assured that the mentality at work is projecting hatred of someone or something that decidedly has nothing to do with Nazism. It’s simply a projection of hatred, period. If I’m wrong here, I’ll stand corrected if anyone can locate a single veteran who actually picked up a rifle to fight the Nazis while defending the freedoms we all enjoy today (or more aptly, take for granted), who now equates our polity to that of Danes living under Nazism. That should be easy, shouldn’t it? Maybe such a quest will be long enough to give the author who started this thread a chance to grow up.

Not again

Submitted by tunaman on Thu, 2005-11-10 14:48.
I have an idea. Equating conervatives with Nazis is getting old, equate us with Franco. It will break up the monotony of your insults.

Re: Not again

Submitted by pierrem on Thu, 2005-11-10 22:35.
And more Catholic conservatives can join in! Following Locke's comments, I'll worry about the Patriot Act when I hear about people I know being locked up for no reason, not after only two (count 'em, a whole two) American citizens being held as illegal combatants in 4 years of war.

don't think too hard

Submitted by Tom Hosmer (not verified) on Fri, 2005-11-11 05:05.
I looked real hard at the post and couldn't see where he/she equated conservatives with Nazis. But the fact that one Alvarado is taking it as an insult means there must be something to it.