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To: CodeMonkey
May the people who denounce Bush's right-wing critics as traitors be the first to feel the effects of a democrat using the PATRIOT Act. I for one will laugh my ass off when they get detained indefinitely.

Now that's really a scary thought, and cause to question the wisdom of too much power concentrated in any one place.

40 posted on 11/04/2003 7:02:20 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (No, D*mnit! Your OTHER Right!)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Yes. Now maybe the Bushbots will start seeing the logic. If a terrorist is a terrorist, ie A=A and some anti-abortionists act like terrorists, then it could be curtains for much of the anti-abortion activists. What's the difference between blowing up the WTC and a legally sanctioned abortion clinic except scale for the purposes of the law? Like it or not, many Islamists are not active participants in the violence. They are Islamism's fellow travelers yet they're being detained. I find that it's scary how quickly many conservatives dismiss the possibility of an egregious abuse of executive power with these laws. I think it'll take a very bloody violation of many rights' civil rights to make them rethink their position on granting discressionary power to the fedgov.

I certainly despise Islam and as someone who follows a non-Abrahamic monotheistic religion I have a great incentive to oppose Islam in all of its forms, even "peaceful." I for one am just concerned that we'll see a wave of anti-gun rights, anti-abortion, etc PATRIOT usages under a democrat. Bin Laden's goal as he has made clear is to make us destroy ourselves. He knows that most Americans aren't rugged individualists, who with gun in hand, are ready to tell him and his fellow lunatics to bring it on.

48 posted on 11/04/2003 8:49:43 PM PST by CodeMonkey
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