On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:06 AM, denstar wrote: > But seriously, you're talking about "preventing terrorist attacks"? > You'd only catch the lame-ass terrorists, as you well know. The > scary, rich, powerful ones are way past hotmail and plain 'old > cellphones, dude. Library books? > That's totally besides the point tho, as we're way past having > accountability and TRANSPARENCY.
Some of the ways the Patriot Act has been used are over the line, I agree with that. But it has also been used in ways that have directly foiled attempted attacks. All of the people in Congress who have seen the evidence have come away satisfied that we need to be doing what we are doing to protect ourselves. Democrats who are no friends of the Bush Administration are on the same page as Republicans. In this political climate, the fact that they can agree on something tells me that it is a very important thing. > From what I've learned, you simply cannot trust the government. And > that seems as it should be, from history, and whatnot. A certain amount of mistrust of government is a necessary part of life. > See, it's not really "the government"... > > it's us. The government is us, right? All of us. I'm bored with this topic, let's talk about something else. ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:269928 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
