Whatever happened to the Republican argument of "If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about..."?
-----Original Message----- From: Jerry Milo Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 7:47 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Verixon/NSA? I did not think they would expand the definition of terrorist. But I did think they would start using the same tools for "normal" policing. And then if not stopped, for political uses. And then if not stopped for corporate strongarming. (Turns out I might have been wrong about that first one, expanding who is a terrorist) On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps it wasn't this list, but if memory serves, in the post 9/11 > days, I felt like the proverbial voice in the wilderness when I > insisted that if the government was granted the power to do > warrant-less wiretaps or make arrests of "terrorists" they would > label anyone who disagree with them a terrorists. I was then > thoroughly pummeled for not loving my country or being a patriot. > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I don't remember _anyone_ on this list, except maybe Sam (blindly > > supporting Bush, not because he agreed), being in favor of the > > Patriot > Act. > > I remember much gnashing of teeth, knowing where it would probably lead. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364311 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
