[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I agree, but fear should not be used as a tool to stamped the American >> people into an unnecessary war with Iraq or manipulate congress into >> passing legislation that surrenders the American people's Constitutional >> freedoms, due process, and privacy. Theodore Roosevelt made a famous >> statement in his radio address to the nation, after the booming of Pearl >> Harbor: >> > > A couple of points... > 1. You gotta spend at least $10 to get a good spell checker... the American > people were not stamped >
Whoops, that should have been "stampeded" in case you weren't able to figure it out. > 2. The Patriot Act (and I have a few misgivings about some provisions) is > primarily about surveillance of foreigners in the US. If they happen to be > dealing with US citizens, then US citizens will get caught up in the process. > Many plots have been disrupted because of it. But the driveby media will > not report the few that have been made public. Read John Ashcroft's book > Never Again. > Surveillance, both domestic and foreign, can be handled just fine within the USA Constitutional system. Creating a two or more system of justice, (eg Geneva Convention for the military, Constitutional criminal justice system for the non-military, and a Patriot Act Injustice system that can be applied to the military, non-military, an everywhere in between, is too confusing and give a dangerous amount of power to our government. I'm sure the Patriot Act provides the military and law enforcement with certain advantages, but an accused individual today has no way of knowing under which system he will fall. Sometimes the accused might be threatened with "Cooperate with law enforcement or we will make you disappear forever by sending you to Guantanamo", for example. The next thing you know the country will have an Nazi like SS. > 3. It was Franklin. Teddy was a good guy, non-socialist and famed coffee > drinker. > I knew that. LOL Regards, LelandJ > -- > Larry Miller > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/mixed > text/plain (text body -- kept) > message/rfc822 > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
