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Re: this inflames me... (no OtR)

FWIW, it does go far, I'll admit, but if someone was going to hijack a plane 
tomorrow and kill me and thousand of my fellow citizens, I would want the 
government to detain them today.  Of course, that implies that the 
government knows for sure the person will do this.  Sometimes innocent 
people get detained, I don't deny that.  It would be easier for the gov't if 
they could know beyond the shadow of a doubt what a person was going to do, 
but if they did, they would have to know us all that well, which would be 
worse.



>From: Dan Temmesfeld <dtemm at yahoo_com>
>Reply-To: Dan Temmesfeld <dtemm at yahoo_com>
>To: OtR <over-the-rhine at actwin_com>
>Subject: this inflames me...  (no OtR)
>Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 05:18:15 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>i'm not a political person.  i haven't voted since
>1994.  it's not my thing.  partly because i am just
>fairly apathetic about most individuals that try to
>govern a population of any size (whether it be in
>politics, religion, corporate culture).  perhaps it's
>my insubordinate nature, whatever.  or perhaps it's
>due to being a 3rd grader and learning that i could
>never be President of the United States due to where
>i was born.  that a stunningly sad thing to learn at
>that age.  not like i'd ever be President (i'm far
>too shy), but the *FACT* that i could never be
>President due to being born in Nigeria was a harsh
>reality at 3rd grade.  anyway... i digress...
>
>that being said, i was talking with my fiancee last
>night, and she was disturbed about something put
>into law last fall called the USA PATRIOT Act.
>
>i didn't think that it could be nearly as bad as she
>was making it out to be.  wrong.  it is.
>
>http://www.ccr-ny.org/whatsnew/usa_patriot_act.asp
>
>basically, the majority of it tramples many of our
>rights established in the bill of rights.
>
>i can say that i'm fortunate, lucky, providentially
>happy that i have been raised in a country that i
>have many freedoms that many in other countries do
>not have.
>
>this new USA PATRIOT Act, which i gather is in effect
>NOW, makes it lawful for the government to detain
>immigrants for no real substantial reason, for no
>real substantial amount of time.  they can hold some
>one for how ever long they want, without charging
>them with any crime.
>
>this part is ridiculous, and it's racist and pre-
>judiced in nature.  sure, what happened on 9/11/01
>was a sever tragedy.  but that shouldn't give us the
>right to lock someone up just because they are of
>a certain race/religion.  we stole this land in the
>first place... we should at least make it so it is a
>free land for anyone to live in.
>
>the part about the new USA PATRIOT Act that inflames
>me is the part about warrantless search.  basically
>someone in the government could come in a search my
>house, with no warrant.  *and* they don't even have
>to tell me that they searched.
>
>it's true.  the Act states those powers.  read it
>yourself:
>
>http://www.ccr-ny.org/whatsnew/usa_patriot_act.asp
>
>it's bullshit.  Orwell warned about this crap.  it's
>blatantly NOT RIGHT.  it's a step in the absolute
>wrong direction for a democratic republic.  i guess
>we can thank King George.
>
>other than gas prices being outrageous, maybe Canada
>is not such a bad place to raise a family.
>
>weighing options,
>Dan
>
>np: incubus - morning view
>
>
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