IP: RE: ACLU "Bitterly Disappointed" in House-Senate Joint Passage of Anti-Terrorism Legislation

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
>
> [Note:  This comment comes from a reader who doesn't wish attribution.  DLH]
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> > To: "'dewayne () warpspeed com'" <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> > Subject: RE: ACLU "Bitterly Disappointed" in House-Senate Joint Passage 
> > of Anti-Terrorism Legislation
> > Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 06:59:18 -0700
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> > I agree with Mr Berger (and with Benjamin Franklin). It sure troubles me
> > when the government suddenly finds it necessary to start chipping away at
> > civil liberties under the guise of protecting us (Remember: "We're from the
> > government, and we're here to help you."
> >
> > One must wonder why some of the basic principles that have served us so well
> > for more than 200 years suddenly have become a problem for this
> > administration. Is there a hidden agenda here?
> >
> > Perhaps this administration needs to focus on doing a better job of
> > investigating this criminal act and those behind it (including a long, hard
> > look at what they missed earlier or failed to act upon) and bringing the
> > perpetrators to justice. Instead, it seems, it would rather restructure it
> > into an "act of war" and send in missiles and bombs that ultimately will
> > kill or injure many who had nothing at all to do with this horrible act in
> > order to satiate a desire to "do something" and to "get them."
> >
> > This smacks of racial profiling taken to its ultimate conclusion, and it's
> > being done in our name. And we wonder why some countries hate the US.


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