IP: Re: Life during wartime

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:37:33 -0400
> From: Richard Fritzson <fritzson () cs umbc edu>
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> Subject: Re: IP: Life during wartime
>
> This often repeated argument misses the point.
>
> Many people opposed to the proposed limits on our liberties feel that one 
> of the purposes of calling the current actions a "war on terrorism" 
> instead of a "campaign against terrorism" or some other more accurate term 
> is to justify these repressive measures along with many other formerly 
> unacceptable actions we are now being called on to endorse and support.
>
> The words which frighten me most these days come from our Department of 
> Defense which has already determined that "like the cold war, this war 
> will last for years" and have suggested in interviews that "this war will 
> last longer than our lifetime" or "we may be preparing for the next 
> hundred year war".
>
> These 'proposed limits on our liberties' may well be around for the rest 
> of our lives. We should not talk about them as temporary wartime measures.
>
>    Rich Fritzson


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