07-11-2013, 03:22 PM
cbelt3 wrote:
Lemon-
Yup. Most folk tend to stand up when they recognize that their personal civil rights have been violated instead of the rights of 'those people'. And the wild overreaching on the poorly written reactionary law has made that clear.
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Yes, good point, if you think back to the political climate of fall 2001...there was in fact great concern from civil libertarians about the Patriot Act, specifically the domestic wire-tapping and other spying on US citizens that was allowed, but that concern was squelched by Congress and by the Bush administration.
Remember the argument that 9/11 could have been prevented if our law enforcement agencies had less "red tape" to deal with?
Well, some of that "red tape" was about protection of constitutionally protected rights, and we let that go.
Who knows if we get it back, ever.