"An America that creates a secret police power which can by its secret discretion invade the privacy of Americans and intimidate them is a far cry from what our Founders envisioned and from what we have fought to protect for 228 years.
A country where you are visited by the authorities for thinking or voicing an unpopular idea smacks more of the Taliban than Thomas Jefferson. Trading in our basic rights for the false facade of security is not worth it ? and it is not worthy of a great nation such as America.
We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night. So it is time to end the era of John Ashcroft.
That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time...."
For the rest of it see:
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/s...2003_1201.html
Sorry, couldn't resist. But this thread had clearly become political already.
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Originally posted by solops:
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Originally posted by PvK:
The "Patriot Act" was when the largest chunk of your freedom in recent memory went away.
PvK
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Truth.