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RE:

Originally posted by Atrocities:
If this were true, then why in the hell aren't all the protesters in Jail? Why have they not been declared enemies of the state and tossed away?

Simply, the law does not work like that. The Patriot Act allows for violations of other rights, but it does not give them the right to just "throw" any one for any thing into jail without due-process.

And what does any of this have to do with the current discussion?

Because you said ""Follow me or I will have crows peck out your eyes!"... Sounds like a dictator to me. I just don't know."

And so I was drawing the obvious parrellel between then and now in terms of dictators.

And, in reference to:

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Simply, the law does not work like that. The Patriot Act allows for violations of other rights, but it does not give them the right to just "throw" any one for any thing into jail without due-process.

Well, as I understand it, the Patriot act gives the government the right to "throw just anyone in jail" so long as they are declared to be "terrorists" - and does revoke their right to due process, representation, outside notification, etc all based on the good faith of the government. And they say they don;t torture people too...the point being that no one is watching the watchmen, the people now rely upon the good faith of the government to govern itself and its behaviour unless I've got it wrong...and, in terms of this discussion, heck, not sure that it does relate, but someone brought up dictators...although if you ask me, any decent christian nowadays should be considering Bush and Ashcroft to be the latest incarnations of the anti-christ...