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Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
The first Patriot Act was needed in light of an unknown, but tangible threat. Also, it had an expiration date so that we could consider its impact, and not be stuck with a diminishment of liberty.
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The Patriot Act is an infringement of our Constitutional Rights in my opinion.
When you have lived through eras of "illegal" wiretapping, infiltration by law enforcement of unions and other "suspicious" groups (like political parties and anti-war groups who are operating totally within their rights), you may look back and not take this so lightly.
There is no "apples and apples" conparison between this case and the Patriot Act, but I can understand why someone would try to parrallel the two under the circumstances.
As for the original story in this thread, I'm just glad that the times are past when I was in college and students were being arrested in "no knock" raids and being sentenced to twenty year in the Ohio Penitentiary (not a nice place) for possession of marijuana.
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