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DOJ spending your money to take your rights
by Decius at 11:06 pm EDT, Sep 23, 2003

On the one hand, its good to have access to their views. On the other hand, they are very careful about what they say. Enemy Combatant detention authority may have been sustained, but frankly, the only people who agree that this is a good idea are people who self identify with the government and feel like they should be able to do anything to "bad guys." No reasonable explanations for this power have been made to the public, and by not making one here the DOJ further demonstrates that its not defensible.

This is just an example. The ACLU ought to offer a response.

RE: DOJ spending your money to take your rights
by Abaddon at 10:18 am EDT, Sep 24, 2003

Decius wrote:
] This is just an example. The ACLU ought to offer a response.

this is actually in direct responce to the ACLU's compain against the patriot act...

while I don't see anything directly illegal about the DOJ campain, I am always suspicious of governemtn PR campains, for this one reason...the people of a democratic nation are supposed to try to influence the views and actions of its government as they relate to political issues..the government is not generally supposed to try to do things the other way around and use thier powers to influence the people on political issues...its a bit of wagging the dog when they do...

this is of course just as it relates to political matters, but I feel it is akin to the whitehouse budget being used for GOP television adds...and while some of this does happen from time to time, for the DOJ to have such a substantial PR campain to defend a law that is already on the books is pretty signifigant...

if nothing else it's a waste of tax payers money, in that they are using our money to try and convense us that something we already did was just...wouldn't that money be better spent, oh, I don't know, hunting down these terrorists that everyone seems so afraid of these days...

--Abaddon

DOJ spending your money to take your rights
by Abaddon at 3:46 pm EDT, Sep 23, 2003

This web site is a government run web page that is dedicated to making you feel better about the US patriot act...

its already a law, so why do they feel so threatened by it?...perhaps its because they know it does not have real support in this country, and if its not overturned before 2005, most of its provisions will not be renewed...

I dont see why a branch of the government is spending out money to influence our political views, when I elect a democrat I do not expect them to have government paid PR compains targetted at their political oponents...so why am I getting this from our current administration...

--Abaddon

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