inignoct wrote:
] ] We, as a nation, need to ask ourselves some pretty hard
] ] questions about this incident.
] ]
] ]
] ] The sad fact is that local officials were not acting in a
] ] manner much different from the way in which many of our
] ] national leaders have been acting in the two years since
] ] Sept. 11, 2001. I speak primarily of the rampant,
] ] institutionalized violations of privacy by our
] ] government, and the sky-is-falling mentality of fear that
] ] continues to grip our nation and colors much of what
] ] passes for national policy these days.
]
] indeed. good article by Bob Barr...
]
] it's getting to the point where being an unhappy kid, or maybe
] even just a creative one, is indicative of radical mental
] disease and maladjustment. god forbid that the youth of
] america should express themselves...

I've really been surprised by a lot of the comments that machine-gun-bob has been making lately. He's probably the last person I would have expected to be critical of the PATRIOT act.

Mike wrote:
] I've really been surprised by a lot of the comments that
] machine-gun-bob has been making lately. He's probably the
] last person I would have expected to be critical of the
] PATRIOT act.

yeah, i've also been pretty damn surprised by how often i'm agreeing with his articles in CL. But, good commentary is still good even if i hate the source.