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. RE: Creative Loafing Atlanta | NEWS & VIEWS | THE TERROR OF A TEENAGER'S DIARY |