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Re: [PLUG] Homeland Security Bill
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As this messege follows so perfectly upon the one I got on another list
immediately before it, all I can ask is what must be done now?
Citizens, this is your republic. If it is not it has lost all claim to
legitimacy. We are stuck on the rhetoric of blood, sweat and tears and
sunshine patriots. Nobody said that life was going to be easy.
bs
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 November 2002 01:24 pm, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > Geez, this is the worst I've read about this piece of crap currently
> > wending its way through Congress:
> >
> > <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html>
> >
> > This thing makes Echelon look like small potatoes.
> >
> > (This is only the faintest sliver off topic, since our profession
> > will be heavily affected by this kind of garbage.)
>
> Related: Monday, an ad hoc appeals court -- appointed to the case by
> Cheif Justice William Renquist, and consisting solely of Reagan
> appointees -- overturned a ruling by the secret intelligence court
> which had held certain provisions of the USA Patriot Act
> unconstitutional including intercepting email without probable cause.
> EPIC was one of the intervenors who won in the secret court and lost in
> the appeals court. The way the law is written, only the government can
> appeal. Since the government won, it looks like intercepted emails is
> the law. (there were other provisions upheld, but I tried to keep this
> a little on topic.)
> --
>
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