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Originally posted by ARTelevision
I think that is an admonition to determine what safegaurds will be necessary to protect against the abuses of the implementations of the tool in question. Those would be extrinsic to the tool itself and need to be created or applied separately. These would include things like laws clatrifying or strengthening liberties that might be abused or using existing law itself as an interpretive tool or safeguard. It would even include tests of the constitutionality of the instrument or parts of it as implemented.
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Such fancy diction, but I can't help but read that as "pass any laws now, fix later". I can't see that kind of logic as prudent way to preserve civil liberties. That kinda of legislative logic, as Lucas would suggest, is the path down the Dark Side.
I like hypotheticals and fun exercises in legislative theory, but I was wondering what *exact* safeguards the Patriot act had in it. I'm still waiting on a specific answer on this question, because your hypothetical seemed to suggest that the Patriot Act, with good reason, was written without safeguards.
Patriot Act. No Safeguards. Darkside.