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Originally posted by ARTelevision
The statement: "The real determiner of whether one likes or dislikes the Patriot Act is the amount of trust that one places in the US government" does it for me.
I'm pleased to live in a country - perhaps one of the very few - in which citizens do not often err in trusting the government.
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How does that affect your opinion on the Patriot Act? We do seem to live in scary times, but any student of history can tell you that the wolrd has always been a dangerous place filled with oppositional forces that are all to eager to rip each other to shreds. In times of crisis we must be doubly cautious that we do not throw away our liberty in pursuit of security. There have been times in the past when America has failed this test (the internment of Japanese citizens immediately springs to mind). I hope that we can avoid such failure now.