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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
We've talked about the reaches of the patriot act, sneak and peek searches, library info demands and gag orders, enemy combatant rights (or non-rights), and wiretaps (legal or illegal), so my question is when is it enough?
Now, is this too far? for the government to go snooping through our snail mail also?
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The real problem I have with this stuff is that it never goes away. If the threat of terrorism ends these policies won't. Even if people belive this is for their own good, the inevitable abuse of unchecked power will always be there. I wonder if these war on terrorism supporters will have the same view in 08 when Hillary is acknowledging that she does illegal wiretaps too.
Yes, it's all too much. Commander in chief means he's the commander of the military not the American people. Bush needs to stop breaking the law.
Why was this guys mail even opened? Sounds pretty stupid and pointless to me, but hey lets defend this practice just for the hell of it anyhow. They can't even provide an example of the reasoning that goes behind opening mail: "obviously it's a security-related criteria" ..... o rly?