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Originally Posted by Seaver
I'm sorry, but I have a MUCH harder time accepting the forced gun registration than internet or library logging. Yet you support the government knowing every single person who owns a gun (only legally, a very small % of guns used in crime), but looking up how to build bombs out of Walmart supplies is protected?
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I know I don't have to inform you of the events I'm referencing, but nothing in the Patriot Act frightens me nearly as much as the lack of punishment for those involved in the Ruby Ridge fiasco.
For those who don't wish to Google "Randy Weaver" or "Ruby Ridge," a citizen was entrapped by agents of the US government, and his refusal to infiltrate a group the government wanted to investigate resulted in federal agents shooting his wife and son to death. This is a very abridged version. The US government was found to have lied in the subsequent court case, and Randy received a $3 million settlement. However, his family members were still dead, and to my knowledge, none of the perpetrators have been punished in any way.
That scares me a hell of a lot more than the Patriot Act, and very few people seem to have gotten excited about it, or remember it.
Two family members were the cost of Weaver's freedom. It annoys the hell out of me that so few people are aware of the "incident," but (semi-threadjack) so many were referencing "manslaughter" in regard to Cheney's problem.