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For all of the talk of Bush taking away our Civil and Constitutional Rights(One might even argue that these are one in the same) for the sake of national security, no one seems to realize that this has been happening since the beginning of the United States, as well as history. It is not uncommon for the government of any country to suspend the rights of the people when it is deemed that these rights will interfere with the country's interests. For further proof look up the Sedition Act of 1798 and it's many iterations since then. The Patriot Act was not the first to suspend the Rights of the citizenry in order to protect the United States.
It is a necessary evil, like it or not. Bush was not the first, nor will he be the last. It is not an issue of Republican and Democrat.
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"There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another: but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school." -- Thucydides
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