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Originally posted by Strange Famous
2, You make people who call for police or who call for the state's powers to be held in check unpatriotic.
Whether you are Blair, or Bush, or Hussain, it works in the same way.
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The differnce of course is that in Iraq you would have been jailed for even posting this sort of thing, while in the US you are free to do so. People who whine about the patriot act tend to whine about what future laws will be. The US has had times where civil liberties were supressed to a much much greater degree (Civil War and WWII come to mind first) yet nothing long term came of it.