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How Has Post-9/11 Legislation Affected You?
goldspider asks: "I hope this is received in the spirit it was intended in. In a recent Reuters article, the Internet as a whole has been referred to as 'collateral damage' of the U.S.-led War on Terrorism, because of the perceived loss in privacy and online rights as a result of post-9/11 legislation. I am curious to hear about some specific examples of how this legislation has personally or professionally affected the everyday lives of Slashdot readers."
No people do not have any more respect for you, they are just afraid that if they say ANYTHING you will have them delayed for a "THROUGH CHECK" and they will miss their flight.
One last question. How may nursing women have you made drink their own breast milk to make sure it is "SAFE"???
He didn't say George W "Huked on fonix werkt four me!" Bush was any better, did he?
Clinton deserves all the abuse he gets. As for the idiots that elected his wife, well, I pity them (not so much that I don't openly laugh in their faces).
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
This has less to do with 9/11 legislation than it has to do with you being a dickhead. Buy a fucking ticket, you pompous ass.
If Mr. al-Muhajir was not waging war on the US, he will be remanded to the justice department by a civilian judge at the end of his current hearing.
If he was was waging war, he will be treated as a prisoner of war -- or did you think that when our brave men stormed up the cliffs on D-Day they read a Miranda warning to the Germans at the top and put them in touch with defense lawyers?
Mind you, your other comments give away your actual agenda here. Of course I am aware that there are those in the world who view our ideals and our actions with contempt. As I said, the American government is not responsible to them, it is responsible to the American people, and that means that defending the American people is a higher priority than kowtowing to European appeasers or third-world tyrants.
Times have changed. European-ness envy is no longer the guiding principal of American foreign policy.
With due respect, if you haven't heard the administration say what the aims of this war are, you haven't been listening at all. The administration has been crystal clear about what our goals are, most notably in speeches on September 20, 2001, in the state of the Union, in speeches last month at West point and the VFW, this very morning and evening, and dozens of other times through the spring and summer.
We are fighting to dismantle a specific network of terrorists which has attacked us in the name of their twisted ideology, and to deter or dethrone those states who are developing weapons of mass destruction which could make their next attack many times more deadly than those attacks we have already suffered:. As very clearly specified in the Bush Doctrine, we are doing so as an exertion of our national right to self defense, both active and anticipatory. This is not the first time the US has been forced into such a war, and as much as we may wish it to be, it may not, be the last time.
Now it's easy for you to sit in your chair, and pretend that this war is `never ending' or is about `perpetual war', but only an idiot could believe that these, rather than what I saw in downtown Manhattan with my own eyes a year ago today are the reason we fight.