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The Continuing Hunt for PATRIOT Act Abuses
Throtex writes "Orin Kerr, Associate Professor of Law at George Washington University writes at The Volokh Conspiracy that the Department of Justice is having trouble finding abuses of the USA PATRIOT Act. This follows from the fact that what the media originally aired as abuses were merely allegations of abuse at the time. Could it be that there has just been a lot of fuss over nothing?"
There is a real traitor in the whitehouse who DID give up the name of a CIA operative. That is treason by law, and by common sense. That person should be executed by rifle, in my book. In addition, the WH is sheltering this person. They should be arrested for aiding and abbeting a known criminal.
OTH, there are americans being held in Gitmo, but it is not known fully known what their status was. In at least one case, it is believed that it was simply somebody on the wrong side of the line. No gun. No ammo. Nothing on them to indicate that they were treasonists. Yet, they are denied access to legal aide and are held in unknown conditions.
However, if they are tried in a normal court with adequate access to legal aide, and was found to be treasonists by taking up arms against us, then fine; Shoot them as well.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I think the benefit of the doubt should go to the poster over the moderator. People are too quick to assume that an opinion they disagree with must have a nefarious underlying motive. The proper way to answer an honest but misguided posting is by replying, not moderating.
In other words, any vaguelly reasonable posting should not be modded negatively.
Better ignore my sig when reading this.
Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down. Likewise, agreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it up. The goal here is to share ideas. To sift through the haystack and find needles. And to keep the children who like to spam Slashdot in check.