You don't believe in Windows backdoors... this is the same company that embedded a flight simulator in Word or Excel (been a while don't remember which one). I believe it was Word 97 and you can probably still find internet references to it.
There's a couple of problems with your argument. I don't know the exact statistics, but I'm sure you're more likely to lose your child to a school shooting, car accident, home accident, abduction, drive by shooting, disease, and all of these things are still not that probable. Everyone likes to say well what they're doing must be working because we haven't had another attack... how many terroists attacks did we have on US soil in the 10 decades before 9/11??? Well there must have been 100... no... 10... no... 1!!! You mean there was only 1! So you're telling me that there was only 1 fatal attack by FOREIGN terrorists on US soil before 9/11? Yep... and that was strangely enough the first World Trade Center bombing where 6 people died. So do me a favor... if you can find a way to give up your rights while I keep mine have at it... I'd like to retain mine. And by the way... I have 3 sons and they're doing great!
That is fantastic information, and I would like to know the source so I can read it in detail. You're one of the more enlightened who has actually read the full text of the Patriot Act... or have you just read and repeated something written by someone else, who repeated it from someone else, from someone else, etc... If I'm wrong accept my apology now.
If you're right I applaud you and wish there were more like you, and a lot less reasons to need more like you. I also wonder that if all of this was done so effectively why did we need warrantless wiretaps??? Hhhmmmm...
Bottom line is that almost no one has read the full text of the Patriot Act partially due to the numerous links to external documents and the length of the act itself.
Here's a few things to chew on that I didn't say...
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE):
"If we abandon the liberties we cherish, the terrorists will have won." (Cong.Rec., 9/12/01)
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX14):
"Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure. Nothing would please the terrorists more than if we willingly gave up some of our cherished liberties while defending ourselves from their threat." (Cong.Rec., 09/11/01)
Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA07):
"What we must avoid, however, is the knee-jerk reaction to pass more laws restricting the civil liberties of American citizens. The tragedies of this attack will only be compounded by giving the government more power at the expense of our civil liberties. If we cannot stop this sort of attack with all of the power our government agencies already have, then we are in very serious trouble. As I have said, the one area where the government can and must approve is in allowing more latitude to gain information overseas and in taking direct action against terrorists." (Cong.Rec., 9/11/01)
Not a single one of your much hated leftists in the bunch!
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You don't believe in Windows backdoors... this is the same company that embedded a flight simulator in Word or Excel (been a while don't remember which one). I believe it was Word 97 and you can probably still find internet references to it.
There's a couple of problems with your argument. I don't know the exact statistics, but I'm sure you're more likely to lose your child to a school shooting, car accident, home accident, abduction, drive by shooting, disease, and all of these things are still not that probable. Everyone likes to say well what they're doing must be working because we haven't had another attack... how many terroists attacks did we have on US soil in the 10 decades before 9/11??? Well there must have been 100... no... 10... no... 1!!! You mean there was only 1! So you're telling me that there was only 1 fatal attack by FOREIGN terrorists on US soil before 9/11? Yep... and that was strangely enough the first World Trade Center bombing where 6 people died. So do me a favor... if you can find a way to give up your rights while I keep mine have at it... I'd like to retain mine. And by the way... I have 3 sons and they're doing great!
That is fantastic information, and I would like to know the source so I can read it in detail. You're one of the more enlightened who has actually read the full text of the Patriot Act... or have you just read and repeated something written by someone else, who repeated it from someone else, from someone else, etc... If I'm wrong accept my apology now. If you're right I applaud you and wish there were more like you, and a lot less reasons to need more like you. I also wonder that if all of this was done so effectively why did we need warrantless wiretaps??? Hhhmmmm... Bottom line is that almost no one has read the full text of the Patriot Act partially due to the numerous links to external documents and the length of the act itself. Here's a few things to chew on that I didn't say... Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE): "If we abandon the liberties we cherish, the terrorists will have won." (Cong.Rec., 9/12/01) Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX14): "Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure. Nothing would please the terrorists more than if we willingly gave up some of our cherished liberties while defending ourselves from their threat." (Cong.Rec., 09/11/01) Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA07): "What we must avoid, however, is the knee-jerk reaction to pass more laws restricting the civil liberties of American citizens. The tragedies of this attack will only be compounded by giving the government more power at the expense of our civil liberties. If we cannot stop this sort of attack with all of the power our government agencies already have, then we are in very serious trouble. As I have said, the one area where the government can and must approve is in allowing more latitude to gain information overseas and in taking direct action against terrorists." (Cong.Rec., 9/11/01) Not a single one of your much hated leftists in the bunch!