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Before we start dismantling constitutionally protected safeguards and diminishing fundamental rights to privacy, we should first examine why last week\ufffds attacks occurred
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It was a congess critter, it wasn't a Democrat nor any flavor of liberal.
In an [link|http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=796987|Economist] article on civil liberties, about halfway down the page, Bob Barr ferchrissakes is quoted citing concerns over civil liberties. I don't think this will get steamrollered in quite as easily as some suspect.