I'd smack him upside the haid (verbally, of course)...
About the "law abiding citizen has nothing to fear" bullshit. He's effectively called you a criminal, Peter, and I, for one, would not take such an affront from my non-Diebold-elected official without some serious fireworks, and a direct, face-to-face apology!
jb4
"Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'."
&mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration