The U.S. Senate voted in the Patriot's bill permanently into our government. Say goodbye to your freedoms folks! Your Senators sold out to Bush's ridiculous concept of independence and freedoms. They are now only found in the Federal Government and lost by all individual Americans.

Yesterday was also a bad day for me as Harrty Browne died. He was the founder and head honcho of the Libertarian Party. You know the party of individual freedoms.....

America completely changed on Thursday March 2nd. Welcome Theocracy!

...and hello to more security.

Did we really lose any freedoms? I hadnt noticed.

To give us more security, which is what we wanted. Good to know our representatives are doing what we elected them to do.

...and weak foreign policy. Yes, I am familiar with the Libertarians.

I agree. it came closer to representing the will of the majority of Americans.

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I thought I lost my freedom yesterday. Turned out I just put it in the wrong pocket. Oh well. I made a copy of my freedom last week in case I lose it again.

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That information is classified and to be given only on a need-to-know basis...

And I do not need to know.

Good Idea, because I do the same thing. I would lose my head if it weren't screwed on tight.

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WMD
Writings of Mass Destruction

Java, I thought you were only just engaged!

Libertarians, regardless of how strongly I oppose their domestic social views, aren't "soft" on national security. In foreign policy, a libertarian/paleoconservative approach makes us more secure than any other in the long term.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

Losing freedoms? Why dont you try my little trick - I keep telling myself, over and over again, how really really free I am, I insistently, unrelentingly (almost convincingly!) urge the perfect nature of my freedom, how really, truly truly blessed with absolute freedom I am, and you know something, it works! No one has ever been able to strip me of my most precious lovely lovely free freedoms which I hold so dear and lovely lovingly cherish...

(Hey, just now, didnt I have two legs when I came in.....?)

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security"

-Benjamin Franklin

My view of the Patriot Act and the NSA eavesdropping is that they are merely examples of what has been occurring for years anyway. The government has always found ways of spying on its citizens (e.g. J. Edgar Hoover) and undoubtedly has found excuses to search them and their property without warrants (or at least warrants obtained prior to the search) as well. So, while I oppose them in principle, perhaps the fact that the government is brazen enough to make the Patriot Act permanent may wake up people who imagine that this sort of thing hasn't been going on all along. It doesn't strike fear in me, but neither does terrorism. I don't feel safer or less safe because of these measures, though my personal view of them might be quite different if I were a Muslim and/or an Arab. Regardless, the world isn't coming to an end, because etching the Patriot Act into permanent law is just an official affirmation of decades of arrogant, invasive federal government policies. If democracy wasn't destroyed by J. Edgar Hoover, then I submit that no one today will destroy it by means similar to his.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

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"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

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