Thread: The Patriot Act is nothing new
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Old 08-04-2008, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by AllieBaba View Post
And they were released when the threat was over. So there was no long-term erosion of freedom.
Lincoln ignored the Due Process provisions with respect to US citizens. Roosevelt followed suit 80 years later. Bush again tried it recently. Do you see a pattern? Does a continuing practice of suspending rights during wartime not qualify as an erosion of liberty? Do rights cease to matter when the Executive (or Legislative) branches say so?
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