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Our country
I understand where Pete G and the Raven are coming from, but after all congress was briefed 12 times on who, what, when, and where. The people who want to unseat Bush Jr. just did not or forgot to attend those meetings. We have so many safeguards in place such as big mouth news reporters, print or electronic, who bribe pentagon employees in one way or another and who are trying to curry favor with thier editors, NOT US, by getting classified documents leaked and printed in the newspaper or voiced on a television broadcast. Let be serious here for a moment, who here actually though this never took place? As far as do these person who may not be citizens deserve all the same rights as us, maybe, maybe not. The war on terrorists and terror can and is an extraordinarily broad and all encompassing activity sometimes inocents will get swept up in a good goverment employees zeal. If these same poeple were as active and successfull on September 10, 2001 and captured or killed Mr. Atta and his associates and it becoame public that the success the government had in taking out Atta was based on wiretap evidence, would anyone here complain about that surveillance now. I mean Mr. Atta was living here if only for a short period of time so he would have those same inalienable rights as us, no. We will never know how many incidents of violence have been averted by wiretaps or surveillance. The only time I have found that anyone really cares is when it becomes public. Out of sight out of mind.
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