What alternatives does the government have? Plenty! Why don't they try working on the communication problems they have between the intelligence gathering organizations? Why not work on how our foreign policy might be influencing the US' perception to the rest of the world? Why not limit the crap we broadcast to the rest of the world? There is actually plenty they can do that doesn't involve removing its citizen's privacy and civil liberties.

And, of course there are terrorists in the US. Timothy McVeigh was one. Every serial killer, rapist, Klan member and most fundamentalist Christians are terrorists. The US is full of groups and individuals who live on the fringe and wish to intimidate and hurt/maime/kill/control those who don't agree with their agendas, aren't the right color or call God, Allah. Again, these events haven't produced the sorts of invasions that Ashcroft and Co. wish to perform.

As for enforcement of laws, I believe that is more a resource issue than anything else. Having more laws made by those who are primarily responsible for their "corruption" isn't the answer. Ashcroft and those drafting these bills have been around for a long time. Do you think they don't know what they are doing? Creating new laws to limit our civil liberties will not fix the enforcement problem. And Allah is just a synonym for God. Islam is a monotheistic religion, by the way, and even they recognize Jesus as a prophet, just not *the last* prophet. Thinking that the passage of Anti-Terrorist laws is going to prevent you from calling out Allah is a little melodramatic, don't you think?

One good thing has come from this document, proof that there is at least one true patriot in the government - the person who released it to the press.

Supporting these attempts to confine US citizens to constant surveillance and fear of being considered an accidental supporter of "terrorist" organizations is a slap in the face to the risk this person took to warn us of what our duly un-elected administration is trying to pull.

May God/Allah/Buddha/Krishna/Great Space Slug/The Force Bless America!

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