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Posted By: tbob

are fighting on the final battleground, the 4th Amendment, which will keep ALL citizens from being the subject of unreasonable searches and seizures from wiretapping to unwarranted searches of your home and vehicle for no reason. In the aftermath of the horrible tragedy of 9-11, the Patriot Act and other abominations have been used against ordinary citizens like a sledgehammer killing a gnat. We all want to be safe and secure in our lives but if the powers that be have their way, we will take a huge step backward in to the morass of privacy violations of unrivaled proportion.
I know where you are coming from, Adam, but the words of John F. Kennedy still ring clear 45 years later, when he said that when the rights of one man are threatened, the rights of all men are diminished. This is something that both leftists and rightists can agree upon.
By the way, we aren't all scumbags and jerks...