Subj : Re: OT Military
To   : All
From : Cherokee
Date : Mon Jan 13 2003 12:27 pm

The Bill of Rights hasn't been touched. It takes a Constitutional
Amendment to do that.  If there is anything wrong with the Patriot Act,
the courts will set it straight eventually.

I don't think the Islamic fundamentalist radicals will back off, but
those are not the ones we are proposing to fight a war against.  Sure
it's all related, but the issue at hand is Saddam Hussein and his WMD.

I do believe that US policy in the Middle East is flawed and is
responsible for the increase in anti-US sentiment worldwide.

Until we stop blindly supporting Israel (and ignoring Israeli abuse of
the Palestinians), Arabs and Muslims everywhere will continue to hate
us.



--- col sanders <twgsdotorg@twgs.org> wrote:
> 
> My concerns are that while I don't necessarily fear anything from the
> 
> current administration, weakening the Bill of Rights for future 
> administrations is quite dangerous, if for example we got another 
> Clinton type in office, imagine the danger to those of  us that are
> not 
> secularly mainstream.  The USA Patriot act is bad, ignoring due
> process 
> is bad, the DMCA is bad.   I am still hoping they will have the balls
> to 
> reverse the bad law the first Bush signed regarding "assault
> weapons". 
>  They also need to reopen the streets in DC, the great Coward
> (Clinton) 
> should be the last coward, let DC return to pre-Clinton normalcy.
> 
> Regarding the need to fight a war, let me ask you this, do you really
> 
> believe that the US can do ANYTHING that will met by the radical 
> muslim/arab terrorist groups backing off?  Is that even possible at
> this 
> point?  I don't believe so...  Maybe you do...
> 
> Cherokee

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