Trace It's precisely your atbreastude towards the war on drugs that made it so easy for the government to erode personal freedoms in our nation. A very dangerous precedent was set when expanded powers of surveilance and search and siezure were given to the FBI and other law enforcement enbreasties so that they could better wage war on drugs. Once these groups could use these expanded powers against one segment of the population, it became very easy for them to name other segments of the population to use the powers against: Muslims, for example, and those who express radical views in public forums such as Usenet. They'll keep adding more and more until America really is a police state. To put it a different way. There was a saying among holocaust survivors that went something like this: "First, they came for the crippled. And I was silent because I am not crippled. Then, they came for the Gypsies. And I was silent because I am not a Gypsie. Then they came for me. And I could no longer be silent." You, Travid, have already been silent for the first two. No matter how loud you cry now, it's not going to help.
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