On 12/7/05, Brian reflection@gmail.com wrote:
Many feel that the [[USA PATRIOT Act]] was only passed on the basis of it being a highly emotional, gut reaction. Pretty much everyone was OK with it at first, but over time a lot of Americans have come to wonder if it violates some of our very basic principles. That's just a surface analogy - don't read into it too far. The point is that, whether or not it is a perennial suggestion, and whether or not an article existed for several months and displayed a prominent person as an assassin, we should absolutely not go against the principles that got us here.
Perfectly said.