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Re: Patriotism or Mass Hysteria?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:42:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> However I do support investigation and infiltration of groups that are
> violent or have acted violently in the past. In this particular case, that
> includes ANSWER since they're closely affiliated with groups previously
> funded by the USSR that acted violently. We beat up our police for not doing
> a better job of stopping 9/11 based on knowledge they could have had by
> running correlations of public information, after all.
I disagree. There should be no grey area here: you either have the right of
unfettered assembly or you do not. The government has no right to
infiltrate a group on the mere suspicion that they will act violently.
Please see: http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=17816
You're not quite the freedom lover I thought you were, Lar.
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) Agreed. Equal protection under the law means that the government (which has the force initiation monopoly, remember) has to take all unlawful actions seriously. These people making threats need to be found and prosecuted, in my view. (...) I'm (...) (21 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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