"jk" wrote in message
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Gunner Asch wrote:



Ive yet to see a credible piece of objective evidence that anyone has
lost their freedoms or privacy because of interception of phone calls,
or having their library records checked, or even as a direct result of
the Patriot Act.


Well I would say interception of phone calls, is de facto a loss of
privacy.

Equally clearly, the news has had any number of reports of people
loosing their freedoms as direct result of the patriot act. Now
admittedly a number of them seem to have deserved to loose those
freedoms, but definitely as a result of the act.

jk


If the government starts overstepping its boundaries and depriving people of
their freedoms like it has done so many times in the past, what makes you
think you are going to know about it? When people start "disappearing" and
getting wrongly imprisoned it usually takes quite a while before anyone
knows anything about it.

Hawke