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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Please note that the USA PATRIOT Act should appear in all caps because at the time its drafters did not have the cojones to actually call the thing the Patriot Act, and instead called it the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act," which itself should be some sort of federal misdemeanor.
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True dat. It's proper form in Bush's Congress these days to create federal legislation with nifty acronyms that connote action! or patriotism! or mom-and-apple-pie! moments that simply
must be a good thing, even if the act's substance has only a tenuous relationship to the image presented.
USA PATRIOT Act is one. CAN-SPAM is another that comes to mind, which ostensibly relates to either the further regulation of processed meat products, or the curtailing of unsolicited email, but in fact does neither.
