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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Meanwhile, the US Patriot act enacts significant authority to spy on US citizens, in their libraries, through wiretaps, and so forth.
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See above. There's really been no change.
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Or shall we talk about efforts to federalize limitations on civil liberties that states have sought fit to enact: medical marijuana use in California; a "right" to die in Oregon and elsewhere; homosexual "marriage" in Vermont and (potentially elsewhere); abortion anywhere.
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MedPot represents an attempt to expand liberties by fed-countervailing statute, not a narrowing. The "right" to die? Another attempt to expand (although granny might argue with the assertion that this makes her more free.) Homosexual marriage, again, is an expansion. As for the abortion mess, you blame this on Ashcroft? This is a basic tenet of the R party.
