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Originally Posted by malvachat
Now as Sinner quite rightly points out,losing some freedoms might be sensible to combat terrorists.
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no, it's not, mal - as the man says (Ben Franklin, i think), give up your freedom to get security and you will ultimately get neither.
in particular, the modern "conservative" (and i use the term loosely) chooses to ignore and/or distort the wiretapping issue completely: the issue is not whether we should eavesdrop on terrorists (of course we should), but rather that the government should adhere to the mechanism to legally do so, in order to assure that this power is not abused.