[geeks] 4th Amendment Gone

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 09:19:45PM +0000, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:33:37 +0000 (GMT), Kris Kirby wrote:
> > Some of you know me well enough to know that I don't usually involve
> > others in my politics. It pains me to see the losses we are suffering
> > every day in what we assume to be our God-given rights. I strongly
> 
> I've always thought that phrase is kind of insulting to the people who
> fought (and sometimes died) for those rights.
> 
> > encourage you to contact your congressman and let them know that this
> > sort of thing is not to be tolerated.
> > 
> > http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/032604/new_searches001.shtml
> 
> Nothing like a bit of terrorism for allowing the government to slide
> those rights a little further away from us. And no I'm not throwing
> rocks at the US ... the same thing is happening in the UK.


>From what I hear, it's happening faster in the UK than here.  My parents
and my younger sister went back to the UK last summer to celebrate my
grandmother's 90th birthday, and my dad had some very bleak stories to
tell when he came back.  He said, "The England I grew up in and loved is
dead."


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