Overblown fears about the Patriot Act
Jeff Jacoby:
"Strangely omitted from much of the anti-Patriot Act vehemence is any mention of 9/11. That is understandable: Ignore the context in which the law was enacted, and it becomes easier to demonize it as a freedom-menacing, privacy-stripping assault by Big Brother. But the Patriot Act wasn't passed in a vacuum. It came in the wake of a horrendous attack by foreign enemies who had been hiding within our borders. 9/11 awakened many Americans to the fact that we are at war with a fanatical enemy -- an enemy that will go on slaughtering civilians unless it is rooted out and destroyed."True Mr. J. However, we must be sure to root 'em out while maintaining freedom. Otherwise our fanatical enemy wins.
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