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more on Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts >:o >:o
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:26:32 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: TClaburn () cmp com Date: December 16, 2005 4:20:40 PM EST To: dave () farber net Cc: NMunro () nationaljournal comSubject: Re: [IP] more on Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts >:o >:o
But the chief problem, which the NYT article does not highlight, is that AL-Q has chosen to blur the lines between civilian and military, law and war, criminal and innocuous. They buy tickets on our airplanes, use ourphone lines, hide behind our laws, hire our lawyers, locate themselves to shelter under the protection of our legal regime, and cite our prisoner-protection rules, etc.
That sounds a lot like organized crime. We've managed to deal with that reasonably well over the years without contravening the Constitution.
Some have suggested that the least-painful solution to this dilemma would be to drain the terrorist swamp in the Middle East, rather than writing more and more intrusive and uncertain rules to regulate an high-stakes hunt around the world for terrorists.
Are we draining the swamp or, apologies to David Bowie, putting out the fire
with gasoline? Argument by metaphor obscures the complexity of the situation in Iraq.If laws like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act need to be changed to deal with terrorism, change them lawfully rather than skirting them in secret.
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