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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attorney-general-eric-holders-blunt-warning-terror-attacks/story?id=12444727&tqkw=&tqshow=GMA&tqkw=&tqshow=GMA>
Well, if that isn't a strong argument for emasculating the Patriot Act I don' know what is.
>and you might want to avoid salad bars and buffets:
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/20/eveningnews/main7169266.shtmlBut aren't there Federal FDA regulations against contaminating food? Surely government regulations will protect us. (though I am going to worry about people sprinkling alleged bad substances into food supplies may be unfairly profiled as "terrorists" )
At least am comforted to know that with all these alleged "threats" there is at least one man - AG Eric Holder - who will prevent witch hunts and profiling and will zealously guard the rights of differently-Allegianced* Americans.
* I believe this is now the correct term in the style manuals for Reuters and NYT
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
