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Old Nov 4, 2011 | 2:29 pm
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Originally Posted by Daggett76
Agreed. It confounds me that the Patriot Act still gets extended term after term without much discussion.
It's because in the event of any kind of attack on domestic soil, no politician wants to be accused of being "soft on terrorism". The majority of people in this country are in the "anything for security" crowd.
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