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The House and Senate have both passed an anti-terrorism bill that effectively curtails liberties in the name of fighting terrorism. Only in the state of war can such crap get passed by normally semi-sane congressmen. Someday we'll look back on this and wonder how the heck stuff like this could have ever gotten past, similiar to the way we look at the McCarthy era of the 1950's now.
And speaking of how history will look back on all of this, book publishers have an interesting problem of how to discuss these events before their publishing date is due. Obviously not all the facts are in, nor how all of this will factor in with future wars or events, so it's hard to talk about it in history books. It is sorta weird to think that this stuff will be forever written and remembered by generations after us.
The ACLU has compiled a nice chart outlining all the different anti-terrorism/anti-freedom bills that are being considered in Congress. It's a great read and some of the stuff that is proposed in these bills is truly frightening. Unfortunatly it's a little outdated now since one of the bills has already been passed, but it's still worth taking a look at.
And finally, in great Onion fashion, they've written an article entitled Freedoms Curtailed in Defense of Liberty. It basically sounds a whole lot like I had written on here, where people were being denied freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism.
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