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Originally posted by Gattigap
S'matter, you lefty? Got anything to hide?
Americans don't care. We don't care. The Administration will do what it thinks necessary to maximize security against the terrorist horde. If it's not "permitted" by "laws" protecting "civil liberties" of Americans, well, then so be it.
And Americans will applaud.
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I watched an old episode of Miami Vice a couple of weeks ago. (they're being rerun on TVLand). The basic plot was that some IRA guy was trying to buy arms in Miami, and someone from Scotland Yard was pursuing him with the help of Crockett and Tubbs.
At some point, the Yard guy says "why don't we just go bring him in--we know he's bad" And Crockett responds "that's not the way we do things in America". And the Yard guy responds back "well, see how America feels when women and children are getting blown up on the streets and in shopping malls."
Anyway, I digress. But it was prescient in 1986.
