From: David N. Barnett 

On Sat, 15 May 2004 21:46:02 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote in message :

| But the bigger point is that we accept the measured risk of dying
everytime | we get into the car, if we begin to accept the chance of dying
by virtue of | standing next to a suicide bomber at the supermarket, then
all the BS about | the big bad Patriot Act is so much, well, BS. The idea
is to exert greater | survellieance now to nip the problem in the bud
before it becomes | commonplace, then tone it back down.

Those last five words are the kicker.  Once you give a power to the
government, they will never relinquish it.

The income tax was supposed to be temporary, wasn't it?

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