06-18-2003, 01:01 PM
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
THE FIRST JUDICIALLY-APPROVED SECRET JAILING. I am not cynical or sarcastic. I am seriously worried. Jailing people without levelling charges??? They can do it to you, too.
Ok [img]smile.gif[/img] I was just goofing wit my first post, so here is a serious treatment...on one hand the libertarian in me says hmmm it could happen to me....on the other hand the I hate terrorists and people who associate with groups with links to terrorists says screw them. Seriously, if you are stupid enough to associate yourself in some way with one of these organizations..this is just a darwinian result.
So, I'm watching Law & Order the other night. Since my wife's a prosecutor, we tend to watch this a lot, me yelling about injustice and abuse of rights and her smiling smugly. Anywho, the FBI arrests our intrepid hero detectives. In one scene, one of them says "Charge me or let me go. I'm leaving."
The FBI agent smugly replies "No you're not, since 9/11 I can keep you 72 hours without charging you."  The use of tragedy to justify a police state? That's not the US. Not my US. And I am getting violently angry over it.
Ok ok, T.L. calm down...first off Colleen and I love Law and Order it is one fo the shows we watch...I saw that episode too and at first I got a bit PO'd then I remember that the writers are a pretty leftist/liberal bunch and then I calmed down...this is coming out of the Hollywood Mass Media machine ya know..though usually L&O isn't too bad....and it is set in a nearby city [img]smile.gif[/img]
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