A new provision tucked into the Patriot Act bill now before Congress would allow authorities to haul demonstrators at any "special event of national significance" away to jail on felony charges if they are caught breaching a security perimeter.Guess who the sponsor was? None other than our friend, helping us update the press and helping us amend the Patriot Act, The Honorable Arlen Specter. And I do have something better to do which I should be doing. And so I won't fix all these sentences that begin with and. And I haven't even covered "sneak and peak" and the "lone wolf provision".
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If a political machine does not allow the people free expression, then freedom-loving people lose their faith in the machinery under which their government functions (re: The Battle of Athens.) ~~~ Eleanor Roosevelt