Teribus:

The issue we raise is not that some imaginary sky is falling, and it is inaccurate to characterize it as such.

The problem is not the sky; it is the erosion of checks and balances. For example, the authority of police or other law-enforcements to define for themselves when someone is a suspect, grant themselves warrant and determine for themselve what their rights of seizure are is a new low from the point of view of citizen security. Sourely you can see this. It may not seem a threat because of the context in which you place it -- during a war against an unspecified enemy, and exercised by an agency you perhaps trust (the FBI).

I hope your confidence is well-placed, but hope is a piss-poor strategy.

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