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...Desert Storm air campaign blasted Iraqi defenses in Kuwait, Bush flew to Andover, Mass., for a rally at the Raytheon plant, which manufactured the Patriot Air Defense System. In the middle of a rousing speech, he noted, almost as an aside, "There's another way for the bloodshed to stop, and this is for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside...
Instead of cataloguing books, many librarians now spend much of their day shredding business records so that the government can’t get its hands on them. These librarians are protesting the PATRIOT Act, a consortium of legislation passed after the Sept. 11 attacks, which has enlarged the federal government’s powers in the fight against terrorism. The powers granted by the PATRIOT Act are set to expire in 2005. But if Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, gets his way, protesting librarians may have much shredding ahead of them...
Backed by other Republicans, Hatch authored a proposal to repeal the PATRIOT Act’s 2005 sunset, or expiration date, making the legislation permanent...
...larger, more popular anti-terror bill that aides the government in catching ‘lone-wolf’ terrorists. Attaching a controversial rider to an otherwise constructive bill is shameful. In using this method, Hatch is not allowing for a full and fair debate of the PATRIOT...
Debate would help to illuminate the PATRIOT Act’s extensive liberty-limiting provisions. Under it, the government can more easily eavesdrop and access records of American citizens. Hatch’s zeal to quietly pass this proposal as a rider reveals a disturbing eagerness to reduce civil liberties...