Word: patriots
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...terror. Bush will denounce the idea of a precipitous withdrawal but will argue, yet again, that as the Iraqi army gathers strength, the American presence will slowly but steadily be reduced. Republican allies of the President tell TIME Bush will call on Congress to renew the USA Patriot Act, which is due to expire soon. Bush allies believe this could be one of the most politically effective, galvinizing moments of the speech, leaving Democrats who have been wary of renewing portions of the act looking less than vigorous in the effort to combat terrorism...
...keep the long arm of Big Brotherly law from reaching into our Houses, classrooms, and libraries.To their credit, people like Director of the University Library Sidney Verba and Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey have spoken out this semester against the provisions of the PATRIOT Act that let the feds obtain library and other student records on demand.But Mass. Hall has been mum on other intrusive programs like the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), which keeps close tabs on international students, and the Pentagon database recently revealed to be tracking millions of people at colleges nationwide.On...
...Terror is a war against that experience, launched, as Bush put it, because ?the most solemn duty of government, is to protect our people from harm.? Protecting at all costs against the next attack is what leads to the Patriot Act, and debates over what counts as torture, and over the proper bounds of domestic spying by the NSA, and all the other constraints on civil liberties that have people itching about the costs of this fight...
...still has the burn marks, he suggests, from an earlier excess of scruple. ?At one point in time the government got accused of not connecting the dots.? He recalled the debates over intelligence failures after 9/11. ?And all of a sudden, we start connecting the dots through the Patriot Act and the NSA decision, and we're being criticized...
...left many disappointed with the two major political parties: the parties’ ideologies leave no room for people to form separate opinions on each policy issue.Harvard students vary in their political opinions as much as Harvard and Yale vary in their skills at playing football. Social security, the Patriot Act, tax cuts, affirmative action, gay marriage, drug prohibition deregulation, eminent domain, free trade: each student has an independent answer to each of these questions. Nonetheless, the two-party system forces people to pick one of two package deals of nonsensical and often contradictory opinions. If you favor gay marriage...