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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
NOFI, but are you saying that the post-9/11 changes haven't been an assault on your personal rights/lifestyle? Or don't those changes count because you're not usually confronted with the effects (all the databases that track what you're doing, and that will store records of any travelling outside the USA for at least a decade? Or are terror threats somehow more real than global warming threats? Even if terror threats are more tangible (which is hard to argue for or against because no additional attacks happened that were unambiguously prevented because of the constant fearmongering), they sure cost you a heck of a lot by way of taxation. Only G.W. said you didn't have to pay them yet, as war costs are just as easily put on a credit card as personal expenditures.
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Yes, they have, but the "War On Drugs" changes have been worse since the early 1970's. No knock search, money tracking laws, denial of money for legal counsel, seizure of assets without trial....Actually the "War On Terror" has added less than the "War On Drugs".