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now have a do as we please government and only one thing stands in their way - your vote. I urge you to use it wisely before you too have FBI agents knocking at your door asking why you talk so much politics at the local tavern or in a chat room.

If and when we get a new, less onerous government, we'll need some major legislative "revisions" to the Patriot Act to restore some of our privacy and civil rights. Law abiding citizens cannot be presumed to be anything but simply because they do not agree with politicians, foreign policies, or pray to a different God. In the 1970s and 80s our government used the IRS to keep Americans "in line" with "random audits" that were later exposed by Congressional investigators. Today our politicians have upgraded their tactics with the Patriot Act which just might soon prove be the greatest oxymoron in U.S. history.

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On March 17, 2006, Federal Judge James Ware in a San Jose courthouse ruled in a compromise decision that the URLs of 50,000 web sites selected by the government (mostly porn, gambling, and politically-charged web sites). The government argued that 50,000 web sites "was not enough" but in reality entitled Uncle Sam snoops to spy on some 40 million Americans whose only crime might be an urge to play a little online poker, peruse some sexy models, or see what an opposition candidate has to say about global warming or the war in Iraq.

In September of 2006, homeland security officials admitted to ABC news that a "few dozen" American citizens were wrongly placed on a "No-Fly" list because of "faulty internet surveillance".

Encouraged by the Google ruling, inside sources now say the feds have their eyes on AOL and Oracle. If citizens don't unite with a few class-action law suits and soon, Privacy will inevitably become extinct in America this decade. Indiscriminate domestic spying is simply un-American, unethical, and just plain wrong. Clip this article and send it with letters to your House and Senate representatives and ask them where they stand on this issue.

On January 3rd, 2007 President Bush signed his latest executive order which amounts to giving federal and state officials the authority to interecpt, open, and read the mail of anyone within U.S. territory including American citizens with no links to terrorism. Hello! Can you say "Gestapo"?

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