Easy, guy. The US Supreme Court hasn't so much as addressed any part of USA PATRIOT. No case has gotten that far, though the Hamid and Padilla cases are on their way. Furthermore, he's coming the UK, Land of Surveillance. A country where the government proudly puts up scary, Orwellian posters about this fact.
Speaking as a civil liberties freak, the possibility that the FBI might get the insane idea that he's a terrorist and tap his phone strikes me as a far lesser invasion of his privacy.
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Date: 2003-01-13 05:24 pm (UTC)Easy, guy. The US Supreme Court hasn't so much as addressed any part of USA PATRIOT. No case has gotten that far, though the Hamid and Padilla cases are on their way. Furthermore, he's coming the UK, Land of Surveillance. A country where the government proudly puts up scary, Orwellian posters about this fact.
Speaking as a civil liberties freak, the possibility that the FBI might get the insane idea that he's a terrorist and tap his phone strikes me as a far lesser invasion of his privacy.