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Re: Patriot Act Fix Just a Beginning (none / 0) (#4)
by Pete Guither on Sun Apr 10, 2005 at 09:31:04 AM EST
Tristero, As always, it depends on who calls themselves libertarians. The Libertarian Party has called for the repeal of the Patriot Act. As far as the small-l libertarians... Liberal libertarians and those who align partially with libertarian principles based on a strong belief in the Bill of Rights are strong opposed to the Patriot Act. The problem comes for the, as you said, so-called libertarians who have historically aligned themselves with the right and paid lip service to the principles of limited government, fiscal restraint, individual responsibility, and states' rights. They are having to go through some massive self-delusion to keep up the right wing libertarian pretense these days. They have bought into the fear-based terrorism response so heavily that they support the Patriot Act, but will claim that there's nothing really controversial in it (and that we're over-reacting). They'll say that it's really only technical adjustments to bring terrorism-fighting efforts into line with other law enforcement tools already in existence, and nothing new. (But they won't want a point-by-point analysis of it in Congress.)

Patriot Act Fix Just a Beginning | 7 comments (7 topical)

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