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- From: doctor1@cbnewse.cb.att.com (patrick.b.hailey)
- Subject: Re: What is United States of America like?
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:32:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.003221.4076@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
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- >Then why are conservatives still screaming tha the police had be handicapped
- >by it?
-
- Remember the 'Omnibus Anti-Crime Bill' that was in the news, oh, about
- a year ago? The 'conservatives' make such a big fuss over it not getting
- passed because of the 'liberal' forces. The liberals thought it went
- too far.
-
- Well, it also didn't get passed because a lot of conservatives refused to
- accept it because it didn't go far enough. One of the big contentions
- was that it didn't sweep away Habeus Corpus (sp?).
-
- That's right: The government can't fight crime without the right to throw
- people in jail without charge for an unlimited amount of time.
-
- These people will scream about any and all rights that are still left.
- They want the ability to 'dissapear' people, South American style. The
- drug czar talks about beheading suspects. Weopon systems are being
- designed and tested to shoot down private airplanes that won't (or can't)
- identify themselves. People suspected of swallowing drug evidence ARE
- ALREADY BEING REFUSED MEDICAL TRATMENT until they sign a confession. A
- man in Indiana died due to this (it took him all night, and he was quite
- noisy about it, and even other prisoners were begging the cops to get some
- help), and the court found no chargeable wrong doing.
-
- Of COURSE they're going to keep telling you to give up more and more of
- your rights. Of course, you seem more than willing to keep doing it.
- I'm glad things are nice in your neighborhood.
-
- Thanks awfully,
- Patrick
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