once again, he's using scare tactics to achieve what he wants. i call that bullying. but others may call just call it politics as usual.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - President Bush on Thursday credited the Patriot Act with helping to convict more than 200 terrorists and dismissed accusations that the law has violated civil liberties.
Bush described scary scenarios that he said were thwarted by law enforcement and intelligence officers working together with powers granted by the law he signed six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Bush used the examples to pressure Congress to make permanent the provisions of the law that would otherwise expire at the end of the year. But he faces oppositions from civil libertarians who tell their own stories of law-abiding citizens dogged by secret probing of their private affairs.
and that's what is wrong with this country. scaring the population as a "normal" way of getting something done is pathetic. it's how the nazi regime came to be in power.
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