Comments on: Nuclear Engineer at Cern Lab Arrested For Ties to Al Qaeda

By: Eclectic Radical

Eclectic Radical — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:01:13 +0000

‘Funny statement from a citizen from the western country which institutionalized the worst citizen spying laws, such as your famous infamous Patriot Act.’

Actually, the worst citizen spying laws in a Western nation are probably in France, where ‘espionage’ and ‘terrorist’ laws have been on the books since the 1970s that allow the Surete to pretty much ignore due process all together. Some of the Patriot Act was specifically modelled on the French terrorism laws. And conservatives say there is nothing to learn from Europe.

And as Ron says, quite a lot of us were against the Patriot Act. It’s why Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and Mike Gravel made the Patriot Act central to their presidential primary campaigns and why Bob Barr (who wrote the thing, ironically) made it central to his campaign in the general election.

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:37:14 +0000

Many of us here also opposed such items in the Patriot Act.

By: What

What — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:38:04 +0000

Funny statement from a citizen from the western country which institutionalized the worst citizen spying laws, such as your famous infamous Patriot Act.

By: Les Hare

Les Hare — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:52:32 +0000

Guess we’d better start looking for WMDs in Algeria, huh? Fighting them over there, and all that…