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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 23, 2005 8:48 AM
Give up your freedoms and the terrorists have won.

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QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35
I am not going to take pics of Amtrak for a while until this stuff dies down.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 23, 2005 8:38 AM
Well, the powers that be have STILL not caught the Anthrax killer yet. So everytime you see someone mail a letter, be sure to call the FBI.

Paul

QUOTE: Originally posted by AntonioFP45

FT Thunder,

I'm not criticizing you, but why is the person that called the FBI stupid?

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Posted by peterjenkinson1956 on Saturday, July 23, 2005 5:21 AM
PICTURE THIS..... Achmed whykickapaki.. sat in his home in islamabad watcing FOX TV on his sat dish and on comes... BAD BOYS,,BAD BOYS,, WHAT YOU GONNA DO ? ,,WHAT YOU GONNA DO ? WHEN THE COPS COME FOR YOU and to nights feature crims are not meth brewers or bank robbers BUT a retired couple from the midwest who just happen to park their R V within 10 miles of railroad tracks.. fbi railroad police and helicopters..as old henry was lead away from his rv to 28 years in a fed pen his last words were 'MY GOD THE BAD GUYS HAVE WON" and good old achmed nearly chokes on his curried mutton as he laughs..........ps why didnt you just hang up on the cop,,why explain yourself..YOU ARE INOCENT...PETER
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Posted by Paul3 on Friday, July 22, 2005 10:55 PM
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QUOTE: I'm looking at the post you refer to and I can't find where I said this was a correct path. I also cannot find a post under my authorship where I favor locking up innocent civilians. Can you point out where I may have said that or elude to such activities? What I am pointing out is how the outside world, unaware of fans and railroading at large, look at the photography of trains, nothing more.


Where I got the WWII reference in your post was from the following:

I agree with Antonio. At this point the law enforcement people are not going to lay back on anything. They don't care if it's a Dash-anything that you need a picture of. People are upset. The law has to do its job. There was a shooting in the London Subway this morning. During WWII you weren't going up to Horseshoe Curve to get pics either.

You were equating a WWII practice of denying civil rights to photographers to modern day restrictions and seemingly in a positive way. My point was just because it was done in WWII didn't make it right as there were many things done in the name of "security" during WWII that were immoral and wrong, one of which were the Asian-American concentration camps.

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QUOTE: The retrenching of our civil liberties after 9/11 is far from original in our country's history. I am not saying that makes it right. Many of the aforementioned historical retrenchments of American civil liberties are an absolute opprobrium. Nonetheless, I think the contention that we wont get them back when the danger has clearly passed is a rather facile and unsupported claim.


There's only one problem. Who said there will ever be an end to this "war"? Seriously. The only way to really stop it is for the West to surrender & accede to the terrorists' demands, and we sure ain't gonna do that. Or, the terrorists could all have a sudden change of heart, and decide to live and let live (and I don't think they are going to do that, either). So what does that leave us? In an endless war where there are no victories, only casualties.

The probable result will be the continuing erosion of our civil rights as the citizens of the West demand security over all else. And the only way to try to deliver that is to turn the West into a police state not unlike "1984". Hey, the tighter the security, the safer you are, right?

I agree that if the current "emergency" were to end tomorrow, and the terrorists all gave up and went home forever, that a lot of the new restrictions on our rights would go away. But can anyone honestly say that they think it's gonna happen? I don't...

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QUOTE: Nobody said we had to like it, we just gotta do it. NO ONE DESERVES TO DIE BY THE HAND OF ANOTHER. We are at war and must accept the conditions that go along with it. Really we have little choice, if you are doing nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about.


Are you serious? "The innocent have nothing to fear." (didn't they say that during the Salem witch trials?) Do you know how many innocent people are in jail in this country for crimes they did not commit? I don't, but jeez, it seems that I'm continuing to read in the paper about how some guy was released from prison after X years because DNA evidence proved he didn't do the crime. Then there was the "child abuse" scares in the mid 1980's, where dozens of innocent people were jailed, some for more than a decade, because of prosecuter misconduct while interrogating children. Then there's the aforementioned WWII concentration camps we ran... Sorry, but just "doing nothing" doesn't ensure your freedom (and probably never has).

Finally, for my own little comment about this whole situation, I think a simple snippet about the Metra incident a while back (you know, the one that made Trains mag?) rather illuminates where my worries come from. When the police were questioning the two photographers, one of the cops said that the new anti-terrorist law "superceded the Constitution".

I'm still stunned over that one.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 10:27 PM
Continue to take your Photo's.
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Posted by coborn35 on Friday, July 22, 2005 10:22 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan

Not just that; I remembered that Walker guy who went to Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban and he wasn't middle-eastern decent.

And he came back with his head in a sack.
I am not going to take pics of Amtrak for a while until this stuff dies down.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 8:52 PM
Okay, I think we need to take a little breather here.

You were taking pictures from public property. This is both legal and constitutional.

Someone thought you looked suspicious, so they reported you. This is both legal and constitutinal (though somebody really ought to talk to him or her about hobbies like ours).

An agent from the FBI called you. This is both legal and constitutional.

The FBI agent asked to see your photographs. This is both legal and constitutional. If he were not an FBI agent, but he asked to see your photographs (maybe if he was a railfan too), you wouldn't hesitate to show him your great new pictures of an ex-Conrail GE-8-40C or something.

You agreed to show him your pictures, which is legal and constitutional, and the right choice. After all, if you said no, if he wanted to see them, he might get a warrant (whether he'd get it is debatable), and you would be sharing your photographs under less friendly circumstances. Don't blame him for being obtrusive--you surrendered your right to the privacy of your photographs voluntarily, he was just doing his job.

Remember, that for all the bad press it gets, the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and so forth, are there to help you. Did a con-scheme in the Bahamas buy arms with money you sent them for humanitarian aid? You go to one of these guys. Did a bank get held up? The FBI is on it.

If he told you that you couldn't watch trains ever again, then we have problems, but, at least this far, though it might rub you the wrong way, everything that has happened is legal and constitutional.

Do we sometimes get ordered away from tracks in violation of our rights? Yes, but this isn't one of those cases. When you talk with him, check his ID (Dan is right, if it is an imposter, then we have an actual PROBLEM), cooperate, and next time, he will probably realize that the guy with scanner, timetable, and camera by the tracks is just another foamer.

Do be sure to point out that railfans will be the first members of the public to recognize if something is wrong (we see smoking traction motors, shifted loads, stuff like that).

Sincerely,
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 8:33 PM
About 15 years ago (I think) coin collectors had passed on their behalf in Washington a federal Hobby Restoration Act that let them do things like coin and collect legitimate copies of rare coins (so indicated by a tiny stamped "COPY" in certain places on the coin).

Maybe we need a Rail Transportation and Photography Restoration Act. If someone has brought this up before, please forgive me as my machine is giving me fits tonite.
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Posted by Randy Stahl on Friday, July 22, 2005 8:11 PM
Nobody said we had to like it, we just gotta do it. NO ONE DESERVES TO DIE BY THE HAND OF ANOTHER. We are at war and must accept the conditions that go along with it. Really we have little choice, if you are doing nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about. At least my home town isn't a *** battle field.
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Posted by gacuster on Friday, July 22, 2005 7:54 PM
Those who surrender liberty for perceived safety in the end will have neither liberty or safety-Benjamin Franklin.
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Posted by robscaboose on Friday, July 22, 2005 7:30 PM
The agent was very nice, just doing his job. I asked him when & where I took those pictures, as I went to Syrcause NY for a family reunion & railfanned all the way back home. He didn't have his notes which him so he could not answer that question.

I am going to bring my Trains & Railpace mag's to show him that this is my hobby & alot of other people like to watch & take pics of trains.

Hopefully I can post something tomorrow night

I guess if Elvis can have FBI file then so can I

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Posted by dinwitty on Friday, July 22, 2005 7:26 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jsoderq

Actually terrorists do take pictures of their targets. There were many pictures of New York found after 9/11.


they plan their attack very carefully, they will look like your normal person,
not wearing battle fatigues.

don't blame the authorities for being extra careful.

just show them your hobby interest and why, and settle their concerns.

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Posted by starwardude on Friday, July 22, 2005 6:51 PM
2-3 years ago, my dad his friend ( who works for the MTA yard/ Maint. facility in New Haven) and I went to the Metro North facility in New Haven, and as we left we were stopped by both the Amtrak police ( I know this because they had US Government licence plates[ with the first initials GG1; how ironic[B)]]) and the New Haven police. Had my Dad's friend not been there, we'd have gotten into a big pile of legal nastiness.
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Posted by CSXrules4eva on Friday, July 22, 2005 5:30 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by trainjunky29

I'm still wondering though, how did the person who reported you to the FBI know who you are?


The government knows everything, trust me I know. My grandmom worked for the IRS for 35 years. She told me things. Like how to cheat on my taxes. J/k lol WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
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Posted by bobwilcox on Friday, July 22, 2005 5:24 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

OK, I probably shouldn't, but here is my two cents:

I am not saying this makes the erosion of civil liberties the correct or incorrect course of action. But, as to the claim that we will not get our liberties back once the danger passes, a close look at our nation's history repeatedly indicates that, during times of crisis, our civil liberties are constrained and, as soon as the crisis is over, the liberties are returned and everyone criticizes the decision to take them away.

Go back as far as 1798 with the Alien and Sedition Acts of the Adams’ Administration. During times when war with France and Napoleon seemed eminent, a variety of laws were passed that not only substantially reduced civil liberties but were actually designed to hamper the formation of Jeffersonian Republicanism (the taboo of taboos in terms of civil liberties). As soon as Napoleon was defeated (his first defeat, where he was exiled to Elbe) the Acts were revoked.

During the War of 1812, marshal law was actually declared in parts of America. After the war, things returned to normal.

In the Civil War (and more particularly during Reconstruction) habeas corpus was suspended and a Republican-dominated Congress almost wrote the Presidency and the Supreme Court out of existence. After reconstruction, things were back to normal.

Does anyone remember the first—and more severe—“Red Scare.” This was probably one of the most severe restrictions of civil liberties in our history. What exactly was Debs guilty of when he ran for the Presidency from behind bars? However, once it became clear that the Bolshevik Revolution was confined to Russia, the 1920s roared.

During WWII, there was this shameful incident of American concentration camps. Very soon after the war, Americans were ashamed of this act and vowed not to do them again. I also seem to remember a prohibition against talking pictures of trains.

Post WWII, J.E. Hoover—when he wasn't wearing women's dresses—engaged in one of the most systematic illegal government surveillance of American citizens in this country's history (maybe he just had a bee in his bonnet).

The retrenching of our civil liberties after 9/11 is far from original in our country's history. I am not saying that makes it right. Many of the aforementioned historical retrenchments of American civil liberties are an absolute opprobrium. Nonetheless, I think the contention that we wont get them back when the danger has clearly passed is a rather facile and unsupported claim.

Now, if you want to talk about the opened-ended/secretive nature of the Patriot Act, the considerable discretion given to on-the-ground officials who enforce the Act, and the potentials for abuse of this power, you might get a different tenor out of me.

Gabe


This is a cogent essay on one reason why wars we enter should be ended as quickly as our security allows. Then we can put the ACLU back in the closet for the next one.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 5:19 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

QUOTE: Originally posted by artmark

QUOTE: Originally posted by Paul3

artmark & dthurman,
Just because there were security concerns in WWII does not mean that we should follow the exact same path all over again.

Remember that during WWII thousands of innocent US civilians were immorally incarcerated in the middle of nowhere just because they were Asian and on the west coast. Using your logic, should we not lock up all Middle-Eastern US civilians? After all, if it worked for WWII...right?

You know what scares me more than any terrorist is my fellow citizens who see nothing wrong with trampling over hard-won rights to keep us all "safe". Bah!

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I'm looking at the post you refer to and I can't find where I said this was a correct path. I also cannot find a post under my authorship where I favor locking up innocent civilians. Can you point out where I may have said that or elude to such activities? What I am pointing out is how the outside world, unaware of fans and railroading at large, look at the photography of trains, nothing more.

I further agree with CSS's assesments that bit by bit our rights are eroding. I'm not convinced that they'll return once things quiet down.

Mitch


OK, I probably shouldn't, but here is my two cents:

I am not saying this makes the erosion of civil liberties the correct or incorrect course of action. But, as to the claim that we will not get our liberties back once the danger passes, a close look at our nation's history repeatedly indicates that, during times of crisis, our civil liberties are constrained and, as soon as the crisis is over, the liberties are returned and everyone criticizes the decision to take them away.

Go back as far as 1798 with the Alien and Sedition Acts of the Adams’ Administration. During times when war with France and Napoleon seemed eminent, a variety of laws were passed that not only substantially reduced civil liberties but were actually designed to hamper the formation of Jeffersonian Republicanism (the taboo of taboos in terms of civil liberties). As soon as Napoleon was defeated (his first defeat, where he was exiled to Elbe) the Acts were revoked.

During the War of 1812, marshal law was actually declared in parts of America. After the war, things returned to normal.

In the Civil War (and more particularly during Reconstruction) habeas corpus was suspended and a Republican-dominated Congress almost wrote the Presidency and the Supreme Court out of existence. After reconstruction, things were back to normal.

Does anyone remember the first—and more severe—“Red Scare.” This was probably one of the most severe restrictions of civil liberties in our history. What exactly was Debs guilty of when he ran for the Presidency from behind bars? However, once it became clear that the Bolshevik Revolution was confined to Russia, the 1920s roared.

During WWII, there was this shameful incident of American concentration camps. Very soon after the war, Americans were ashamed of this act and vowed not to do them again. I also seem to remember a prohibition against talking pictures of trains.

Post WWII, J.E. Hoover—when he wasn't wearing women's dresses—engaged in one of the most systematic illegal government surveillance of American citizens in this country's history (maybe he just had a bee in his bonnet).

The retrenching of our civil liberties after 9/11 is far from original in our country's history. I am not saying that makes it right. Many of the aforementioned historical retrenchments of American civil liberties are an absolute opprobrium. Nonetheless, I think the contention that we wont get them back when the danger has clearly passed is a rather facile and unsupported claim.

Now, if you want to talk about the opened-ended/secretive nature of the Patriot Act, the considerable discretion given to on-the-ground officials who enforce the Act, and the potentials for abuse of this power, you might get a different tenor out of me.

Gabe


Thank you Gabe, I could never articulate that as well as you did, and that was my point I was trying to make. I think we need a person in authority to make a lst word on if we can or can't photograph railroad related items or any image from public property.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 5:14 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by trainman2244

Ok guys, 9/11 and starting a war is a crock of *** if ive ever seen it. roughly 2000 people died, and according to the goverment there is a death every 13 seconds, so,
in that case 4 people die each minute, and 3120 people die each hour, and in that case, 74880 people die each day. 9/11 doesnt sound so horrible now, does it? (BTW: i was roughly rounding)


Hmm, sad way to write off 2000+ US citizens killed by a fanatical group bent on our erasure.
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Posted by ALCOC415 on Friday, July 22, 2005 3:31 PM
Rob is a very good friend of mine. He worked part time for me when I worked for the EFRR and helped repaint the switcher there. He told me that he was taking pics when a police officer came up to him and asked for his drivers license and had to run it through homeland secruity. I am guessing that is how the FBI got involved. The FBI agent has also been out to the museum we volunteer at so he may even make a day of it.
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Posted by jimrice4449 on Friday, July 22, 2005 3:24 PM
trainjunky29 has stumbled onto the point! (ouch?) I think we have a trol here. He would have us believe that he was innocently photographing Amtrak and then, after arriving home is contacted by phone by an FBI agent who magically(?) knows who he is, where he was, and what he was doing. It must be that microchip that the evil Nixon administration had implanted in all infants born in the 70s!
We are to believe that the FBI will kindly inform a suspect by phone of their interest?
Let's get real here.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 3:24 PM
The govern8ors know all. You are obsolete and must be destroyed. hehehe sounds quite like the executoids at CN and UP[:p]
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 2:57 PM
I'm still wondering though, how did the person who reported you to the FBI know who you are?
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 2:52 PM
Seems like to me that we have become more and more paranoid about things in the U.S. ever since 911. We have a fear of trusting anyone and don't want to trust everyone. This "homeland security" hasn't helped things any either ;although my family slept much better at night when Martha was in prison. ha ha

I think railfanning can still be accomplished just not at the same level as what we were used to. If a camera is going to questionable to use, then I would try to find somewhere else for photography work. Also if approached by someone in law enforcement, being polite and following a request to move along will be more accepted than an argument. Even though they may have a different interpretation if the law, they are still wearing the uniform.

I wouldn't want to go to DFW, LAX, or KCI with a camera to photograph airport activity and explain to someone what I was doing.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 2:46 PM
well what it all boils down to is something that's been going on since the beginning of time and/or the dawn of religion. nobody knows how to get along, they have never got along and never will.

now that politics have gotten involved, spearheaded by someone who forgot how to ride a bike (how's that for inspiration) it's only going to get worse.

point is trainman, is that it was an attack on U.S. soil by a foreigner. the only problem is that the foreigner isn't tied to one particular country, he's just of a different race/religion. it's not as cut and dry as it was in WWII....japan and germany, blow 'em out of the water.

i really wish some people would sit back and absorb some facts and THEN make a semi-clear statement based upon those facts rather than fly off the handle at the first whisper of a rumor.
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Posted by gabe on Friday, July 22, 2005 2:46 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jarubel

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

QUOTE: Originally posted by jarubel

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainman2244

Ok guys, 9/11 and starting a war is a crock of *** if ive ever seen it. roughly 2000 people died, and according to the goverment there is a death every 13 seconds, so,
in that case 4 people die each minute, and 3120 people die each hour, and in that case, 74880 people die each day. 9/11 doesnt sound so horrible now, does it? (BTW: i was roughly rounding)
Just for the sake of nitpicking, if 4 people die each minute, wouldn't that mean 240 people every hour and not 3120?


240 or 3120, what is the difference? After all, it is only innocent human life we are talking about.
I'm not trying to trivialize or make light of the loss of innocent human lives. Just trying to get the facts straight. I didn't want to get into an arugement here. Personally I think the loss of 2000 lives in an act of terrorism is a tragic event. I also think any life lost is a terrible thing wether it be through terrorism accident or natural causes


Sorry if you thought my sarcasm was directed at you; it wasn't. You weren't the one trivializing 2000 deaths.

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Posted by edblysard on Friday, July 22, 2005 2:46 PM
Lets see,
2000 plus people burning to death, or being crushed in a fall of several thousand feet as tons upon tons of the World Trade Center crashes down on them, or facing certain death as they force the aircraft that they are held hostage in to crash in a field...along with the service men and woman and the civilian personnel at the Pentagon who burned to death in a spray of jet fuel....

Yup, sounds pretty horrible to me...someone said they have found the oxymoron here, but I think we all know who the plain ole moron is.

Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by trainman2244

Ok guys, 9/11 and starting a war is a crock of *** if ive ever seen it. roughly 2000 people died, and according to the goverment there is a death every 13 seconds, so,
in that case 4 people die each minute, and 3120 people die each hour, and in that case, 74880 people die each day. 9/11 doesnt sound so horrible now, does it? (BTW: i was roughly rounding)

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Posted by gabe on Friday, July 22, 2005 2:44 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by artmark

QUOTE: Originally posted by Paul3

artmark & dthurman,
Just because there were security concerns in WWII does not mean that we should follow the exact same path all over again.

Remember that during WWII thousands of innocent US civilians were immorally incarcerated in the middle of nowhere just because they were Asian and on the west coast. Using your logic, should we not lock up all Middle-Eastern US civilians? After all, if it worked for WWII...right?

You know what scares me more than any terrorist is my fellow citizens who see nothing wrong with trampling over hard-won rights to keep us all "safe". Bah!

Paul A. Cutler III
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I'm looking at the post you refer to and I can't find where I said this was a correct path. I also cannot find a post under my authorship where I favor locking up innocent civilians. Can you point out where I may have said that or elude to such activities? What I am pointing out is how the outside world, unaware of fans and railroading at large, look at the photography of trains, nothing more.

I further agree with CSS's assesments that bit by bit our rights are eroding. I'm not convinced that they'll return once things quiet down.

Mitch


OK, I probably shouldn't, but here is my two cents:

I am not saying this makes the erosion of civil liberties the correct or incorrect course of action. But, as to the claim that we will not get our liberties back once the danger passes, a close look at our nation's history repeatedly indicates that, during times of crisis, our civil liberties are constrained and, as soon as the crisis is over, the liberties are returned and everyone criticizes the decision to take them away.

Go back as far as 1798 with the Alien and Sedition Acts of the Adams’ Administration. During times when war with France and Napoleon seemed eminent, a variety of laws were passed that not only substantially reduced civil liberties but were actually designed to hamper the formation of Jeffersonian Republicanism (the taboo of taboos in terms of civil liberties). As soon as Napoleon was defeated (his first defeat, where he was exiled to Elbe) the Acts were revoked.

During the War of 1812, marshal law was actually declared in parts of America. After the war, things returned to normal.

In the Civil War (and more particularly during Reconstruction) habeas corpus was suspended and a Republican-dominated Congress almost wrote the Presidency and the Supreme Court out of existence. After reconstruction, things were back to normal.

Does anyone remember the first—and more severe—“Red Scare.” This was probably one of the most severe restrictions of civil liberties in our history. What exactly was Debs guilty of when he ran for the Presidency from behind bars? However, once it became clear that the Bolshevik Revolution was confined to Russia, the 1920s roared.

During WWII, there was this shameful incident of American concentration camps. Very soon after the war, Americans were ashamed of this act and vowed not to do them again. I also seem to remember a prohibition against talking pictures of trains.

Post WWII, J.E. Hoover—when he wasn't wearing women's dresses—engaged in one of the most systematic illegal government surveillance of American citizens in this country's history (maybe he just had a bee in his bonnet).

The retrenching of our civil liberties after 9/11 is far from original in our country's history. I am not saying that makes it right. Many of the aforementioned historical retrenchments of American civil liberties are an absolute opprobrium. Nonetheless, I think the contention that we wont get them back when the danger has clearly passed is a rather facile and unsupported claim.

Now, if you want to talk about the opened-ended/secretive nature of the Patriot Act, the considerable discretion given to on-the-ground officials who enforce the Act, and the potentials for abuse of this power, you might get a different tenor out of me.

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Posted by dharmon on Friday, July 22, 2005 2:31 PM
Attrition is good. However that route probably won't achieve the desired results.
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Posted by cpbloom on Friday, July 22, 2005 2:31 PM
God forbid someone questions us when we haven't done anything wrong just because we look "suspicious".

Its funny to me everytime this comes up when some of us have been putting up with that type of stuff all along (and I'm not even talking about railfans).
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 2:30 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

QUOTE: Originally posted by jarubel

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainman2244

Ok guys, 9/11 and starting a war is a crock of *** if ive ever seen it. roughly 2000 people died, and according to the goverment there is a death every 13 seconds, so,
in that case 4 people die each minute, and 3120 people die each hour, and in that case, 74880 people die each day. 9/11 doesnt sound so horrible now, does it? (BTW: i was roughly rounding)
Just for the sake of nitpicking, if 4 people die each minute, wouldn't that mean 240 people every hour and not 3120?


240 or 3120, what is the difference? After all, it is only innocent human life we are talking about.
I'm not trying to trivialize or make light of the loss of innocent human lives. Just trying to get the facts straight. I didn't want to get into an arugement here. Personally I think the loss of 2000 lives in an act of terrorism is a tragic event. I also think any life lost is a terrible thing wether it be through terrorism accident or natural causes

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