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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 157820" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>The odd thing is that, as I understand it, this is a renewal of a request for data that has been in place for half a decade.  I suspect the motivation behind making an issue of it now has to do with the other bits floating around in the news.  The right wants one more reason to pound the White House, the left wants to distract the populace from the bigger issues floating around the President.  As Dave said, just one more liberty we gave up in the name of "safety".  The Patriot Act was nothing but a blanket grab at personal freedoms, all but making a joke of the Bill of Rights, whether we want to still tout it or not.  There's not a lot our government can't do to any of us simply by labeling us in a way that slides us under the umbrella of the PA.  We should all lose sleep over it, if we could honestly do anything about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>