"m II" wrote in message
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RHF wrote:

After reading it; and gaining a better understanding of the
'Enabling Act' one has to conclude that the "Patriot Act"
does not have the intent or force of law as the 'Enabling Act'.
To claim such is simply a LIE [.]


We have the benefit of hindsight in the case of Germany. The
collective
noses are too close to the Patriot Act to see clearly what it
encompasses. In twenty years we'll have a better view of what it
did.
That's if history is still permitted to be read.


Well, that's true, but it overlooks at least one salient fact.
Portions of the Patriot Act have -already- failed to survive our
system of checks and balances (i.e., court challenges), something that
I don't believe was ever true in pre-war Germany.