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SnoMan wrote:

I now need a passport to go to Canada

I believe you need a passport to RETURN to USA from Canada. If you really
need one to ENTER Canada, your issue is with them.

I have never been to Canada. However, when the time finally comes that I wish
to go, I'll have to get a passport. How draconian can it get?

there is a lot of silence about how much improper snooping and
eves dropping that has been done on John Q Public last several years.

Yes, the silence is "deafening". I'm sure the New York Times is as frustrated
as you that it is increasingly difficult to reveal national secrets and
security operations.

How many people have been barred from flying
because they haver same name

None. (Zip, zero, nada.)

air marshalls on flights but they stopped them under reagan.

Ah, HA!! I always suspected he did more than just sleep and eat jelly beans.
....those RASCALLY Republicans!

I have never seen such secracy in government as today.

Ignoring the obvious (just what DOES "secrecy" LOOK like?), do you suppose it
could be due to the fact that we're at war?

I can just envision the New York Times headline, dated June 4, 1944:
"Invasion Tomorrow at Normandy". Subhead: "Calais Just a Ruse". The next
day's headline would read, "Weather Delays Invasion, Now Set For Tomorrow".

Curretn adm9in used fear to get there way

Yep, they did it ALONE while 435 members of Congress were out to lunch.

fortunately the game is about over now.

Yeah, then we can all relax, bring home the troops (invalidating the ultimate
sacrifice by their fallen comrades) and wait for the next attack. What a
plan. sigh

(The Patriot act should have never been passed

With the word "patriot" in it, I'm surprised it was.

and would never been passed today. )

Agreed, considering MUCH more pressing issues like yawn health care,
education and the minimum wage.

Rush IS right: It's going to take a couple or three more attacks, probably
even more devastating than 9/11, before we wake up to the threat we STILL
face. Sadly, many of the plethora of lily-livered leftists that exist today
STILL won't "get it". Peace, man.
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JR