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Originally Posted by Seti
Well Scared Web Warrior [sic] all I can do is suggest you broaden your horizons and read and watch more than the media allow you too.
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I have very broad horizons indeed, and certainly don't simply accept what the media tell me.
Nor am I actually saying that I support the new legislation, because by all accounts it wouldn't be very effective anyway.
But I
do think that we cannot ignore the possible threat and must therefore guard against it. That may well include changing some things we're not that happy/comfortable with.
The law does at times get changed to counter some type of crime or other, but very often we just let it happen (even support it wholeheartedly), or we don't care simply because it doesn't affect
us.
With respect to the anti-terrorism legislation under discussion I suspect that because we know that the law can't be applied justly it
might just affect any of
us, not just the ones it should target.
If we knew the laws would only affect terrorists we wouldn't be debating it (except maybe with terrorists.)
As to converting to Islam - wouldn't protect you from the fundamentalists and their insane interpretation of Islam - they'd just say you were a yankee collaborator and then you would be a legitimate target to them. No matter what you look like, or even if you
are of middle eastern origin! (Just look what's happening in Iraq.)