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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
No. But contrary to the idea of the comparison, I will say that what they did then was wrong and should have been contested.
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I agree with you and back then some did, and still where locked up. "
The most prominent of these was Eugene Victor Debs, the renowned labor leader who had already run for president four times on the Socialist Party ticket. Debs gave a speech in June 1918, in which he implied he was dismayed that nearby, three fellow Socialists were rotting in prison for speaking out against the war; a few days later he was arrested, tried on ten counts of sedition and convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison. He ran for president a fifth time, in 1920, from the federal pen in Atlanta, and won nearly a million votes- 3.5% of the electorate."
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That's exactly what did happen after 9/11. It goes both ways, and different people will complain no matter what the government does, and sometimes the same people. I don't think checking everybody's emails would have prevented 9/11, and I think the NSA is wrong on this. Draconian "all or nothing" assaults on the American people are never right; not in 1776 or 1861 or 1917 or 2013.
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As the saying goes "You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time.". And I do agree that checking everyone's e-mail would of or even could of prevented 9/11, but its a needle in a haystack situation and someone's got to look for it.