Viet Dinh Defends The Patriot Act

Grrr writes "Wired News has posted an interview with Viet Dinh, who worked on the PATRIOT Act for the Justice Department. In the past he said, "Security without liberty - it's not an America I would want to live in." And also, in this interview, "I think right now at this time and this place the greatest threat to American liberty comes from al-Qaida and their sympathizers rather than from the men and women of law enforcement and national security who seek to defend America and her people against that threat." Several of his replies are (predictably / necessarily / discouragingly) less than direct."

Shhhh!

[Anonymous Coward]

Quit agitating about the PA or the DMCA or anything - just smile and nod! Take a lesson from our Communist Brothers, you only get a quick trip to the Gulag (American Homeland Version) or a nice IRS audit.

His name is Viet Dinh

[Anonymous Coward]

but everyone around the office calls him Charlie.

Re:you are unpatriotic

[ssbljk]

yeah, stop protecting me!

MOD THIS DOWN, AC == KNOWN TROLL

[bobobobo]

Just look at any discussion. Anonymous Coward is a known troll and agitator! It's true. It's true!

Right...Al-Qaida...Suuuuuuuuuure....

[metrazol]

Yeah, because, you know, Al Qaida has hundreds of representatives in every town and city in America. Al Qaida knows where I live. Al Qaida expects a check from me every April. Al Qaida builds my roads, and runs my schools, and comes to my house every day. Al Qaida can get primetime speechs broadcast at any time. Al Qaida has tanks. Al Qaida has a million men and women ready to storm any place on Earth with overwhelming firepower within hours of being given the order. Al Qaida has nuclear submarines. Al Qaida has over a thousand silos in middle America, brimming with thermonuclear might.

In a head to head battle between the US and Al Qaida, I'm betting on Al Qaida.

I'm also looking to buy a bridge, and maybe a beach front condo in Arizona.

Re:I doubt it

[Anonymous Coward]

It's pointless to compare the US with Nazi Germany because everyone knows that Nazi Germany had kickass uniforms (they were like totally boss) and the US ones are just plain ugly.

How apropos to discuss the Patriot Act

[craXORjack]

President George Dubious Bush was on the tube tonight asking Congress to pass a constitutional amendment banning homosexual marriage. I guess he must figure that for every constitutional amendment he destroys the right thing to do is to put one back.

In America, you better stay anonymous now...

[Anonymous Coward]

thanks Slashdot

Re:You walk around with blinders on, then

[Anonymous Coward]

You really don't have a clue, do you? You think the fact that a bunch of little piggies feeding at the corporate trough represent anyone but their own greedy little power hungry selves? You think because after being subjected to a bunch of hot-button advertisements, people actually vote for them, that they somehow represent the best interests of the population?

Well, yeah; not everyone can be a liberal.

Re:The greatest threat to my liberty...

[Dirtside]

Why does it matter who we vote for? On no account should any person who wants to be president be allowed to have the job.

Sentences are not limited to three words.

[Winkhorst]

You've obviously never read "The Turn of the Screw," by Henry James, which points up the fact that sentences are not limited to a few words, but can be perfectly grammatical and quite effective literarily and still take up, in the case of the aforementioned James novel, as much as a full page and more, though this kind of extended sentence structure does require a certain intellectual prowess on the part of the reader not normally required of those, like yourself, who feed on a steady diet of comic books and technical manuals, but then, I would expect nothing less from this bastion of Linux and Java and Microsoft bashing, an attitude with which I heartily agree but do not allow to get in the way of my other interests including the reading of books with sentences of more than a few words, an enumeration of which I will leave to the reader's imagination. Touche!

Re:Novel idea here...

[terrymr]

There was a recent case where a local proscutor argued that taking a shooting class was proof of premeditation for murder. I wonder if he has the same views about traffic school :-)

Re:Shhhh!

[Billly Gates]

In Communist Russia the government spies on YOU!

Oh shit, what a minute.

Re:This is an OUTRAGE

[Anonymous Coward]

You Are Being Flamed Because

[ ] You posted a Religious Thread
[ ] You posted a accusation with no proof
[ ] You posted a thread containing 1337 talk
[ ] You posted a me > u thread
[ ] you posted a worthless offensive thread
[ ] You continued a long, stupid thread
[ ] You committed crimes against pork biproducts
[ ] You posted a "YOU ALL SUCK" message
[ ] You haven't read the FAQ
[ ] You don't know which forum to post in
[ ] You just plain suck
[X] You posted false information
[X] You posted something totally uninteresting
[ ] You doubleposted
[ ] YOU POSTED A MESSAGE ALL WRITTEN IN CAPS
[ ] You posted racist crap
[X] I don't like your tone of voice
[ ] You are not civilized enough to post in these forums
[ ] Yuo mispeled evry sengle wurd.
[ ] Your parents are related
[ ] You and your wife are related
[ ] You dated my sister
[ ] You dated my brother
[ ] You made love to my dog

In Punishment, You Must:

[ ] Give up your AOL Internet account
[ ] STFU & GTFO
[X] Jump into a bathtub while holding your monitor
[ ] Actually post something relevant
[ ] Read the f****** FAQ
[X] Call Bush and inform him he sucks
[ ] Go to your room with no supper
[ ] Apologize to everybody on this forum
[ ] Go stand in the middle of a Highway
[ ] Recite the Greek alphabet backwards
[X] Take a bath in bleach
[ ] Drink out of a spitoon
[ ] Eat my ass
[ ] Grind a rail on your sack
[ ] All of the above

In Closing, I'd Like to Say:

[ ] 1 R 1337
[ ] Pwned
[ ] GG no re
[ ] Blow me
[X] Get a life
[ ] Me > u
[X] Never post again
[ ] I pity your dog
[ ] Go to hell
[ ] Your IQ must be 7
[ ] Take your s*** somewhere else
[ ] STFU & GTFO
[ ] Learn to post or f*** off
[X] Go jump into some industrial equipment
[ ] STFU botter
[ ] All of the above

Re:The greatest threat to my liberty...

[dwhitman]

Yeah, Harvard always gives out MBAs to idiots.

So it would seem.

Re:Read the Patriot Act

[Gr8Apes]

Personally, I think the Patriot Act will either be rescinded, or thoroughly gutted within 12 months.

Re:His name is Viet Dinh

[M. Baranczak]

Sometimes, people who fled totalitarian countries are the most ardent supporters of American freedoms.

Yeah, like Henry Kissinger.

Re:I doubt it

[tundog]

Don't fret, Bush will just have the unconstituional parts amended to the constituion.