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This is what the Centralia Chronicle said about Maria Cantwell's vote FOR the Patriot Act Extension:
"By contrast, our other U.S. senator, Democrat Maria Cantwell, to her credit was among the huge majority of other Democratic senators — 34 — who voted in favor of the measure, along with all 55 Republican senators."
The contrast they speak of was Patty Murray's vote against it:
"She essentially gave more priority to protecting civil liberties that haven’t even been actually infringed upon by the act in the five years of its existence than to protecting Americans against the much more likely and far worse danger of terrorist attacks."
There haven' t been any infringements? What about Canadian Maher Arar being sent to Syria for torture? What about the VA nurse charged with sedition for speaking out against the administration's treatment of returning war vets? What about kicking Cindy Sheehan out of Congress because she was wearing an antiwar t-shirt? Yikes! Should we send a delegation to Centralia to inform them?
SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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