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maxxxxx on June 7, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: FBI wants access to browser history without a warr...

That's the thing. "Terrorism" like "communism" previously is described as threat where regular laws are not strong enough and here needs to be an exception. Communism went away but terrorism will most likely never go away.

TallGuyShort on June 7, 2016 [–]

In fact if we end up patrolling Muslim neighborhoods as some presidential candidates have suggested, I suspect we'll only end up increasing terrorism.

zaroth on June 8, 2016 | [–]

I'm pretty sure that's the whole point. Politicians are generally asses, but not dumbasses.

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