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Wearing a T-shirt makes you a terrorist?

Posted February 22, 2001 8:12 PM.

Wearing a T-shirt makes you a terrorist: People often ask me why I don't agree with laws that - while they may be vague - if implemented properly will only benefit people. Well it's the vagueness that worries me. Saying that those who 'incite violence overseas', even while not actually doing anything other than writing an editorial, should be considered terrorists is not acceptable. Most of the powers of the act discussed will not be used to subjugate people and take away their freedoms under this government. But any number of them could be used by subsequent governments whose politics we might individually find offensive, destructive or even personally damaging.

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