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this issue honestly pisses me off beyond belief and I wandered into this forum to post about it.

The thing is politically, no matter who is in power the outcome would be the same. The folks in charge of 'national security' have a free reign in this country to do whatever they damn please. It has been like this since America emerged as a player in global politics during WWII. The sad thing is no one is going to care as long as guys who seem blatantly connected to the enemy, as in a guy named Khaled El-Masri, get kidnapped. During the War no cared that the Japanese were interned. During the Red Scare no one cared that Communist sympathizers were being monitored by the intelligence services and having their lives ruined. It is the state of democracy in this country.