Re: My Blind Spot - Patriot Act II

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 09:22:09 MST

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    --- Hubert Mania <humania@t-online.de> wrote:
    >
    > My main source was an interview, the German news magazine "Der
    > Spiegel" did with one ACLU activist. The URL of the ACLU I provided
    > I ordered from this wise old man called Mr. Google. And I read
    > this page only cursorily and thought it was sufficient for a first
    > impression about Patriot Act II.

    I would caution against making such a judgement. The ACLU is notorious
    for putting an excessively left wing spin on any document they publish,
    and they cherry pick which 'civil liberties' they choose to protect.
    For example, they are entirely without support for my 2nd Amendment
    civil rights. Similarly, they are claiming that prisoners of war
    deserve legal representation, without one shred of precedent supporting
    such a claim, and much opposing such a claim.

    The ACLU's credibility is somewhat below that of, say, the UN.

    Furthermore, I'd caution against drawing conclusions from a
    translation. How a translation reads is entirely subjective to the
    particular words chosen. Mathematically its like taking 10% of 10%. If
    your document is already hopelessly biased in one direction, and a
    translator with a similar bias translates it with similar degree of
    skew, your impression of the document is left way out in the 99th
    percentile of interpretation rather than smack down at the 50th
    percentile, where any dispassionate impartial observer should be.

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
    "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
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    "Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
    For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid

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