re: #184 Political Atheist

You say that as if the changes the P.A. made don’t matter.

No, I don’t. I have no idea why you keep asserting these things. Nothing I said can be reasonably interpreted as ‘the changes the PA made don’t matter’.

For your understanding given your thrice expressed inability to understand my posts- I was talking about the rally, not congress, today not years, and the Patriot Act not some imaginary perfect day from the past for privacy.

You said ” Very little attention to reasonable efforts to assess the legalities and return to our previous civil protections. ” I’m asking what those previous civil protections are/were. I’m also unclear as to how this relates to this rally.

The judiciary has been the last resort to end some really bad legislation. Court challenges come after passage not during the shaping of the law. The courts don’t preempt laws, they uphold or end them after a proper legal challenge. Hence the term last resort. It’s about timing, not the level of desperation.

Okay, well, last resort is a pretty inaccurate term, then. “Last resort” carries the meaning of desperation. You should probably use a term that doesn’t have the meaning of ‘desperation’ if you don’t mean desperation.