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From: charliep@polaris.UUCP (Charlie Perkins)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Interesting assertions about Reagan
Message-ID: <296@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 03:30:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 03:30:39 1985
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Reply-To: charliep@polaris.UUCP (Charlie Perkins)
Organization: IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
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I recently received something in the mail that contained some
pretty discomforting assertions about some recent actions taken
by our fearless leader.  Among them were:
 -- He has authorized the CIA, for the first time in history,
    to conduct covert activities INSIDE the U.S.
 -- The FBI's National Crime Information Center is now keeping
    track of people who are "anti-authority" or
    "anti-law enforcement".  Does that include peaceful
    non-cooperation?
 -- Similarly, there is a proposal to keep track of those who
    are "suspected" of "associating" with terrorists
 -- Americans returning from Nicaragua are having their personal
    belongings seized arbitrarily (i.e, no grounds for suspicion)?
 -- In a historic move, the executive branch is itself initiating
    legal action in the Supreme Court to try to get the
    legal interpretations it wants instead of trying to persuade
    Congress to do something.  (This case concerns abortions).

My questions are:
 -- Is this really happening, or am I getting misinformed?
 -- If it IS happening, why don't all those conservatives out
    there who love R.R. get upset about it??  Are these really
    the sorts of tactics that must be pursued to keep us free?
 -- Is there any hope of ever returning the Executive branch to
    the role of putting CURRENT laws into effect, instead of trying
    to legislate, judge, and enforce whatever it wants?
-- 

Charlie Perkins, IBM T.J. Watson Research	philabs!polaris!charliep,
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