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  I may be mistaken but I don't think you can make a contribution to the ACLU through CFC this year. It appears that this same Patriot Act requires charities to report contributions from folks considered shady by Uncle Sam and a number of charities have decided not to participate and violate their contributors privacy rights.

  I have a horrible sinking feeling after watching the returns last night that our basic freedoms as Americans have been lost. This administration will say I am an alarmist and not grounded in reality but four more years of our basic rights being whittled away slowly will kill this Republic. Frogs always jump out of a pot of boiling water but if you slowly raise the temperature with the frogs already in the pot-- they will die and not even realize they are being cooked.

  GovExec.com reader Posted November 3, 2004 6:35 AM
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  I would have never believed ...

  Mr. Ashcroft helped me decide where to earmark my CFC contribution for this year - in fact, he alone kept me from withdrawing my support of the CFC. I have continued participation and earmarked all funds to the ACLU - they appear to be one of the few, if not the lone outfit, fighting this wholesale attack on the Constitution by Mr. Ashcroft and his DOJ minions.

  The President, Congress,and the entire Judicial Branch of the government should be ashamed of allowing and/or encouraging this attack on our basic freedoms - they have already given Mr. Bush's so-called "evil ones" a victory by passing the unamerican and unpatriotic, PATRIOT ACT.

  I have never had much use for the ACLU, I am a lifelong hunter, gun owner, former law enforcement officer and veteran, but I suppose it is time to stop our reckless politicians and their appointees, hopefully my contribution will help.

  My thanks and money both go to the ACLU.

  GovExec.com reader Posted October 28, 2004 4:14 PM
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  Now the Bush administration is spending the taxpayers dollars to justify the Patriot act. Is it any wonder our country is going to be in bankruptcy in a couple of years. We spend your money to justify a lousy law.

  The facts are: $1.5 million on TSA bubbas and $210,00 on how great the Patriot act is. You will notice that there wasn't a penny spent on Federal Employees that do real work every day.

  I hope you see where the priorities are - they are not with the workers. If you vote for Bush you will get more of the same. I can hear all the Bush lovers now, "I didn't know that was what all of that stuff meant". How do you impeach a lame duck president who controls the legislative, the supreme court and the white house?

  GovExec.com reader Posted October 28, 2004 8:18 AM
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  Gee, the Justice Department finds that John Ascroft (the head of the Justice Department) didn't do anything wrong. How about that?

  GovExec.com reader Posted October 27, 2004 10:34 AM
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  That was purely a political stunt, and a waste of taxpayers' dollars. People as dumb as Conyers should not be allowed to reproduce.

  Illinois Republican

  GovExec.com reader Posted October 27, 2004 9:45 AM
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  Another round of BS from the Justice Dept. The fact that a government employee is a political appointee should never excuse that appointee from the laws governing government employees. How he got the job is not relevant. He clearly lobbied and had the staff call Congress to pressure for a law that goes well in a Nazi party but not in the Republican party of the USA. This simply is another examle of the Bush administration's total disregard for the values of America.

  tax payer Posted October 27, 2004 6:52 AM