When it comes to civil liberties, apparently Democrats are just as bad as Republicans.

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4. I do not agree that this legislation is 'nothing'. The comparison is strained. The actual question

to ask is what would our leadership have done in FDR's actual position if 9-11 had, like Pearl Harbor, been followed by constant actual attacks on the West Coast, the occupation of an Alaskan Island, shelling of military base in Oregon, and the deployment of new explosive devices which had already been used to deliver biological weapons by the same enemy on another front? If our current enemies had submarines off California each day?
All of those things happened. We were in a World War, and the West Coast was wide open. What do you think GW Bush would have done had events followed one another like they did in FDR's time? Bush opened Gitmo, renditions and indefinite detentions, massive spying on everyone, and he invaded a nation that had nothing to do with 9-11. Like WW2, Bush opened two fronts, we are still waging one of those wars right now. WW2 was far shorter than the Bush Wars. Almost as if FDR wanted to win and these guys want to fight....
Pretty hard for me to say FDR did worse considering the context, the real events, and comparing what we in our times faced in terms of actual events and attempted attacks. As I recall, Bushco went raging through NYC frisking anyone who looked middle eastern, set up a huge security apparatus that functions in secret, and on and on. WW2 came to an actual, decided end. This thing, it just rolls on and you have people 'detained' for years and years, for the duration of an endless history....
What you call nothing sure sounds like something to me.