I wish I could remember exactly what I'm thinking about, but a professor at the school I was at up until last semester was explaining how part of one of the "more controversial" security measures (Patriot Act, Homeland Security, or something to that effect) had an amendment that was tagged onto a larger, unrelated bill, and because the bill was so important, and the amendment so small in comparison, it got passed anyways.

I don't really expect anyone to take this into very much consideration, as I don't know what laws were changed, which bill it was, and because of that I can't find any sources to cite. It's one of the things, though, that has inched it's way under my skin and built up with a lot of the other stuff I've talked about in this thread to make me think the way I do about our situation today. If I can find any articles or information about this I'll be sure to post it.

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