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Your Story Don’t Float – Your Bat Do

You’re done, Sammy, stick in the fork!
Your excuse, like this rhyme, doesn't work.
So just end the disputes
Over your Irish roots
And acknowledge your homers from Cork?

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Give Me Liberty, or Give Me John Ashcroft

Our liberties have been attacked
So let us now all make a pact
To demand the repeal
Of this government zeal
And show them how patriots act.

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Believe it or not, they’re not through
Putting Bill of Rights to the screw.
With chutzpah, unequal,
They’re planning the sequel.
Get ready for “Patriot II.”

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Overview of Changes to Legal Rights

Some of the fundamental changes to Americans' legal rights by the Bush administration and the USA Patriot Act following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks:

    Freedom of Association — Government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigation.

    Freedom of Information — Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records requests.

    Freedom of Speech — Government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.

    Right to Legal Representation — Government may monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.

    Freedom from Unreasonable Searches — Government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation.

    Right to a Speedy and Public Trial — Government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.

    Right to Liberty — Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them.

                                                                                 — The Associated Press
Not a Good Thing?

With the sentence, the court set the tone
That Sam Waksal would not be alone.
As he got seven years,
Oh, then, Martha, our fears
Were that you may become his grim clone.

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