[WikiEN-l] The downside to requiring account creation. See also: [[Slippery slope]]

Thu Dec 8 14:27:37 UTC 2005

On 12/7/05, Brian <reflection at gmail.com> wrote:
> Many feel that the [[USA PATRIOT Act]] was only passed on the basis of it being
> a highly emotional, gut reaction. Pretty much everyone was OK with it at first,
> but over time a lot of Americans have come to wonder if it violates some of our
> very basic principles. That's just a surface analogy - don't read into it too
> far. The point is that, whether or not it is a perennial suggestion, and whether
> or not an article existed for several months and displayed a prominent person as
> an assassin, we should absolutely not go against the principles that got us
> here.

Perfectly said.