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--------------------------- PREVENTING A REIGN OF TERROR: CIVIL LIBERTIES IMPLICATIONS OF TERRORISM LEGISLATION David B. Kopel [FNa] Joseph Olson [FNaa] Copyright (C) 1996 Oklahoma City University; David B. Kopel, Joseph Olson. (...) In this Article, we have discussed a plethora of measures that would chop away at the Constitution; for not one of those measures have its proponents offered evidence that it would have prevented the terrible crime in Oklahoma City. Everything that terrorists do is already illegal. Current laws already provide ample authority for investigations of potential terrorists, including persons who have done nothing more than talk big. Various proposals that are offered as supposed solutions to terrorism--including more spying on peaceful dissidents, more electronic surveillance, trials with secret evidence, felonizing charitable donations to foreign humanitarian causes, and federalizing and militarizing criminal law--will make America more dangerous, not safer. Releasing the federal government from the strict Constitutional rule of law would, in the long run, facilitate state terrorism. (...)