>I am probing (and goading) to get some news out of you and
>other lawyers on the list. There is very little in the ordinary
>media. I believe you, if you tell me NLG, ACLU, CCCR and others are
>working away. That's want I wanted to hear---that something is
>happening. Good. If these activities don't make it into the news,
>there is no other way to know about them.
I am not up on the details. I know some lawsuits are proceeding.
>
>I went looking around at CCCR's website and found one essay on the us
>patriot act---which I refuse to capitalize. If I could subscript it I
>would. Have you tried reading it? It is obscure and badly written in
>the extreme.
Oh, yes, very carefully.
It mostly amends Clinton's 1996(?) bill and others, so
>you need both on the table in front of you in order to follow what is
>said, and what is being replaced. Somebody posted a website reference
>for it last fall, and I tried to read it back then. I could barely
>follow it without Clinton's bad bill along side. On the other hand, it
>is convenient that bad law is usually badly written. If it reads like
>shit, sounds like shit, smells like shit, hey, it must be.
It's perfectly awful.
>jks
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