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"(3) the use by the FBI of those letters that threatened people with criminal punishment if they revealed its contents. The latter making all the recipients co-conspirators in the FBI's inanities."-illyonnoc
Good, three points of constant irritants, for sure, illyonnoc.
Your number three, among other (sneak and peak abuses) keeps me awake at night. Once the FBI tapped into the PATActI&II, they saw a gold mine of opportunities, a short cut to investigation (loosely used) they had been dreaming of since J E Hoover.
When one sees how the once minor activities and behavior of everyday Americans have morphed into devious-appearing, assaults on the Homeland, will we understand the mind set of rightest, authoritarian policing of our thoughts and affiliations. (think recent party conventions for ample proof)