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A Serious Threat to Democracy

By Al Gore, AlterNet. Posted June 24, 2004.


Al Gore reminds America that we should be as fearful of a government that exploits our fear of terrorism to expand its powers as we should of terrorism itself.

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Al Gore was the vice president of the U.S. from 1992-2000.

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