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  Conservatives take aim on Patriot Act
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Last EditedJoshua L.  Nov 23, 2003 07:49pm
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News DateNov 23, 2003 12:00am
DescriptionWASHINGTON -- Nevada conservative activist Janine Hansen is the first to say she is no Democrat or liberal, but she also complains the Bush administration has gone too far in eroding privacy and rights with the USA Patriot Act and other anti-terrorism measures.

Hansen, president of the anti-feminist Nevada Eagle Forum, backed up her complaint Thursday in Reno by being a featured speaker at a three-city announcement launching a campaign against the 2001 statute.

Most criticism of the controversial anti-terrorism law is associated with the ACLU and other liberal groups. But more often than not in the West, it is conservative libertarians like Hansen who take the lead.
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