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title: "What Good is the Bill of Rights?"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/10/what-good-is-the-bill-of-rights.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/10/what-good-is-the-bill-of-rights.html"
published: "2004-01-10T18:40:00"
updated: "2004-01-10T18:40:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "This is scary . I'm sure almost every country in the world (including Israel) does this though. And there are things we will never know, or find out. [via Have Browser, will travel ]"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# What Good is the Bill of Rights?

By Roy Osherove January 10, 2004

**Historical article** · Originally published January 10, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[This is scary](http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/1/7/231137/2285). I'm sure almost every country in the world (including Israel) does this though. And there are things we will never know, or find out.

_\[via_ [_Have Browser, will travel_](http://jim.roepcke.com/6724)_\]_


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