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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 5 points 3 days ago

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America

The first sentence is already rotten. No single person in a state of law should have that much power.

It's probably standard verbiage since even before the Patriot Act, but I still don't like it.