Compare and contrast the Patriot Act with
France's response and notice how much stronger France's response is:
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The lower house of France's parliament has approved plans to extend special powers by three months to try to bring a wave of urban rioting under control.
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The state of emergency laws, allowing local authorities to impose curfews, conduct house-to-house searches and ban public gatherings, date from the Algerian war of independence in the 1950s.
President Jacques Chirac told cabinet ministers the extraordinary powers are "strictly temporary and will only be applied where they are strictly necessary".
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