USA Patriot Act Continued
GWB the USA Patriot Act President, if he only had a brain!
Last night, Wednesday February 25, in a voice-vote the U.S. Senate passed without debate, an extension to some of the provisions within the USA Patriot Act that were set to expire on Sunday. Still has to go to the House but given the pending expiration this weekend, it should quickly pass the House too. Most of us have been watching the Patriot Act since President George W. Bush signed it into law in late 2001. The country was still in shock about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks so it passed through Congress quickly.
Put concisely, the USA Patriot Act is not good for USA patriots (a.k.a we the people with dissident voices). I am not going to bore anyone with a rehash of any of that but anytime the US government (Executive, Legislative, Judiciary branches) does anything with the USA Patriot Act you should pay attention. So as the resident “angry white man”, here is what I see.
Looking at the Main Justice article we can more clearly see what is entailed when Team Controlled Media discusses “provisions” in the USA Patriot Act.
Main Justice article
“The bill would keep in place the Patriot Act’s “lone wolf,” , business records and “roving wiretap” powers until Feb. 28, 2011. The House has yet to consider the measure.”
There are two items that caught my attention. I think on the surface these may not alarm others but you need to understand the ramifications. You need to think them through beyond a brief literal interpretation.
First, on the “Lone Wolf” provision, don’t be fooled by language about “only to non-U.S. persons” because we are talking about the governmental authority to “track a target without any discernible affiliation” to terrorist group. In a “track a target” scenario, do you really think tracking/surveillance stops as soon as the “non-U.S. person” comes in contact with a U.S. person? But it is the “without any discernible affiliation” that should really causes concern. Do you think the Founding Fathers had this in mind when they established the civil liberties they tried to guarantee?
Secondly, the “Roving wiretap” provision is even more obtrusive to our civil liberties. When you officially allow the government to monitor phone lines and internet activity that a “terrorism suspect may be using, regardless of whether others who are not suspects also regularly use” these phone lines or internet, is dangerous. If you cannot see the open-ended loop holes of this provision you should read it more carefully. Again, do you think the Founding Fathers had this in mind when they tried to guarantee Americans civil liberties?
Main Justice article
- Lone wolf: Allows the government to track a target without any discernible affiliation to a foreign power, such as an international terrorist group. The provision applies only to non-U.S. persons. The government has never used it.
- Roving wiretaps: Allows the government to monitor phone lines or Internet accounts that a terrorism suspect may be using, regardless of whether others who are not suspects also regularly use them.
No, this is not new news. We have known about these USA Patriot Act attacks on our civil liberties since they were originally established. No, we are not opposed to fighting terrorism on domestic soil. And No, the Founding Fathers probably did not predict US citizens would be targeted by these “terrorism suspects” on domestic soil. Nor did they know the extent to which the US government would go to put all Americans in jeopardy of these attacks.
But what our Founding Fathers did do is try to prevent the foreign policy disaster we now have in place. They also tried to guarantee we the American people would vigilantly fight to maintain the civil liberties they set up. Our Founding Fathers also knew all too well what certain influences could and would do to our country.
Click here for original Main Justice article
Click here for original Washington Post article
4 Responses to “USA Patriot Act Continued”
Comment from zaknick
Time February 26, 2010 at 1:10 am
F*ckin right, try them in a real court for their REAL fascism and HANG THEIR PUNK ASSES
George HW Bush killed JFK!!!
Comment from Mihail
Time February 26, 2010 at 3:08 am
Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves.”
— Menachem Begin – Israeli Prime Minister 1977–1983
“They are the so-called neo-cons, or neo-conservatives. A compact group, almost all of whose members are Jewish. They hold the key positions in the Bush administration, as well as in the think-tanks that play an important role in formulating American policy and the ed-op pages of the influential newspapers….
Seemingly, all this is good for Israel. America controls the world, we control America. Never before have Jews exerted such an immense influence on the center of world power.” Uri Avnery, “The Night After,”
Counterpunch, April 10, 2003.
Comment from Mihail
Time February 26, 2010 at 3:09 am
I’ve never seen a President — I don’t care who he is — stand up to them. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point where I wasn’t writing anything down. If the American people understood what a grip these people have got on our government, they would RISE UP IN ARMS. Our citizens certainly don’t have any idea what goes on.”
Thomas H. Moorer
(1912 – 2004)
Admiral,
US Navy & Chairman,
Joint Chiefs of Staff during interview on
24 August 1983.
Karl Marx
“The Jewish people as a whole will become its own Messiah. It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship.
In this New World Order the children of Israel will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The Governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands.”
— Baruch Levy, Letter to Karl Marx, ‘La Revue de Paris’, p.574, June 1, 1928
Comment from F*CKING TREASONOUS BASTARDS
Time February 26, 2010 at 12:01 am
The only way out of this f*cking mess is a REVOLUTION, and someday, these miserable crank sucking bastards are going to HANG for this sh*t!