President Obama signed a Patriot Act renewal in France last night, minutes before the act was set to expire. The renewal extends wiretapping and record searching in the name of hunting terrorists.
About the Patriot Act
The Patriot Act was signed into law after the 9/11 attacks, it was a response to fears of more domestic terror cells. Congress and President Bush used the newly born fear of Americans to take away privacy rights amid panic of terrorist threats. MSNBC quoted Obama as saying the Patriot Act is, "...an important tool for us to continue dealing with an ongoing terrorist threat."
Obama Patriot Act Continues Privacy Invasions
According to BBC News, Obama renewed the bill from France because he's attending a G8 summit. The Patriot Act renewal happened despite ongoing concerns that the law violates civil liberties. Provisions in the act include collecting and scrutinizing business records of law-abiding, non-suspect citizens. The Patriot Act never should have become a law, even a temporary one, and now its reign has been extended for another four years.
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1) that there was a lot of really unjustified monitoring of innocuous parties
2) that without that kind of monitoring, subversives were able to do their harm to America
I mean personally, you can tap my phone, read my mail, search my house anytime you want. You ain't gonna hear shit, read shit, or find shit, that would put me in jail, well other than the fact I think Barrack is a piece of shit...But that's my constitutional right as a citizen...So for those of you who consider the Patriot Act an invasion of your privacy, hide your crack pipes, quit flying in really good weed from Columbia, not to mention cocaine, quit screwing the IRS, and start paying your friggin child support, and you won't have anything to worry about....CAUSE YOUR LEGAL!!!!!
I gotta give it to him on this one though, he did the right thing.
Congrats Mr Prez..
Does the president as well as members of Congress take an oath to defend the Constitution? Yes.
Does the Patriot Act violate the Constitution? Yes. Amendments I IV, and VI.
Yet most of the public goes along thinking one side is wonderful while the other is crap. Both sides ignored the GUARANTEED (Constitutional) rights of the public, in order to manipulate with fear.
Purely shameful.
When any branch of the federal government forgets that premises and begins to disregard and/or delete the rights afforded to all citizens under/by the Constitution, that is the begining of a loss which no American citizen should agree to, much less , to stand idly by and do nor say anything in opposition thereto.
To loose or have taken away, for any reason, even one right afforded to American citizens under the Constitution, is to loose not only one freedom nor one right, but to begin to loose our guaranteed way of life. A lifestyle of "We The People, For The People and By The People" not a form of life of, we the government, for the government and of the government.
A lifestyle which has been fought for, suffered for and died for without question nor complaint by men and women who love this country and our guaranteed way of life as a free people.
Those who have commented to this article and in their comments, have stated that they find such spying on the citizens of the United States by the government to be agreeable to them, are IMHO, unknowingly and/or unwittingly, submitting and agreeing to a section of un-Constitutional laws which of our government illegally instituted.
The government did so, during a time of great apprehension, when the American people were vunerable to the fear of the unknown and thereby willing to allow the governemnt to act in what they at the time, earnestly believed was their best interest.
Although, I do not believe nor suggest, that our government intentionally acted to circumvent the Constitution, nevertheless, I sincerely believe that is what was the end results. Moreover, the continuation and extention of these laws by a second presidential administration, does not make it any more legal nor Constitutional, it only makes it more contemptable and un-Constitutional.
I, for one, have written and contacted by phone the office of my Congressional Senator to voice my objection to all such laws of intrusion upon my guaranteed rights of freedom as an American citizen and will continue to do so until these laws are repealed.