can whom ever is answeringbe more specific on why or why not
2006-09-23 07:31:19 · 10 answers · asked by KIMBERLY F 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Why does this need explaining? You do know what the constitution stipulates...yes? Under the guise of the war on terror, the government can illegally search your house. The government can seize private documents like phone records, bank statements and other financial statements. The government can seize your computer with out any probable cause of any crime. The government can listen in on private conversations. They can also set up computer programs that will be initiated by certain words being spoken on the telephone or calls to certain locations. All of this is constitutionally reprehensible.
Now that the police have these new powers, they are using them to fight crime that is not even terror related. The constitution has been whittled down to much less than Thomas Jefferson ever intended.
Is this news to you?
2006-09-23 07:44:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Perhaps I should post the text of the Constitution and the Patriot Act. Upon actually reading it, anyone can see that it does, indeed violate the constitution and infringes upon civil liberties.
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
this has the entirety of the text of the Constitution and the Ammendments.
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html
this has the entirety of the text of the Patriot Act.
It is interesting to note that the original patriot act that had been debated and approved by the massive majority of both the House and the Senate was completely thrown away, and at 4am, this new 3000 page document that noone had yet seen was introduced for vote, giving congressmen and senators only 6 hours to try to read all 3000 pages. Many of them never got to read any of it, since they didn't know until 9am when they arrived to vote on the document that had already been debated.
Why would they do this? So that people wouldn't know what they were voting on. Is this promoting democracy? NO!
2006-09-23 07:58:14 · answer #2 · answered by corwynwulfhund 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No it does no longer. The secure guards retaining the 4th modification are portion of the Patriot Act, as are the criteria for a warrant for cord tapping and courtroom order for accumulating telephone and e-mail advice. The rfile below outlines and explains all the information of the Patriot Act such as protections presented in situations of abuse of the means presented interior the patriot act.
2016-11-23 17:28:36 · answer #3 · answered by winkleman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO
Name one
It doesn't infringe on any liberties
You drank too much Anti-America Kool-aid and lost your ability to reason or deal with facts and are blinded by hate for the USA
You also seem to have forgotten 9/11
You be more specific
Name one of your liberties being infringed upon
Just name one
I'm sorry you can't get phone calls from terrorist or give money to terrorist or plot to kill women and children like terrorist
Come on name a liberty you have lost...Open your F-ing eyes see the BS you been believing for what it is BS
2006-09-23 07:43:01 · answer #4 · answered by buzzy360comecme 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps it can be viewed that way. I also hate the idea that I can't just drive in whichever lane I choose and take things from stores without paying. Having to pay into Social Security is also not something I agree with. Being required to send my kids to school and the laws making me report my income every year and a huge bummer. I don't understand how they can infringe on my civil liberties like that. Who agreed to let them pass those laws?
2006-09-23 07:41:38 · answer #5 · answered by united9198 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i can't think of one way it has affected MY life.
this legislation made it possible to law enforcement to locate and identify people who want to kill Americans.
i think the record since 9/11 speaks for itself.
Lincoln suspended "habeus corpus" during the civil war- you could be arrested and jailed just for acting suspicious. this country recovered and laws were changed afterward when the threat had been eliminated. i have faith in the american people to adapt after our enemy has been destroyed.
2006-09-23 07:42:55 · answer #6 · answered by R J 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
absolutely. The purpose of the P.A. is to gather information on everybody so the govt can trace the bad guys without them saying it's only done to them.
2006-09-23 07:39:45 · answer #7 · answered by sethsdadiam 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No. The job of this government is to protect it's citizens. If you don't like the government protecting you, you have the freedom to look elsewhere to live.
2006-09-23 07:40:33 · answer #8 · answered by Huevos Rancheros 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
boo hoo
2006-09-23 07:33:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
sure it does, it changes our constitution!!!
2006-09-23 07:42:16 · answer #10 · answered by frankalan9999 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋