the patriot act: do people really know about its existance? Who doesnt know and who does?

Answer 1

i know about it and think it;s the worse document for this country ever, and all who approved it should be held to treason.

Answer 2

Most people have heard of it but I would venture to guess few have read it. They probably don't know about this 1995 bomb the CALEA either. It was passed when Bill Clinton was puppet er President. It's all the same dance, you just add a step each round...
CALEA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act
Patriot Act
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/resources/17381res20030402.html
Which includes this tidbit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter
And let's not forget the MCA
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s109-3930

Bad guys planning session circa 1992:
Okay a minor wtc attack gets the ball rolling. Then
for national security we get phone signals all formatted the same and unencrypted with the CALEA, then we hit em again in a few years and give ourselves the authority to listen with the Patriot Act and NSL, then we wait a few years and worm in the next phase... we already have the power to strip citizenship with our puppet so let's make sure we write the MCA so it looks like it only works on aliens but we all know once we strip a person's citizenship they'll be an alien (big laughs all around) and then we can use the torture and secret evidence on them as alien illegal enemy combatants. You know we'll get a conviction every time because our puppet is in control of the military. Then we shoot their troublemaking ***es all legal like.
Join the ACLU... quickly... Very Quickly.
We Americans aren't fighting Republicans or Democrats or Independents, we're up against something very powerful and very evil and we better stop all this partisan bickering and figure it out before it's too late.

Answer 3

The Patriot Act says that in time of war, declared or undeclared, if the enemy wants to know about your defenses, you will have to tell him because you have a Freedom of Information Act that says everyone is entitled to know.

It also says that if a gang of terrorists move into the house next door, it's your obligation to keep quiet and not tell the police about them until you first tell the terrorists that you were going to do it. That's the part that stops you from giving out personal information

If the terrorists are part of a particular religion or a particular race, you cannot do anything that interferes with their actions because that would be construed as racial and illegal

If you see someone planting a an object under a car, something that you believe is a bomb, you cannot do anything about it. You have to wait until it explodes and kills a lot of people, then you can tell the police.

What a bunch of baloney!

Answer 4

The USA PATRIOT Act was rushed through both houses of Congress in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks. Basically, it was written by the same neo-conmen handlers who convinced Bush that we HAD to take out Iraq at all costs.

Its name is actually an acronym (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act), which ought to tell you something about it right there. They came up with the acronym before they even wrote the laws.

Basically, it guts our constitutional protections and turns the Bill of Rights into so much toilet paper. The ironic part is that as our National Knucklehead was doing his sound bite/photo op amid the smoldering rubble of the WTC on 9/12, he told the American people that the terror attack occured because "they hate our freedom".

Six weeks later, the neo-conmen succeeded in crushing a number of our basic freedoms with this act. Maybe they figured if they took our freedoms away the terrorists would have nothing to be envious of.

Nearly sixty years earlier, another group of traitorous con-men seized an opportunity to gut their country's constitutional protections, pretty much for the same reasons.

On the day after the Reichstag fire in Berlin, in 1933, the Weimar government, under the direction of Hermann Goering, whipped up the Reichstag Fire Decree, (also known as the "Order of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State"), and their senile president, Von Hindenburg, signed it.

"On the basis of Article 48 paragraph 2 of the Constitution of the German Reich, the following is ordered in defense against Communist state-endangering acts of violence:

§ 1. Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [habeas corpus], freedom of opinion, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications, and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed."

Substitute "United States" for "German Reich", and "terrorist" for "Communist" and you pretty much have the PATRIOT act in a nutshell. The Reichstag Fire Decree was the document that allowed Hitler and his legally elected Nazi party to take over all power in Germany. They did it to "protect the people."

What was it Ben Franklin said about those who would trade liberty for security?

Answer 5

Most people have heard about it but most don't really know the details. It's just hidden in there like half the stuff ratified in Congress and the Senate.

Answer 6

The blogbaba knows, but he isn't telling.

Answer 7

They know what this administration wants them to know (and think).