It seems like our freedoms are being taken away everyday. What do you think?
2007-03-20 13:42:11 · 29 answers · asked by Monika 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Just a follow up:
Certain provisions of the Patriot Act, could expose your most personal information. Currently, it allows the FBI to get a court order to search your home and not tell you for months, or indefinitely.
The government can also get a secret court order for your personal medical and financial records, without having any facts even remotely connecting you to a foreign terrorist.
2007-03-20 13:51:50 · update #1
And Another follow up:
Little inconveniences such as, waiting in line at the airport does not bother me. The fact is that our country was founded on a constitution and amendments that entitled us to certain born rights. Where do you stop with taking rights away? If it’s for the good of all, why do we have any rights at all?
2007-03-20 14:02:26 · update #2
Yes, it scares the living crap out of me. And combined with the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that allows the President to declare anyone an unlawful enemy combatant and hold them without charges, define torture, and suspend the Habeaus Corpus. This is exactly what police states do not free countries. This really concerns me and at the same time scares me.
2007-03-20 14:01:21 · answer #1 · answered by j 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The Patriot Act was the second act of the play. Look at CALEA, pushed by a Democrat using the first WTC attack as a fear lever. It set the stage for the Patriot Act and the NSL to work efficiently and we'd have had warrantless eavesdropping in 1995 under President Clinton if he'd had his way. Take a look at the Military Commissions Act, a rather banal piece of law until you realize you can have your citizenship stripped, making you an "alien". Read the MCA and see what rights you have as an alien illegal enemy combatant. Consider that the President is the Commander and Chief of the Military and all of a sudden you realize we no longer have a legislative, judicial and executive branch. We have a king.
This isn't about Democrats and Republicans. It's about a power grab by an evil cabal of elite. And the goal is to get Democrats to vote for Senator Clinton and Republicans to support Gulliani who as you may recall was a team player during 9/11.
If either of them get into the whitehouse we are in big trouble because I think, as do many, that they are on the same facist team.
2007-03-20 14:01:36 · answer #2 · answered by seattleogre 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As a Libertarian I'm against the Patriot Act. Why would they check all of us? Why don't just check the Muslims or Arab born people, those are the ones that attack us? Is an invasion of privacy and an example of an Orwellian government.
2007-03-20 13:57:57 · answer #3 · answered by cynical 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The Patriot Act. because at the same time as they take our freedom to talk freely faraway from us, you shouldn't be allowed to question each of the belongings you wrote about up there. someone will be investigating you for it! And by ability of ways: no individual has proposed banning inner most firearm possession, in undemanding words making regulations to require gun vendors to take perfect duty by ability of registering and having history exams run. Smoking kills no longer in undemanding words the human beings smoking yet those round them. making use of a lot less power expenditures you a lot less money and no individual is forcing you to do any of those issues. The airwaves are public and as such favor to a minimum of attempt to save their content fabric suited for youngster's ears. Social courses help each body as they carry taxpayers the position there have been in undemanding words consumers earlier. On one issue we agree. Eminent area should be for public protection, sanitation and application applications in undemanding words. i have self assurance, in spite of the undeniable fact that that replaced into the conservatives who pushed that agenda as builders have a tendency to be Republicans...
2016-12-02 08:02:57 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How does it give us better protection for Bush to have all of the power instead of still going through normal channels? Why does any one man need all of this power? I'm sorry. He has given me absolutely no reason to trust him. The Patriot Act was a huge unnecessary mistake.
2007-03-20 14:32:18 · answer #5 · answered by BekindtoAnimals22 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
NO IT'S NOT JUST YOU. This Adm. does alot of these changes behind closed doors. If you think of the controversy w/9-11 and theNWO BushSR talked about on 9-11-90 it could paint a bigger picture of intent.
2007-03-20 13:53:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is scary. 9/11 is a handy excuse to strip away our freedoms. Who knows how long it'll be before we see martial law? Then there are concentration camps being built.
(Always have to add this disclaimer: I'm not a liberal.)
2007-03-20 14:37:48 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Any time our Constitutional Rights are threatened, it is scary. Bush has successfully managed to take some of them away, while simultaneously giving himself immunity from prosecution, that is really scary.
2007-03-20 13:49:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
It should scare us all. Calling it a Patriot Act is laughable.. it is an act designed to give Bush unquestioned powers and has enabled him to commit crime after crime.
Now he is threatening to use it again... to lie to Americans... Just how long and how stupid are we to let him get away with this. It is disgusting.
2007-03-20 13:47:58 · answer #9 · answered by Debra H 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
The FBI agent reading this over my shoulder told me to say that it's fine...perfectly fine. Really. I have to go now.
2007-03-20 13:50:48 · answer #10 · answered by P. M 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋