The Patriot Act question.?

Question

Who believes the Patriot Act is really honestly being used to fight terrorism? I am aware of only one incident in the news that it was used to gain information on a local business man in Vegas named Mike Gilardi for bribing officials to approve his strip clubs. Many people I know are personally aware of how the Patriot Act was made with loopholes to spy on Americans. Are you aware of any or do you just trust the feds?

Answer 1

Most Americans trust the goverment with out question, the patriot act has just open the door for the feds to spy on EVERY single American civilian.

the government has taken ALL of our privacy away and most people don't seem to care

all that's left to do is to brand us with a barcode and implant tracking devices, which by the way i guarantee will happen in the next 50 years

Answer 2

Intelligence sharing between intelligence agencies was going on before 9/11 and prior to the Patriot Act. The main purpose behind the Patriot Act was to remove Constitutional checks and balances and expand federal surveillance power. The government felt those pesky checks and balances were hindering their investigations on "terror suspects". This act is being abused horribly and needs to be abolished asap. The government does have the capacity and right to spy on any of us as they see fit. They can do it by way of listening to our phone conversations, obtaining our library records, monitoring our internet usage, reading our emails, etc. Citizens who are terrorist suspects are labeled "enemy combatants" and can be detained indefinitely without due process.

Answer 3

Actually, the Patriot Act doesn't contain most of the provisions people seem to think it does.

Aside from secondary programs (relief funds for the families of terrorist victims, etc.) the main provisions of the Patriot Act are the sharing of intelligence data between agencies, and the use of executive issued National Security Letters (NSL) to get information from public sources.

The sharing of intelligence data is being used as much to fight terrorism as anything else.

The FBI just released reports a couple months ago saying that the use of NSLs for terrorism related investigation was drastically over-reported (much fewer were actually used to fight terrorism) and that there were significant abuses to NSLs.

But that's beside the point. The Patriot Act (as a piece of legislation) is not what allowed warrantless wiretapping, or detention without trial or hearing for hundreds of civilians, or any of the other unlawful actions by the Bush regime. Those are separate programs.

So, while lots of problems are occurring, it's other programs that are the primary source of the abuse. Compared to them, the Patriot Act itself is only intrusive and annoying.

Answer 4

The Patriot Act is the White House and the present Congress (both Zionist infiltrated) way of dismantling the Constitution and our freedoms. I feel that the People of America should make war against the Zionists. They are the true enemy and the true terrorists, not the Muslims.

Answer 5

It's a direct violation of the 4th Amendment. It allows for all these agencies to spy on us via phone, email, letters. Hell if anyone cares to notice, there's quite a few million CCTV cameras going up everywhere. From the freeways to intersections, you can't deny their existence. George Orwell is rolling in his grave after his book 1984 gave a clear prediction of what lies ahead.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

For when I was little, my parents had me convinced that G-d and Santa were always watching me. So, this Act came as no surprise to me. Besides, certain "cave-people" gave the government good enough reasons to put it into place. We shall see with the next election, is the act will be renewed or abolished.

Answer 8

The 'Patriot Act'(a name Orwell would be saying, "I told you so," about) was written by a Zionist Jew, named Michael Chertoff. Head of Homeland Security, no less.

Answer 9

I look at it this way. The Feds can spy on me all they want because I've got nothing to hide. The agent that gets assigned to my "case" will be bored out of his skull. Most Americans aren't worried about it at all because most Americans are neither terrorists nor crooks, and whether you want to believe it or not, there are oodles of safeguards against abuses written into it. God bless America!!

Answer 10

I'm going to joke about it and say who know nobody has read it...