I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!! Why isn't everyone else???

Question

The Patriot Act... I thought this was America not Oceania, Eurasia nor Eastasia. This country used to be the center of the free world. Now it feels like were about to become a fascit regime. I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!!!

When did I mention Bush?

Answer 1

Excellent point, and excellent reference to 1984. I re-read that book a couple months back and it gave me the shivers.

Answer 2

Clinton wanted a even stronger patriot act than what we have now. Republicans in congress voted against what Clinton wanted.

I agree with most of this stuff. America is at war with terrorists and they don't wear uniforms.

http://www.cdt.org/security/usapatriot/19950426cnss-analysis.html

"On February 10, 1995, a counterterrorism bill drafted by the Clinton Administration was introduced in the Senate as S. 390 and in the House of Representatives as H.R. 896 ...

The legislation would:
1)authorize the Justice Department to pick and choose crimes to investigate and prosecute based on political beliefs and associations;

2)repeal the ancient provision barring the U.S. military from civilian law enforcement;

3)expand a pre-trial detention scheme that puts the burden of proof on the accused;

4)loosen the carefully-crafted rules governing federal wiretaps, in violation of the Fourth Amendment;

5) establish special courts that would use secret evidence to order the deportation of persons convicted of no crimes, in violation of basic principles of due process;

6) permit permanent detention by the Attorney General of aliens convicted of no crimes, with no judicial review;

7) give the President unreviewable power to criminalize fund-raising for lawful activities associated with unpopular causes;

8) renege on the Administration's approval in the last Congress of a provision to insure that the FBI would not investigate based on First Amendment activities; and

9) resurrect the discredited ideological visa denial provisions of the McCarran Walter Act to bar foreign speakers. "

Answer 3

Exactly! And did you know that there is no law in the country that says we have to pay federal income tax? Who do these people think they are in the first place?

Answer 4

Aloha

Answer 5

your bush derangement syndrome is acting up again

Answer 6

there's the door. don't let it hit ya where to good lord split ya.