Define the patriot act?

Question

What is it? Do you agree with it and why or why not?

Answer 1

Fascism, the Patriot Act violates 4 of the 10 amendments of the bill of rights.

The Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security have broadened federal powers and seriously infringed upon fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution. One of the most dangerous aspects of the Patriot Act is that it empowers law enforcement to act outside of the system of checks and balances so crucial to our Constitutional republic.

As a side note a few more observations about our corrupt government.

They have grossly usurped their powers by intimidating Congress into enacting the Patriot Act, decimating Habeas Corpus and due process by illegally detaining Jose Padilla [an American citizen] for three years, and violating virtually everything for which the Bill of Rights stands by illegally detaining, torturing and murdering accused terrorists at Abu Gharib, Guantanamo Bay, and other undisclosed locations around the world.

They violated Posse Comitatus in New Orleans and have since stated their intention to crush it by deploying US military personnel on a wide scale in future domestic disasters.

They have consistently rewarded or promoted those members of their Royal Court who have committed criminal or grossly incompetent acts.

They have pillaged the public Treasury, dispersing tax monies to their cronies and collaborators in their corrupt schemes. They have created an astronomical national debt which will hang from the necks of future generations as a millstone of astounding proportions.

Answer 2

"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." (Julius Caesar)

That pretty much sums it up right there. When will you sheeple wake up? When they start slaughtering you off one by one? Oh wait a minute, our government has been doing that for years, and you still believe in "patriotism". I suppose all of you "patriots" support the Real ID Act as well. When they come knocking on your door to embed you and yours w/ "the chip", I assume you'll do so w/ open arms. Now be a good little sheep and obey.

Answer 3

This is a document that bascially destroys the spirit of the US Constituion. It invaldates the sixth amedment (the right to a fair and speedy trial). It destroys the fifth amendment (not being deprived of life or liberty with due process of the law.) The act even allows the government to search Americans houses and papers without a warrant, section 802 (does the fourth amendment ring a bell to anyone).

But heck, I am not the only one that has said that parts of the Patriot Act violates the Constitution. A federal court has also said this.

Answer 4

we do not have an excellent variety of illegals attempting to get in the process in Canada.. and we've been at peace for see you later with them that we've not ever had a concentration on protection there.. there is by no potential been a choose... so the Southern border is unquestionably plenty safer than the Northern.. in so some distance as terrorists attempting to get in the process is worried.... that could be a good bit in the back of up North.

Answer 5

The Patriot Act (the full name is the USA Patriot Act, or "Uniting and Strengthening America Act by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001") was enacted by the U.S. Congress on October 26, 2001, at the request of President George Bush in response to the terrorist acts of September 11. It gives controversial new powers to the Justice Department in terms of domestic and international surveillance of American citizens and others within its jurisdiction. According to its sponsors, the Act was needed to address a situation that had not existed before - the presence of terrorists within national borders - and the need to apprehend and prosecute them, hopefully before rather than after they acted.
Among the Act's provisions, flowing out of the government's ability to legally tap telephone lines in certain cases, is the ability to intercept Internet messages through its Carnivore program. Theoretically, the government has the ability to intercept all messages that are "relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation," a lower standard than the previous one in which a crime had to have been committed. The Act allows the guidelines to apply to all surveillance cases, not just those of suspected terrorists.

I agree with it and over time, with the benefit of calm reflection, it can be fine tuned to appease the ACLU to an acceptable degree.
It is a neccessary component of a defense matrix that can be responsibly deployed in order to protect the American people.
I would be much more concerned if there were an attack while this capability was available to law enforcement and not used for political reasons.

Answer 6

A fascist document written by the neocons that makes it legal for the U.S. government to behave like a Stalinist and Nazi totalitarian regime and to strip all Citizens and foreign nationals of civil liberties and human rights.

Answer 7

Harrison Ford.
Yeah, he did an awesome acting job as agent Jack Ryan in The Patriot.

Answer 8

For me, it's a non-issue.

Let me break something to you. Your life is most likely boring. Cheating on your wife? To the outside person, boring. Smoking weed in your basement? To those outside, boring. Posting on your website all of those things the evil US government is covering up about 9/11? Boring, and for most people, makes you a loon to boot.

I know that you may think that the government is out to get you, but in the very vast majority of cases, they don't care about you one bit. "Oh, but they can see what library books I have checked out." So what. I have bought over the internet Mao's and Che Guevara's essays on guerilla warfare. Why? To see if Jihadists have anything in common with these writings. My opinion is they don't, on many levels. If the government wants to talk to me about why I bought these books, spending their time and money on me to learn my little opinion on this, hey, it's their time and money they are pissing away.

I spent 9 years in the military, and each shop I worked in had a secure telephone. I ALWAYS assumed that someone could be listening, be it Cuban sympathizers in south Florida, who know who in Arizona, or China or North Korea in South Korea. I didn't care. I got used to it. And guess what? I never let anything out that shouldn't have gotten out. And I lived a happy and healthy life.

Quite honestly, I couldn't give a **** if the government listened in on ALL of my phone calls, opened ALL of my mail and packages, did whatever to moniter me. Why? BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THAT MY LIFE IS BORING!!!!

Yours is too.

Sorry to break it to you. Unless you are one of a very few number of people, the government really has less than no desire to waste man-hours peeking in on your half-baked conspiracy theories. You, like the vast majority of people in this country, pose no danger to anyone except your kids.

Answer 9

I agree with it. the only ones with anything to fear are terrorists. I' wouldn't care if I had to strip just to get on a plane, then you'd know no raghead was gonna murder the entire flight women and children included.

Answer 10

It is a needed piece of legislation. It is not taking anyone's rights away. NoName is a liar and a spinmeister.