The Iraq War lies and the budget are getting MSM attention, but the (un)Patriot(ic) Act is still in play, and scarier than ever.
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On parallel tracks, Congress is moving toward renewing the Patriot Act and, far from scraping the civil liberty abuses licensed in the panicky and overwrought original, is tempted to add new ones, such as placing some FBI demands for personal data beyond judicial review. And if the Supreme Court approves, the administration is poised to start cranking detainees through newly gimmicked military tribunals that look likely to be only a step up, if that, from drumhead justice.
In the name of protecting us, this administration is abandoning our historic values, cramping our personal freedoms, violating our privacy, making a mockery of justice and asserting a right for the president, as commander in chief, to ignore U.S. law if he wishes to.
Who is to protect us from our protectors?http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=418862&category=OPINION&newsdate=11/14/2005The Patriot Act is another topic that I recommend for inclusion in the Research Forum.
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