Bush's Patriot Act that takes away our Constitutional rights of habeas corpus and expands the government's rights to unreasonable search and seizure is simply too inefficient.
According to Bush, federal agents have arrested 400 people due to Patriot Act provisions and more than half have been convicted. (Refrence:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/09/bush.patriot/)
But what about the other 200 who are not convicted? We need to expand the Patriot Act to make their thoughts illegal, too. The next time you are speaking with the neo-conservatives make sure you mention that one.
BUT there's more. According to DOJ statistics from 2003, 2870 Muslim aliens were held in detention centers. (Reference:
http://www.sen.ca.gov/sor/REPORTS/REPORTS_BY_SUBJ/GOVERNMENT/PATRIOT4-02.PDF) BUT getting back to Bush, only 400 people were charged with crimes under Patriot Act provisions. This means that less than 15% of those Muslims imprisoned were charged with Patriot Act crimes! What about the other 85%? Clearly, something has to be done about them not being charged but meanwhile languishing in prison for 2 years.
So here is another recommendation. For anyone not charged, allow Homeland Security to mistreat them by placing a hot crucible in nether regions until they confess of being a witch, err I mean terrorist. Note that this is NOT torture since torture is organ failure. (Reference:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/050530ta_talk_hertzberg). For anyone admitting terrorism, get them to name the other 12 members in their sleeper coven, err I mean terrorist cell.
We also need special witnesses. Those who can see the terrorism by looking into people's eyes or examining their hands or by smelling their necks or checking if their names are Muhammed. I have heard that Ann Coulter knows how to do this, so we could really use her for the effort! (Reference:
http://encyclopedia.lockergnome.com/i/b/Ann_Coulter)
After all is said and done, we will really be able to start arresting MANY more Americans for terrorism and crimes against the Patriot Act. And we can finally get back to being a FREE nation once again.
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