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Of course he will. He’s already re-authorized the original bill twice and voted to make it permanent. Why should we think he won’t join the majority of Dems and ‘Pugs to renew some of the law’s more controversial provisions in the coming days?
The probing will continue indefinitely.
The Patriot Act was created in the rabid aftermath of 9/11 and passed by a broad coalition of legislators who never even read the bill. It granted federal law enforcement bureaucracies a new range of surveillance powers previously considered unconstitutional by anyone who bothered to read the Fourth Amendment.
Read the rest of “Will Ed Royce Renew the Awful Patriot Act?”
never reading the bill .. sounds familer from the former house leader on the awfull health care bill . = we need to pass it so we can find out whats in it .. horray for the patriot act
Pinche Repug. We need more Ron Pauls and Russ Feingolds on both sides of the aisle. Ben Franklin “give up liberty for security” would spit on us from his grave.
no no no save us and give us more ammo to use on pinche locos terrorist . who want to blow us up .. ben franklin would say FIRE AWAY ..
*Sadly, there are bad folks out there. Sadly, they are not just out of work Senior Citizens that need some added income to survive. Sadly, the electronic age has created grand holes of security issues which are very difficult to control. Sadly, the days of hiring 100 people to do one guys job by the Government…..is over for the time being. Sadly, we need a method to find and detain bad folks…….and we need the necessary tools to do it – in the best possible way.
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