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Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker
The USA Patriot Act is not what you've been told it its, does not empower government in the way you've been spooked to believe, and is not the threat you might really really want it to be. To equate this provincial bull***** with the USA Patriot Act is either deliberate conflation of two entirely different things, or sheer, rapturous ignorance.
JP
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Have
you read it?
Here's a link:
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism/hr3162.php
And a link to Patriot II
http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/downloads/Story_01_020703_Doc_1.pdf
And a page full of links to analysis of the Patriot Act by various groups:
http://www.cdt.org/security/usapatriot/analysis.shtml
And another:
http://civilliberty.about.com/cs/patriotact/
I've even read some of the pieces defending it. The general line of defense is "it's all stuff they do already" - yes, but the patriot act removes large portions of due process with the excuse that we're at war. It's defenders assume that it will only be used against people with bath towels wrapped around their heads, and they assume wrong.