Wait, Hang on, Are you saying that, come on, seriously?
Shocking, Shocking news! Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
This quote quite frankly makes me fucking want to puke!
“For over 200 years, this Nation has adhered to the rule of law _ with unparalleled success. A shift to a Nation based on extra-constitutional authority is prohibited, as well as ill-advised,” she wrote.
Seriously! 200 hundred years ago we didn’t face religious nuts that wanted to kill us! We didn’t face tyranny, oppression and the ilk that comes with it! I won’t stand for this!!
We really just need to have these judges hanged and quartered (not in that order) The audacity of them to defy our pResident! The liberals have sunk to a new low today in American history! this has to be another one of those homo loving liberal commie tree hugging climate fearing, prius driving Judges that declared another part of God’s Gift to Freedom aka the Patriot Act unconstitutional.
I’m sure a few loyal readers will join with me and denounce this outrageous decision! I know that the countless hours of constitutional law research I have performed on the interenet coupled with my business degree you will agree with my conclusion that I know way more than this American hating human piece of wasted flesh!
Damn, How do they expect me to fight terrorism with my hands tied behind my back?
Tags: Bush, Civil Rights
The decision from a Clinton appointee should come as no surprise.
Our break with England was not a separation from a cruel tyrant but from what was (after the Treaty) the second most free nation in the world.
During the First World War, the Kaiser might have been misguided but was not evil.
The Second World War was a different story and there were a lot of infringements on Liberty. Mail from GIs was censored as was a lot of first class mail to and from other nations. An activity as benign (and potentially beneficial) as amateur radio was shut down for the duration.
We were dealing with true evil at the time and took the steps to assure victory.
Between the wars, Secretary of State Stimson (a Hoover appointee) halted the interception and decoding of foreign diplomatic traffics. It was a moral issue. As Secretary of War under FDR, Stimson was less fastidious. MAGIC was doing its thing with diplomatic and military traffic.
The war continued in a subdued form after the formal instruments of surrender was signed but the Soviets continued with their subversion and espionage.
Now the Evil Empire is no more and few but a few doddering diehards believe that communism is an historical imperative. Yet the new enemy that we face is amorphous and far less restrained be vestiges of decency than our past foes.
How do we deal with them? Should we wait until there is another outrage, one that eclipses 9/11 in enormity and then make a retaliatory strike on Mecca that will ensure global jihad?
Or should we marshall our technical resources to provide early warnings of attack?
Should we be proactive or simply reactionary, and have any ‘law enforcement’ (after the fact) hampered by expanded due process concerns for the perpetrators?
Translation: your job is NOT to fight terrorism, your job is to submit to any surveillance your government says is for your own good.
Bet you won’t be so gung ho on all this surveillance when Hillary is President.
Clintons fault…
wow, Way to sum it up Art.
I personally like my approach to call them names and belittle them as American haters. But your approach is much better.
Muddy the waters, make crazy comparisons and belive that someone appointed by a president 10 with a Republican majority in congress that didn’t block the nominee as the one most likely at fault.
but on a serious note, thanks for commenting and stopping by.
Don, it aint your hands they are worried about. SHOUT IT OUT!
TPA is UN-CON-STI-TU-TION-AL!