I trust Cruz to make sound decisions based on our Constitution. All of the privacy in the world means nothing if you are dead from a terrorist attack.
I am sick of this terrorist boogie man crap. If we give up freedom for false security we will not get it back. If you want to live in a police state, move to one.
Most, if not all of the Patriot Act (interesting name for legislation that violates the Constitution six ways to Sunday)
is worthless for its supposed purpose. Ditto for Homeland Security, which is just another step towards nationalized domestic cops.
Don’t buy into the notion that ANY of this is for the purpose of preventing or dealing with EXTERNAL security threats. It’s not, never was and most importantly, NEVER will be.
We have in place the agencies and capabilities to do that. But they are all corrupted, they share as little info with each other as possible and are in a perpetual pissing contest. And that is why 9/11 happened, not because we didn’t have the Patriot Act and Homeland Security (Big Brother is watching you. He doesn’t give a damn about foreign terrorists.)
If any of this mattered, they wouldn’t be bringing in thousands of Syrian and Muslim “refugees” in semi secret and placing them all over the country. None of these so called refugees have been vetted. So why in God’s name is a police state that watches only Americans necessary for “security”?? The US government, for all practical purposes, is supplying the manpower for subversive cells all over the country.
But, hell yeah, we need the Patriot Act to track American born Constitutionalists.
That clarion call would be SO much clearer if: the borders were CLOSED, illegals caught/removed, the Muslim Brotherhood were not inner sanctum to the W.H., Dumbo was not running arms to the Syrians/etc., if the Boston bombed was thwarted....
Yet, I can point to numerous instances of govt, once given power, has overstepped their ‘initial’ “It will go to XYZ”: seat belts, income taxes (hell TAXES in general. Tolls, fees...), smoking...Hell, tell me how ‘safe and few’ abortions are these days!?
“I trust Cruz to make sound decisions based on our Constitution. All of the privacy in the world means nothing if you are dead from a terrorist attack.”
This is the great thing about Cruz being a highly (Harvard) educated lawyer. He is well aware of the relatively unknown clause in the Constitution that says that the government doesn’t have to honor the Bill of Rights if it thinks it is in our best interests.