you go girl! drive a stake into the heart of the bushie, uniparty deep state.
Strike a lethal blow to the globalist deep state now controlling us?
Never happen...
Ms Luna somewhat damaged her credibility as a conservative by bringing forth the Luna Bill, :This centered on whether the lower chamber should allow new parents in congress to vote remotely around the birth of their child. The majority of the GOP does not agree with surrendering one’s vote to a Proxy, who may vote their own way.
A bill that should have never been passed. Good luck getting rid of it.
It came pretty close to failing.
It’s now a mainstream conservative idea to get rid of this stuff. Trump will almost certainly agree.
The Government always takes advantage of the populace during a crisis, whether following 911 or during Covid, people lose freedoms.
‘Member when they said it would be temporary?
Funny how the re-authorization seems to be pretty much routine
The PA was very popular on the FR as I recall.
Tonight
I want to see if the Democrats vote for it.
she’s 100% right about this...but she won’t get much political support sadly.
GW Bush’s real ‘legacy’.
Rule of thumb -- If a law has a cutesy-poo acronym, it is evil.
Ironic.
Now look to see her involved in some sort of scandal in the coming months... /s
Excellent timing. Trump has been using FISA to monitor illegals and MS-13 gang members. The deMS-13 can take this opportunity to strike a blow to Trump’s unconstitutional deportations. See how easy it is?
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The charge made by the left against the PATRIOT Act is that it was rogue legislation. That was a complete inversion of the truth. The PATRIOT Act was an all-hands review in the wake of 911. Every federal agency with any involvement at all in law enforcement, intelligence or counterterrorism was involved. So were the relevant agencies in all the states, academic experts, the major tech companies that dealt in the relevant technologies, and anyone else you can think of. It was studied to death, lawyered to death, debated at great length, modified many times, and duly passed by Congress.
One might not like some of the results, but the one thing you can say without question is that it was NOT rogue legislation.
The tip of the iceberg for a lot of conservatives was the fact that many of the 911 conspirators were in the U.S. illegally (mostly overstaying their visas iirc), several had had minor brushes with law enforcement (e.g. traffic stops), and a couple were on terrorist watchlists. But Bill Clinton's newly installed firewalls prevented domestic law enforcement from sharing information with the FBI and counterintelligence. There was a lot of speculation on the right that this had been motivated by Clinton's own entanglements with foreign entities, particularly the illegal Clinton/Gore-DNC fundraising with its many foreign donors; it's possible that the Clinton crowd wanted to short circuit easy crosschecking, and an attempt to get a warrant could be cut off by the Clinton FBI and DOJ. (As happened to so many of the BillyJeff investigations, which got stalled because Janet Reno was playing mob lawyer, with the coverup as Job 1.) But for whatever reasons, there they were: the LEOs had several of the 911 jihadis, already on the terrorist watchlist, but the LEOs couldn't connect the dots.
But more fundamentally, technology had rocketed ahead since the last top-to-bottom review, the post-Watergate Church Committee. There were myriad issues involved, but I recall especially such things as the ACLU types arguing after 911 that if Mohammed al Mohammed bin Mohammed popped out of his cave in Afghanistan and made a quick telephone call (quick because he was not a dummy and knew perfectly well that drones were overhead) -- the call being monitored in real time and with a missile armed drone having already marked the target and waiting for the command to fire -- we couldn't listen in on the call and identify his contacts because the call might be pinged from satellite to satellite to various ground relay stations, one of which might be in the U.S., and that was enough of a nexus to classify interception of the call as domestic surveillance, which would require trooping to a judge for a search warrant. And on and on in that vein, because the ACLU is now in the criminal protection racket at home and the terrorist protection racket abroad.
I have the sense that the Bush administration dotted the i's and crossed the t's but that the Obama people blew through most of the safeguards. The illegal surveillance of Donald Trump and Trump associates starting in 2015 is the casus belli that we remember today, but the Obama misuse of electronic surveillance and misuse of individuals' personal information for political purposes started much earlier and was much more pervasive than that. Obama weaponized the IC.
So yes, the area needs a thorough review. But I still want the good guys to be able to zap the Mohammed al Mohammed bin Mohammed types when they venture out of their caves. And people on the terrorist watch list who get involved with local law enforcement shouldn't be protected because the ACLU doesn't think LEOs should be able to check. The systems are all computerized. It is as easy to bounce names off the terrorist watch list as it is to check license plates and registrations, and see if the car has been stolen.
I would like to see it gone as well, but if it were to somehow happen the countdown to the most egregious false-flag in history would start immediately. They’d have to teach people that they MUST be allowed to spy. Or else THIS is what happens.
Best thing I’ve heard all day. A two-fer. Give us our freedom and privacy back, and embarrass the crap out of Bush 43.
Yes! Patriot Act is just a nice title for a deepstate nefarious tool.