[RandallFlagg]

Can someone pretty please list all these "Civil Liberties" everyone keeps talking about lately? Then, show their relevance in our Constitution.

[mysterio]

Ok, this would apply to the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment used to protect us from unlawful search and seizure. It used to require a warrant if authorities wanted to snoop through your personal belongings and transactions. This bill says they can snoop with no warrant.

[Axenolith]

How about rephrasing that to "What authority is granted the Feds to know everything including the length of the dump we took this morning"...

Seriously RF, secure in persons and property definitly would apply to transaction records. If you actually DON'T want the terrorism, or crime for that matter, kill the people who commit it, don't screw the law abiding citizens...

[Action-America]

The primary focus of Dubya's domestic policy has been the systematic elimination of the checks and balances that have been woven all throughout our Constitution.

I can understand how he might want such powers for his own Presidency. But, either through intent or ignorance, he is ignoring or doesn't seem to realize that sooner of later, there will be a Rat in the Whitehouse and all of those checks and balances that he destroyed will no longer be there to protect us from the Rats.

Those checks and balances are there to protect Americans from an all-powerful administration, that has no scruples. What Dubya and th' boyz have already done is a travesty. Just imagine what Hillary will do, should she ever get elected. She will use those unchecked powers, that Dubya created, against her political enemies, which will certainly include FreeRepublic and FReepers and when her enemies are disposed of, she will become Queen Hillary - all thanks to Dubya's dismantling of our constitutional checks and balances.

It's time for Republican voters to accept the fact that the GOP has been hijacked by RINOs and that most of our party's elected officials, most especially Dubya, are intent on consolidating all power in the hands of a few elite in the federal government.

In other words, it's time to replace Dubya with a real conservative.