The (UN)Patriot Act II hasn't gererated much attention form the mainstream media at all, nor from so called "conservatives". The bill was passed by congress with a voice vote (hmmmmm?) around Thanksgiving time, and the bill was
coincidentaly signed into law on a Saturday (hmmmm?), with the 13th being one of the biggest news stories of the year. Anyone of those by themselves could be easily explained away, but people need to put the pieces together . . .
this bill was purposely prepared, passed by congress, and signed by the president in such a manner as to not draw the attention of Americans to the passage of the law. It's amazing how asleep the American populace is . . .
This law allows for such actions as the opening of any and all financial recored from any "financial institutions" (now REdefined as casinos, post offices, and stockbrokers, as well as tradional money lenders) without all those messy supenas. And here's the biggest kicker . . . they can look at ANYONE'S records for any reason. Suspician of terror is no longer a prerequisit. Oh, and there's more, but you should look it up and find it yourself.
This isn't my country anymore. I just live here.
Damnit, that's unbelivebale.
I just found out about Patriot act II. I can't belive that this didn't make front page news on FR.
I also read recently that the Total Information Awareness program is also still alive. It's called MATRIX, now.
This situation is FUBAR.
Sorry, I'm writing nonsense. This is just too unreal for me.