Speaking as a Prosecutor of 25 years ... yes absolutely. And shame on anyone that supported the Patriot Act. That one Act has turned our Government into our adversary.
Yes. We are pretty much toast. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Game, set, and match for our government.
I didn’t support the Patriot Act but I am ashamed that I wasn’t paying closer attention when they passed it. That one sure blew up in our faces.
“Speaking as a Prosecutor of 25 years ... yes absolutely. And shame on anyone that supported the Patriot Act. That one Act has turned our Government into our adversary.”
I have to admit, I was fine with it as I reasoned “it was very temporary step” necessary during a time of war. I was wrong and it is a terrible infringement on our rights. I was reading the other day where a woman was being frisked and she was sobbing uncontrollably at the humiliation and the pig that frisked her finished and simply walked away...no heart, no soul, just like the Gestapo were. People have no idea but the same thing as happened in Nazi Germany can happen here and is already begun.
I remember arguing vociferously with my circle of friends, mostly evangelical conservatives. they simply could not conceive of a circumstance where all the power being focused on our “enemies” could ever be refocused on them. When I pointed out to them that the Attorney General could unilaterally declare them as enemy combatants and terrorists, they just shook their heads like I was crazy.
I truly wish I had been wrong.
With or without the Patriot Act you support the indictment of George Zimmerman.
That is the problem.