What? Are you suggesting OUR government would abuse their authority? I'm shocked. Where oh where would you get such an opinion?
Posted on 05/30/2015 8:34:50 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Rand Paul plans to force the expiration of the PATRIOT Act Sunday by refusing to allow Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to expedite debate on a key surveillance bill.
In a statement to POLITICO Saturday, Paul warned that he would not consent to any efforts to pass either an extension of current law or the USA Freedom Act, a reform bill passed overwhelmingly by the House earlier this month.
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LOL he’s going to get burned badly.
I’m not laughing. I don’t want it extended either.
Good...enough with the Stalinist spying on citizens.
But Paul argues that bill actually expands the PATRIOT Act
I'd be very surprised if that isn't completely true.
Fourteen year later and I’ll bet no one in Congress has read it yet.
As big a WHACK JOB as his father...maybe bigger.
GOOD!
If the Patriot Act were effective at all we would have stopped the Boston Marathon Bombings.
We had intel from Russia... and didn’t actually do the surveilance needed to stop two men that should have been under active surveilance due to legitamate probable cause.
The problem is that he wants to grandstand and pander on the issue than deal with the parts of it that people have actual problems with. In the end he’ll get nothing.
I’m with Paul on this one. The Patriot Act has done far more harm to American liberty than the damned Muslim terrorists.
In the end, he'll probably get it in his "end". The "Hind End".
He has shown himself to be a political opportunist and part of the very GOP establishment that he promised to run against.
Rand has none of the economic and monetary brilliance of his father. At least Ron Paul was a true independent and was despised by both political parties.
The mooselimb terrorists have murdered thousands of Americans, how has the Patriot Act taken a single American life?
Exactly what SPECIFIC HARM has the Patriot Act done to American Liberty?
Both you and paul, lay in the bushes, and shake your rattles as a belly crawler will.
Too true. Nowadays the way a bill is labeled, you can pretty well be assured it means the exact opposite of its name.
Patriot Act - We're Spying on Citizens, but Totally Missed Seeing that Whole ISIS Thingy Act
Affordable Care Act - Yousa Gonna Die Broke Act
Net Neutrality Act - All Your Website Belong to Us Act
Personally I’m a lot more concerned with the way our government is seeding America with imported muslims and God knows who else is simply coming in unannounced.
FUNSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m with Paul on this one. The Patriot Act has done far more harm to American liberty than the damned Muslim terrorists.
The mooselimb terrorists have murdered thousands of Americans, how has the Patriot Act taken a single American life?
Exactly what SPECIFIC HARM has the Patriot Act done to American Liberty?
Both you and paul, lay in the bushes, and shake your rattles as a belly crawler will.
Umm lets see..how about the 4th amendment???
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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