sanders seeks repeal of part of Patriot Act

Burlington Free Press ^ | 12/21/02 | Adam Silverman

[JimVT]

Election politicking starts early for Vermont's resident Socialist Congressman-for-life.

Typical of this Gannett rag, one has to read into the tenth paragraph to learn that the bill passed the House 357-66 and the Senate 98-1 (I forgot who the Senate idiot was).

Notice he brought along two librarians who spout the liberal line but no local FBI agent or anyone else who might want to speak to the matter of preventing another terrorist attack.

I'm ready to give law enforcement some more tools to help.

But then of course, I'm not going to the library to learn how to cook up a botulism brew.

But I'd sure like to know if someone else does.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[galt-jw]

to repeal part of an anti-terrorism law that gives the FBI broad powers to monitor what books a person borrows from a library or buys from a store.

Leave borders open, yet violate civil rights to a degree not seen since the rise of East Germany.

[galt-jw]

hahahaha. that's rich.

[hoosierham]

There were 98 Senate idiots.

The CIA, FBI, amnd police HAD all the tools they need(ed) , but were PREVENTED from using those tools by officials like the clintons who insisted all crime stems from the vast right-wing conspiracy. The Two black Islamic snipers proved that since the police were so focused on looking for a white gun nut.

[Dakotabound]

The essence of what being a conservative is about, from my point of view, is get government out of the picture, don't get government involved in our lives.

Wow, Bernie Sanders "gets" this for this particular moment...why don't conservatives?

[MigrantOkie]

Great, Bush and his new world order cronies are going to make me join the ACLU.

[Always A Marine]

I agree with Sanders on this issue, or rather this strange bedfellow for once agrees with me. Issues stand or fall on their own merits regardless of which people stand on which side, and personalities should have no impact upon the issue of liberty. I don't want to live in anybody's police state -- neither Bernie's, nor yours, nor mine.

[galt-jw]

cause conservatives as we knew them never really existed. we just thought they did. but, after checking the record and seeing where we are today, apparently what we thought was conservatism meant creeping socialism.

[templar]

. I don't want to live in anybody's police state --

You don't understand. Clinton's gone and the Democrats are finished. A Police State is fine as long as it's administered by Republicans; Even desireable.

[dighton]

. . .violate civil rights to a degree not seen since the rise of East Germany.

In your dreams.

Sean Penn just returned from Iraq, having given aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein. Please account for his non-arrest, non-beating-up, and non-dragging off to the gulag.

[Dakotabound]

Ah, but when the Dems come into power again (and they will, of course), then they will have the authority to look up who checked out "Let Freedom Ring," and legal right to know the identity of anti-dem posters on FreeRepublic.com.

And there will be no one left to speak up.

[metesky]

Always use cash to buy your subversive reading materials.

I do.

[JimRed]

Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said Friday that he will introduce legislation shortly after Congress reconvenes in January to repeal part of an anti-terrorism law that gives the FBI broad powers to monitor what books a person borrows from a library or buys from a store.

As the old saying goes, "even a stopped clock is right twice a day". Radical Socialists like Sanders are no real danger to our republic if they are kept out of the loop on security topics. But they're not always automatically wrong on everything!

[AF68]

Agents can also ask about library patrons' computer usage.

Anyone who uses one of those vile library computers without wearing surgical gloves is a fool. The primary contaminant on public access computer keyboards is urine. Even the bacterium which causes plague has been discovered on some samples which were analyzed.

[JimVT]

"So, you're willing to suspend most of the Bill of Rights in the name of fighting {insert politically popular enemy of the day here}?"

Man....that is a stretchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[BlackbirdSST]

Sean Penn just returned from Iraq, having given aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein. Please account for his non-arrest, non-beating-up, and non-dragging off to the gulag.

Elitism. You try it, see where you end up! Blackbird.

[dighton]

You try it, see where you end up!

All sorts of bozos, famous and otherwise, have given aid and comfort to Saddam. I don't see any of them dragged off to the camps.