“it’s not an unreasonable intrusion.”
It is funny that 99% of Free Republic was cheering for Patriot Act back then, calling libtards as anti-Americans for not going with the fed gubmint schemes.
I don’t have an issue with the NSA spying on anyone outside of the United States. They have no business spying on American citizens on U.S. soil.
And before anyone jumps on me about naturalized terrorists, I don’t think we should be naturalizing anyone who abides by Sharia law. Racist? Yeah, and? Know any other religions whose adherents want to kill us?
“It is funny that 99% of Free Republic was cheering for Patriot Act back then, calling libtards as anti-Americans for not going with the fed gubmint schemes.”
There were many of us who opposed the so called Patriot Act on this forum. I think 99% is a bit high, but yes there were many Freepers who supported it.
>>It is funny that 99% of Free Republic was cheering for Patriot Act back then, calling libtards as anti-Americans for not going with the fed gubmint schemes.<<
I was part of the 1% and I haven’t changed my opinion.
after 9/11/01 the responsible agencies definitely needed to be restructured and George Bush was a good one to tackle the problem because he used the military and intelligence leaders to make it happen.
But, since then all sorts of changes incurred to make the system dangerous to the everyday citizen. As an example, when Bush left office, NSA could only monitor calls which had a foreign leg. Now both legs can be domestic. That is a big difference.
I wasn't cheering it but will admit I trusted the gov not to intrude on my privacy. I also trusted the gov not to allow this once great country to be taken over by an evil usurper with their full support and approval. I trusted the GOP not to keep putting up obvious losers and not pimp for communism. I trusted the SCOTUS not to "evade" the eligibility question. I trusted our leaders to keep our Constitution and freedoms sacred. I was naive, stupid and very wrong.
It is funny that 99% of Free Republic was cheering for Patriot Act back then, calling libtards as anti-Americans for not going with the fed gubmint schemes.
I believe the same as Scalia and quite frankly, Scalia’s ego has always scared me
I was here and there was a lot of debate about the patriot act.