Posted on 04/22/2015 10:40:00 AM PDT by yuffy
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday introduced a short bill that would extend key expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, a sign this extension could happen without any substantive talk about whether and how to reform these provisions.
The bill from McConnell and Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) would extend sections of the PATRIOT Act through 2020 that allow access to business records and roving surveillance. The business records provision is found in the controversial Section 215 of the bill, which has been used to justify access to phone records.
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Something we had in common with the Iraqis, but hey, you just don't go around invading Saudi Arabia.
He’s bought and paid for like the rest of them. He’ll be all for it, until tomorrow when he won’t, and then on Friday he’ll be for it again, etc, etc, etc.
Simply disgusting.
Plenty of supposed conservatives were fine with it when it was first proposed and passed. Too damned stupid to realize we should NEVER give the government more power under someone we support than we want it to have under someone we hate.
Since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution the specific power to deal with terrorism, RINO Senator McConnell should actually be proposing a terrorism amendment to the Constitution to the states. And if the states should choose to ratify his amendment, the he would reasonably have the constitutional authority do what he is trying to do concerning his vote-winning terrorism bill.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
Just for giggles, I went back to pre 2008 posts about the Patriot Act.
Absolutely amazing the craven jack boot licking freaked out ignorant raving some here had on anyone questioning it; histrionics ensued every time part of it was attacked or ruled against.
We need to get rid of it, completely.
No warrant = no surveillance, no searches, no NOTHING. Period
I was pointing it out since it has now come out that he and his supporters were the subject of a prosecutorial terror campaign waged by the Milwaukee DA in secret.
Perhaps he might have some “feelings” in the wake of that...
Well, they didn’t catch the Tsarnaev brothers... because they were too busy spying on REAL American patriots!
I know they won’t but those pukes had better sunset that mother effing monstrosity in June.
“Just for giggles, I went back to pre 2008 posts about the Patriot Act.”
The people need to trust their common sense more than the propaganda that too often emanates from the political establishment. As we become aware of this our opinions change.
Something else that conservatives are finally discovering and that is that the boot lickers of big global business are not your conservative friend. The global businesses want trade pacts intended to supersede our Constitution and want open borders and they want to eliminate this nuisance concept of sovereignty that gets in the way of their profits. They want surveillance of the serfs too.
There is another issue I’ve changed on. Unless we find a way to Constitutionally get big money out of our politics we will be screwed on such money making freedom stealing legislation as the Patriot Act. A good conservative friend has always told me we need public funding of elections, so that the impetus and power goes to individual citizens. Those candidates who can get volunteers to go door to door deserve to trump those with a few very deep pocket friends. The candidate that has the most support should win, not the one that brings in the most big donations from foreign countries.
Exactly.
Large corporations are no more trustworthy than governments.
The justification these Federal Conmen give for spying on their own citizens is to prevent domestic terrorism.
There would be no domestic terrorism if these same Conmen had not imported millions of mohammedans, against the wishes of the citizens.
But will they deport the mohammedans? No, it might hurt their feelings. So, they’ll just have to spy on us.
How about we deport both the mohammedans and the Conmen?
Mmmmmm, no thanks.
The Democrat in the D jersey would have been better than this Democrat in the R jersey. McConnell is the epitome of what’s wrong with the GOP.
Yet certain Liberal-Republicans keep telling us to “vote for the lesser of two evils.”
Re: “America died with the passage of the Patriot Act.”
I’d have to agree with you. I’ll never ever forgive b*stards Bush-Cheney for the Patriot Act. Never! The Act codified tyranny and, as was said at the time, the terrorists win if this passes. Of course, they added sunset clauses but they’re a joke. I hope Rand or someone steps up to filibuster.
You approve of the “lesser of two evils?”
You are the problem!
Be sure to ping “logicdesigner”
Are Americans safer now than they were before the Patriot Act? Was America made a better place by this law? These days, American citizens are puzzled where the line exists between government and terrorism. It seems the Patriot Act has only blurred that distinction.
It’s not “terrorism” if the government does it.
At least that seems to be about the only distinction anyone can point me to, here or overseas.
662 overseas bases in 38 foreign countries and God knows how many asshats with badges running around this one.
Lousy idea.
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