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
“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.