What are your views on the Patriot Act?

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.03162:

This is a pretty big deal for me personally. I do not agree with any aspect of this bill what so ever. It does absolutely nothing positive for this country. I will wait a bit to explain why I feel this way but I want the topic to get talked over a bit before I explain.

No more Patriot Act. It's in direct contradiction of the Constitution.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Abolish Patriot Act and everything will be okay.

Not quite, but almost.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

unfortunately when the patriot act was voted on it was sudden and America was in a place that if anyone had really raised a fight on it it would have been political suicide. i think only one senator voted against it (Russ Fiengold). i really think this was not politician corruption it was a bad situation and they should have read it and taken a stand but i dont believe there was (for the most part) any plotting

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Any law or act passed in the heat of fear will not be a good one. Reaction is a bad way to make policy. The Patriot act is like the sedition act only with much less reason.

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If you set out to fail and do, have you?

It's unconstitutional and should be repealed immediately!

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

The Patriot Act is clearly unconstitutional and the name of the act itself is a travesty.

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Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

Just like "Homeland Security." When have Americans ever referred to our country as "the homeland"? It sounds like something some fascist or socialist state would say - like "the Fatherland."

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

All of this comes from people living in fear. Make sure you explain that to your friends and family. It was the American citizen that got the Patriot Act in place.