While browsing online, reading one news site after another, I stumbled on this. AntiWar.com, a very popular antiwar, pro liberty website dropped a bombshell. It reported that Republican Representative Mike Rogers introduced H.R. 67,on January 5, 2011, which will extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 until February 29, 2012. According to the article, there is very little opposition from either party. Patriot Act is highly unconstitutional (see here, here, here and here) and it is used to terrorize the American people (see here, here, here and here). The bill itself was rammed down the throats of the American people only 45 days after 9/11, without any debate or most if not all the politicians even able to read and understand what they were voting for. It allowed the law enforcement agencies to write their own warrants, and/or tap telephone lines, read medical and financial records, without the knowledge of the person suspected.
Ever since its passage it has been supported by both Democratic and Republican Party. Although, made this a lot harder to build serious opposition, it didn't stop 401 communities in 43 states, including seven state-wide to pass resolutions condemning provisions in the PATRIOT Act. If you stop by and ask an average American on the street how they feel about their government tapping into their phone lines and using sneak and peek searches when they're not even home, most will reply with anger and frustration.
Many people who were against the PATRIOT Act hoped that Obama woud work to repeal it. They should have known that Obama breaks one promise after another. Barack used to support a repeal in 2003, voted for extensions in 2006, and since becoming President, signed another extension, this one allowing three sections of the PATRIOT Act to continue for at least one more year. These provisions allowed the government to "obtain roving wiretaps over multiple communication devices, seize suspects' records without their knowledge, and conduct surveillance of someone deemed suspicious but without any known ties to an organized terrorist group".
As you can see, politicians on both sides of the false left-right paradigm do not care too much about preserving civil liberties, they love to grow the government and install more cameras on every street corner, and listen to everything you do and say. Now that more and more Americans are starting Tea Parties, protesting big government spending, they need to put a bigger effort in securing their own civil liberties, because if they don't hold their politicians accountable, soon enough their own right to free speech and protest will be silenced. Call your elected representative and them to vote NO on H.R. 67.
Poster Comment:
I am with the Tea Party on this one, indeed!
