Ten Problems With The Patriot Act
1. The government can conduct "sneak and peek" searches in which agents can enter your home or business and search your belongings without informing you until long after it's done.
2. Government agencies can force libraries and bookstores to divulge the titles of books you have purchased or borrowed and can put certain books on a watch list and demand the names of any person buying or borrowing that book. The library or bookstore can be prosecuted for informing you that the search occurred or that an inquiry has been made.
3. Federal agents are authorized to use hidden devices to trace your telephone calls or e-mails even if you are not suspected of any crime. The FBI is permitted to use it's Magic Lantern technology to monitor everything you do on your computer including the websites you visit down to every single keystoke you make.
4. Government agents are permitted to arrest and detain individuals because of "suspicion" of terrorist activities and hold them indefinately and without an attorney.
5. Federal agents can conduct full investigations on American citizens who have exercised their First Amendment rights by writing letters to editors or congressmen or attending peaceful rallies.
6. Law enforcement agents are permitted to listen to the discussions between prisoners and their legal counsel in violation of their Constitutional Rights.
7. Terrorism suspects may be tried in secret military tribunals where the defendant has no right to a public trial, no right to a jury, no right to confront the evidence or their accusers and no right to appeal the decision. In short, the Constitution does not apply.
8. Allows the CIA to spy on American citizens, a power that has always been denied to this agency that is supposed to monitor international espionage.
9. In addition to the Patriot Act, the Bush administration has also given us Operation TIPS where citizens are encouraged to spy on their neighbors and report to the authorities. You better hope you haven't alienated any of your neighbors! Fortunately, Operation TIPS seems to have been recalled to the factory....at least for now.
10. Total Information Awareness (TIA) will link government and commercial databases (such as banking or credit card info) so that the DOD can immediately put it's finger on any peice of information about you that it wants to.
You have been reading excerpts from "USA Patriot Act and Nazi Enabling Act"
and the Whispering Campaign at psstpsstpsst.blogspot.com They won't listen to the shouting so start whispering the truth.
2. Government agencies can force libraries and bookstores to divulge the titles of books you have purchased or borrowed and can put certain books on a watch list and demand the names of any person buying or borrowing that book. The library or bookstore can be prosecuted for informing you that the search occurred or that an inquiry has been made.
3. Federal agents are authorized to use hidden devices to trace your telephone calls or e-mails even if you are not suspected of any crime. The FBI is permitted to use it's Magic Lantern technology to monitor everything you do on your computer including the websites you visit down to every single keystoke you make.
4. Government agents are permitted to arrest and detain individuals because of "suspicion" of terrorist activities and hold them indefinately and without an attorney.
5. Federal agents can conduct full investigations on American citizens who have exercised their First Amendment rights by writing letters to editors or congressmen or attending peaceful rallies.
6. Law enforcement agents are permitted to listen to the discussions between prisoners and their legal counsel in violation of their Constitutional Rights.
7. Terrorism suspects may be tried in secret military tribunals where the defendant has no right to a public trial, no right to a jury, no right to confront the evidence or their accusers and no right to appeal the decision. In short, the Constitution does not apply.
8. Allows the CIA to spy on American citizens, a power that has always been denied to this agency that is supposed to monitor international espionage.
9. In addition to the Patriot Act, the Bush administration has also given us Operation TIPS where citizens are encouraged to spy on their neighbors and report to the authorities. You better hope you haven't alienated any of your neighbors! Fortunately, Operation TIPS seems to have been recalled to the factory....at least for now.
10. Total Information Awareness (TIA) will link government and commercial databases (such as banking or credit card info) so that the DOD can immediately put it's finger on any peice of information about you that it wants to.
You have been reading excerpts from "USA Patriot Act and Nazi Enabling Act"
and the Whispering Campaign at psstpsstpsst.blogspot.com They won't listen to the shouting so start whispering the truth.
posted by Anonymous at 8:32 AM
2 Comments:
OHHHH,OHHHH, we are in big trouble Katherine, there goes the land of the free, there goes demcracy,and asshole and his administration, want to democratise the rest of the world. I say dump the illiterate moran, and give us back the land of the free, our friends and neighbours, not assholes who scream to the world you are either with us or against us in their illegal war for profit and murder. A Country where we are welcome, where there are no illegal demands on that friendship.
I pray that in 2006 the dems take back the house and Senate, or I dont want to think about, what they can do to our World Community,in our name. It is horrofying to think about, what kind of world we are going to leave to our children and their children.
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