Tomorrow is the anniversary of the USA PATRIOT Act a textbook example of how the United States federal government expands its power. An emergency happens legitimate or otherwise. The media playing its dutiful role as goad for greater government oversight demands something must be done. Government power is massively expanded with little regard for whether or not what is being done is efficacious to say nothing of the overall impact on our nations civil liberties.
No goals are posted because if targets are hit this would necessitate the ending or scaling back of the program. Instead the program becomes normalized. There are no questions asked about whether the program is accomplishing what it set out to do. It is now simply a part of American life and there is no going back.
The American public largely accepts the USA PATRIOT Act as a part of civic life as immutable perhaps even more so than the Bill of Rights. However this act passed in the dead of night with little to no oversight in a panic after the biggest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor is not only novel it is also fundamentally opposed to virtually every principle on which the United States of America was founded. It might not be going anywhere anytime soon but patriots liberty lovers and defenders of Constitutional government should nonetheless familiarize themselves with the onerous provisions of this law which is nothing short of a full-throttle attack on the American republic.
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Tomorrow is the anniversary of the USA PATRIOT Act a textbook example of how the United States federal government expands its power. An emergency happens legitimate or otherwise. The media playing its dutiful role as goad for greater government oversight demands something must be done. Government power is massively expanded with little regard for whether or not what is being done is efficacious to say nothing of the overall impact on our nations civil liberties.
No goals are posted because if targets are hit this would necessitate the ending or scaling back of the program. Instead the program becomes normalized. There are no questions asked about whether the program is accomplishing what it set out to do. It is now simply a part of American life and there is no going back.
The American public largely accepts the USA PATRIOT Act as a part of civic life as immutable perhaps even more so than the Bill of Rights. However this act passed in the dead of night with little to no oversight in a panic after the biggest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor is not only novel it is also fundamentally opposed to virtually every principle on which the United States of America was founded. It might not be going anywhere anytime soon but patriots liberty lovers and defenders of Constitutional government should nonetheless familiarize themselves with the onerous provisions of this law which is nothing short of a full-throttle attack on the American republic.
Continue reading The USA PATRIOT Act: The Story of an Impulsive Bill that Eviscerated Americas Civil Liberties at Ammo.com.