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Government needs the flexibility to exercise the pending three acts in order to protect citizens. However, it would be nice to know they are being held accounta
by JacobIrwin 16y ago
Government needs the flexibility to exercise the pending three acts in order to protect citizens. However, it would be nice to know they are being held accountable.
In other words... which ever division gets this almighty power to tap phones, businesses, etc. needs to be transparent to a "non-affiliated" (a loose term to describe two government agencies, I know) almighty power. Something like the relationship between the fed reserve and the treasury.
Also, the authors should re-word the act and say these powers only apply to suspected terrorist groups... just to give us a little piece of mind.
- iwwr 16y agoWhenever 'flexibility' and 'government' are put together, the result is power and corruption. Due process and habeas corpus are not just inconveniences against the ability to fight so-called 'enemies', but fundamental rights belonging to all. Removing individual liberties is not protecting, but endangering citizens.
- updog 16y agoHe that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. -Thomas Paine
- snsr 16y agoI wholeheartedly disagree; the provisions outlined by the Patriot Act, including these three, do not protect US citizens. They serve only to erode our rights.