Republicans & Democrats Agree: Give Vast Snooping Powers To The US Government
Nov 24, 2019 07:45:55 #
"Even in our polarized and right vs. left political paradigm, there is one thing both republicans and democrats can agree on:
[The federal government should have vast snooping powers and conduct mass surveillance on everyone.
They simply disagree over who should be in charge of abusing those excessive powers.]
The impeachment circus did one thing successfully. It took attention from the government’s mass surveillance programs that are constantly expanded. As Reason proposed:
If Democrats really feared Donald Trump’s exercise of the powers of the presidency, why would they propose extending the surveillance powers of the controversial Patriot Act?
House Democrats have successfully slipped an unqualified renewal of the draconian PATRIOT Act into an emergency funding bill – v****g near-unanimously for sweeping surveillance carte blanche that was the basis for the notorious NSA program.
Buried on the next-to-last page of the Continuing Appropriations Act, meant to keep the government’s lights on and dated yesterday, is the following language:
Section 102(b)(1) of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (50 U.S.C. 101805 note) is amended by striking “December 15, 2019” and inserting “March 15, 2020”.
This relatively innocuous language pushes back the sunset provision of the Patriot Act by three months, leaving its vast powers in the hands of a president who Democratic p**********l hopeful Joe Biden charges with “failure to uphold basic democratic principles,” who House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused of “alarming connections and conduct with Russia” and, joined by Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer, says is making an attempt to “shred the Constitution.” –Reason
[The federal government should have vast snooping powers and conduct mass surveillance on everyone.
They simply disagree over who should be in charge of abusing those excessive powers.]
The impeachment circus did one thing successfully. It took attention from the government’s mass surveillance programs that are constantly expanded. As Reason proposed:
If Democrats really feared Donald Trump’s exercise of the powers of the presidency, why would they propose extending the surveillance powers of the controversial Patriot Act?
House Democrats have successfully slipped an unqualified renewal of the draconian PATRIOT Act into an emergency funding bill – v****g near-unanimously for sweeping surveillance carte blanche that was the basis for the notorious NSA program.
Buried on the next-to-last page of the Continuing Appropriations Act, meant to keep the government’s lights on and dated yesterday, is the following language:
Section 102(b)(1) of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (50 U.S.C. 101805 note) is amended by striking “December 15, 2019” and inserting “March 15, 2020”.
This relatively innocuous language pushes back the sunset provision of the Patriot Act by three months, leaving its vast powers in the hands of a president who Democratic p**********l hopeful Joe Biden charges with “failure to uphold basic democratic principles,” who House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused of “alarming connections and conduct with Russia” and, joined by Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer, says is making an attempt to “shred the Constitution.” –Reason
Nov 27, 2019 16:27:55 #
ACP45 wrote:
"Even in our polarized and right vs. left pol... (show quote)
I don't recall the American giving them anything. They used their own begotten corruption to usurp their poeer to spy upon and dominate their snooping.
Nov 29, 2019 15:18:14 #
Dwight Logan wrote:
I don't recall the American giving them anything. They used their own begotten corruption to usurp their poeer to spy upon and dominate their snooping.
What would you call the passing of the legislation called the Patriot Act in 2001, and the subsequent and continuing renewal of this legislation by both the Republicans and Democrats that grant this spying authority to our numerous intelligence agencies?
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