Democrats Win on Abusive Patriot Act
The House voted yesterday to allow us to read library books and buy tomes from bookstores without Big Brother watching. In a surprise turn, many Republicans joined with Democrats to repeal this worrisome section of the Patriot Act.
This is a clear message that the Democrats are on the side of the American People, and that the American People have spoken up with such volume that even lockstep NeoCons broke party ranks.
Perhaps they suddenly remembered the true meaning of "freedom." Not freedom to express hate for others, as is so commonly advocated by this administration, but freedom to learn, to educate ourselves, and to make informed decisions. Hunh, maybe that's exactly what they are afraid of. If Americans started educating themselves instead of just being
Of course, it would be important to know if someone being watched as a terror suspect were learning how to build bombs. But our constitution provides for that. As noted in the Fox News coverage of the story:
"If the government suspects someone is looking up how to make atom bombs, go to a court and get a search warrant," said Jerold Nadler, D-N.Y.That the government would want the right to look at what it's citizens are reading, without their permission, or even any clear record of such investigation is frankly alarming. Under the old Patriot Act, the government did not even have to specify why it was looking into such records; pre-greasing the slippery slope if I've ever seen it.
Bush said before the vote that he would veto the measure. I wonder why?
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