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Our Government is full of Morons
9 June 2005 @ 08:15 AM MST
9 June 2005 @ 08:15 AM MST
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It may be my birthday today, but I am pissed off about things... so prepare for a rant.
The PATRIOT Act was created with a 5 year lifespan (referred to as a sunset clause). That means it expires this year unless Congress votes in favor of extending the clause. It also means that it can be changed and adjusted before being put up for vote. If any change should happen it should be that we eliminate it altogether. But that's not likely to happen. Instead it has been proposed that it be made stronger. The FBI should be able to use subpeona power without receiving permission from a judge, and if anyone makes the existance of this subpeona public they can be sent to prison.
So let's see. I'm sitting at home and the FBI busts down my door. They don't need to have a warrant (which violates Amendment 4) they can take anything they want, for as long as they want (all of which violates Amendment 4). But that's not all. Now, if this happens to me, and I try to tell somebody about it, I can be thrown in prison (What happened to the 1st Amendment and my freedom of speech?). After they've gone through all my things and I'm now in prison, they can decide what their reason was for doing it. And, from a recent court ruling, suppose they find an encryption program on my computer (which exists, because I made one in 8th grade) they can use that in court as grounds that I was doing something illegal.
Saying these laws will only affect the terrorists is complete BS, cause they can destroy your life and then decide if you're a terrorist or not, but at that point does it really matter?
They say that the terrorists are trying to take away our freedom, to make us scared to go about our lives. So we've created all these new laws to protect our country. We've taken little slices of freedom away in the name of security.
"They that give up liberty for security deserve neither" - Benjamin Franklin
It seems that we will soon have neither if we don't make things change. 'Cause guess what. Anybody can still walk across the US-Mexico border, carrying any kind of weapons they want, and can still blow up whatever they want. Searching homes and putting policeman on every corner can't change that. If a person wants to blow himself up, and take 20 lives with him, we can't stop him. Israel has been trying to stop it for years, and they have a much smaller area to worry about, how could we possibly stop them. So we'll just keep giving up our liberty, thinking we'll get security...
"What luck for rulers, that men do not think." - Adolph Hitler
If we could just get people to see what is happening, maybe we could stop it.
And I could go on... but to what end... no one listens... no one cares... and before long, it will be to late to do either.
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The PATRIOT Act was created with a 5 year lifespan (referred to as a sunset clause). That means it expires this year unless Congress votes in favor of extending the clause. It also means that it can be changed and adjusted before being put up for vote. If any change should happen it should be that we eliminate it altogether. But that's not likely to happen. Instead it has been proposed that it be made stronger. The FBI should be able to use subpeona power without receiving permission from a judge, and if anyone makes the existance of this subpeona public they can be sent to prison.
So let's see. I'm sitting at home and the FBI busts down my door. They don't need to have a warrant (which violates Amendment 4) they can take anything they want, for as long as they want (all of which violates Amendment 4). But that's not all. Now, if this happens to me, and I try to tell somebody about it, I can be thrown in prison (What happened to the 1st Amendment and my freedom of speech?). After they've gone through all my things and I'm now in prison, they can decide what their reason was for doing it. And, from a recent court ruling, suppose they find an encryption program on my computer (which exists, because I made one in 8th grade) they can use that in court as grounds that I was doing something illegal.
Saying these laws will only affect the terrorists is complete BS, cause they can destroy your life and then decide if you're a terrorist or not, but at that point does it really matter?
They say that the terrorists are trying to take away our freedom, to make us scared to go about our lives. So we've created all these new laws to protect our country. We've taken little slices of freedom away in the name of security.
"They that give up liberty for security deserve neither" - Benjamin Franklin
It seems that we will soon have neither if we don't make things change. 'Cause guess what. Anybody can still walk across the US-Mexico border, carrying any kind of weapons they want, and can still blow up whatever they want. Searching homes and putting policeman on every corner can't change that. If a person wants to blow himself up, and take 20 lives with him, we can't stop him. Israel has been trying to stop it for years, and they have a much smaller area to worry about, how could we possibly stop them. So we'll just keep giving up our liberty, thinking we'll get security...
"What luck for rulers, that men do not think." - Adolph Hitler
If we could just get people to see what is happening, maybe we could stop it.
And I could go on... but to what end... no one listens... no one cares... and before long, it will be to late to do either.
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