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jeff47

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13. The OMG TERRORISTS caucus would have a bill that only helps terrorists, in their paranoid view.

Reply to dilby (Reply #12)

Thu Nov 20, 2014, 01:09 PM

Nov 2014

The extension was designed to bring a few of them along to get the bill done.

But that plan required the politicians who keep claiming to care about civil liberties to actually care about civil liberties. Or to accept improvements instead of only allowing perfection.

So again, which part of the Patriot act did this bill extend?

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They should not have included a Provision that extended the Patriot Act. dilby Nov 2014 #5

They liked the bill because it stopped NSA's bulk data collection. jeff47 Nov 2014 #9

Which was already extended earlier and will continue to be extended forever if people let it. dilby Nov 2014 #10

Well, now the OMG TERRORISTS caucus will extend it in another bill jeff47 Nov 2014 #11

If they would have extended it in another bill why not just pull it out then so this would have dilby Nov 2014 #12

The OMG TERRORISTS caucus would have a bill that only helps terrorists, in their paranoid view. jeff47 Nov 2014 #13

send balloon juice to your friends--It's the awesome! librechik Nov 2014 #6

Balloon Juice kpete Nov 2014 #7

+1000 n/t Spazito Nov 2014 #8