10th Anniversary of Patriot Act: Never has our government been less accountable to We the People.

[Better Believe It]

10th anniversary of Patriot Act a day to mourn
By Shahid Buttar
October 25, 2011

Oct. 26 marks the 10th anniversary of the USA Patriot Act, the first among many bipartisan government assaults on the Bill of Rights over the past decade. It is a time to mourn our lost freedoms.

Our constitutional rights have dramatically eroded, turning the “land of the free” into the “land of the easily intimidated.” We have traded liberty for a false impression of security, and we will regret it.

President Bush originally signed the Patriot Act into law on Oct. 26, 2001, and — despite documented, recurring and ongoing abuses — President Obama has signed reauthorization bills no fewer than three times. Even though more than 400 cities and towns, plus eight states, have issued official resolutions repudiating domestic surveillance, the national security juggernaut has continued to steamroll the Constitution.

Never has our government been less accountable to We the People.

Read the full article at:

http://www.progressive.org/patriot_act.html

[MineralMan]

1. Well, you just know that the next Republican President is

going to fix this right away. :sarcasm:

Time to start the day, I see. Negative articles to find. Opinionated stuff that fits the meme to post. What a lot of work...Feh!

[Autumn]

2. Not to worry. We will elect a Democrat that will end this

:rofl:



Too bad the joke was on us. K/R

[Lint Head]

3. If a Re-Pubic-Can't is elected we'll see The Pledge of Allegiance Act,

The National Anthem at Every Event Act, The Prayer Before Checking Out at Walmart Act, The Death is Profitable Act and The No Immigrant Act among many others.

[Autumn]

4. An excellent article. And such a sad anniversary.

Thank you for finding and posting this article. I appreciate your posts very much.

[leftstreet]

5. K&R

Excellent article

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. I (still) cannot believe Obama signed that into extension.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. The irony is, that this was passed, signed, and reauthorized to "protect" our freedoms.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken