Are there examples of any abuse of the Patriot Act?
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Abuses under the Patriot Act:\n\nhttp://usgovinfo.about.com/od/rightsandfreedoms/a/patriotabuse.htm
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Love your country, distrust your government.  "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety," Benjamin Franklin.  The US Patriot Act is very very unpatriotic.  It literally strips away your Constitutional Rights.  Hitler burned the Reichstag building when he became Chancelor.  Then blamed it on Poland.  The Bush Administration caused 911 to happen and then they blamed Afganistan and Iraq.  The media is completely saturated with propaganda.  Currently, the United States is run by a military industrial complex and most Americans are blind to that.  Many people say you shouldn't believe what you read on the internet, but it's the internet that has complete and total freedom to communicate the truth and what's really going on.  All other media is controlled and propagated.  Do the research.  Find the truth.  We must take our county back from these treasonous "leaders."
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Good point, your now coming out of the fake scare fog aren't you. The Patriot Act was just to spy on Americans wasn't it. George Bush finally admitted to it 3 years later. There never was a threat. Fear tactics to get votes and raise the forced inflation rate to make a few American Corporations filthy rich was the plan. How do you like the Republicans now?
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Sure, pay attention to the opinions of the Supreme and Federal Courts.  Also, actually read the bills going through the legislature.  At this point, a good place to start is with the Patriot Act.  See http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html
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i know from my time in the navy you can be court marshaled for saying corrupt things about the president and any other high ranking officals. if i remember it right its borderline treason, which according to military law you can be put to death for. and for those that dont know the NSA tracks everything you do on the internet, its included with the patriot act. so anything you say wrong about the president or the government is tracked and logged. and then anytime you log on it red flags your ip address so you can be tracked online.
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The so-called "Patriot Act" is anything BUT patriotic. It is in direct voilation to our civil rights. This is a travesty since so many people who have come before, fought and died to ensure our civil liberties. We as Americans need to stress to our Congressmen and our Senetors that we will NOT stand for a government that tries to over-ride our civil rights and our very freedom!
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You don't have the legal right to take the law into your own hands. That would itself be a crime! We have a Patriot Act in this country among other provisions for dealing with terrorism at the state and federal level. Just because the police don't "appear" to be acting, doesn't mean that they are not investigating the matter. Leave police work to the professionals and don't try to be a vigilante. It will only backfire and land you in jail.
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it completely and utterly baffles me why people accept the patriot act. with one sweeping legislation, freedoms of americans are obliterated it is uncautionable why it is just acceptable for so many to take away rights that were so hard fought to achieve there is a  lot of blood that was shed for those very rights and they are just giving those rights so easily. the patriot act is bordering on dictatorship and americans need another revolution to fight off their oppressors.
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Hi,\nthe evidence you give is OK but there are billions of more examples. Here are some.\n1. Atticus' modesty: read the chapter about the dog shooting again and Jem's final words.\n\n2. Atticus' direct answers to direct questions 'what's rape?'\n\n3. His reasonable strictures: 'leave the Radleys alone'\n\n4. The way he makes Scout read to Miss Dubose and see an example of 'true bravery'\n\n5. 'turning the other cheek' when spat uopn by Ewell\n\nAll these can be reflected against the main event which is of course Tom's trial. \n\nAtticus is a father who gives his children an example in life: a way of life that shows it is wrong to persecute, be prejudiced, and that it is right to be modest, discreet and to stand up against oppression of the underdog, \n\nIn short he shows his children that it is a sin to kill a monckingbird, and no one can ask anymore than that surely as an example?\n\nDan
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Yes, as others said, it takes a court order from a Judge and the legal requirements are very tough.  Patriot Act!  I wish idiots would learn to read something before criticizing.  The Patriot Act has many, many parts.  Wiretapping has been allowed for years - way before the Patriot Act.   Wire taps pertaining to spying and domestic terrorism have been authorized, again for years, when signed a Judge in a Secret Court.  None of this has anything to do with what Bush has been recently accused of or the Patriot Act.  Yes, wiretapping is Constitutional and legal under law.
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Not at all.\n\nThere are millions of people screaming, "Unfair! You are violating my rights!" Yet, how many people can actually say the have been a subject of the so-called "domesticy spying" program? How many people have actually had their phones tapped and conversations recorded?\n\nFor that matter, how many people have been the subject of a Patriot Act investigation? How many have had their library records looked at? How many have had their information spread across every intelligence agency in the nation?\n\nMy point is this: The only people who are being targeted are being targeted for a REASON. The government does not just indiscriminately say, "Let's listen in on John Q. Public's conversation for sh!ts and giggles today." Uncle Sam does not just pick phone numbers at random to listen to. There is a REASON they investigate who they do. And I, for one, WANT them investigated. If they are doing no wrong, the investigation will clear them. But if they ARE doing wrong, I sure as hell hope we are doing EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to stop them. The next attack could cost hundreds of thousands of American lives.\n\n"When NSA goes after the content of a communication under this authorization from the president, the NSA has already established its reasons for being interested in that specific communication. I've said in other places this isn't a drift net over Lackawanna or Freemont or Dearborn, grabbing all communications and then sifting them out."\n\n-- Gen. Michael Hayden (Deputy Director of National Intelligence)\n\nBottom line: If your phone hasn't been tapped, your rights have not been violated. If you are not engaging in any illegal activity, chances are 99.999% that you phone hasn't been tapped.
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The first amendment says freedom of speech.\nThe Patriot Act allows the government to spy on you and arrest you if you "say" you're planning terrorism.\n\nThat's one link.
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YES!!!!!!!!!  as an example is a man-in-the-middle attack, eavesdroping and many more
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Seriously we don't. The Gov. been into our freedom long before the Patriot Act., to know our every move all they need is our SS# ( I remember when this was only used to get a job, now you better know it without looking at it or you're not who you say you are).  Congress knowing this and to (as if they were doing us a favor) look good denied the extention.
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It ought to be, abolishing the patriot act is a priority which is why Bush is pressing the outgoing congress to pass a tougher wire tap version now!\n\nBen Franklin said if one is willing to sacrifice someliberties for security soon you will have neither
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The Voting Rights Act and the Patriot Act
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Yes, they do it all the time.  If you've upset any big time politicians who has friends in the FBI, they can say you are "Dangerous" (For any damn reason) or "Terrorist" related.\nThe FISA Secret Court, originated in 1978, allows them to search anything they want to and never even tell you about it.  The rules only got worse with the Patriot Act.\nAnd cops can do anything illegal at all, as long as they're trying to "Solve a crime."