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Don't know if this is a repost or not,But this kinda sucks

that is so gay...give them another 3 years and they'll the the bill of rights dismatled. At least they've been thwarted in the latest attempt to drill the Arctic Wildlife Refuge. Bastards.

What sucks? That the govt can do whatever they want in pursuit of the scary commies...wait, er, terrorists? Sometimes I forget that it's 2005 and not 1950.

You know, ya figure that current events can't get any gayer when elton john gets married. but NOOOOOOOOOOOO

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll029.xml

The House just extended it.

the yeas were all republican and the nays were all democrat. broken government? you decide.

bollocks, i just read the other day that they had failed to extend it.

I believe this is not yet true. I read somewhere that this was just a vote to give the vote more time and to allow a majority vote. The previous vote was a 2/3rds needed which failed to pass.

hmmm well alright. worth noting ron paul among the 4 republican nays.

to quote donald trump "I like ron paul, but he isn't going to be president."

Gotta love how most republicans claim to be the defenders of the constitution and then they approve of this hogswallop. What was the Ben Franklin quote? Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither? hm...

The Founding Fathers have been rolling in the graves for years now.

i am praying for the day that the zombies of Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Franklin, led by Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, and Steve McQueen, rise up and slaughter everyone.

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Mindfuck, all government is corrupt

cast off yo chains

if you aint doin nothing wrong...then who gives a shit if they're watching/listening etc?

Coke bust

im breaking the law when i buy it and do it right? no one to blame but myself... the patriot act doesnt pertain to small time drug users though so it's not really a concern anyway. but if it as, i'd deserve it. no one does blow and doesnt know its illegal...

granted im a libertarian and think it should be legal and i should be able to OD if I want but thats a different story.

you should be able to shoot yourself in the fucking face and not have to worry about your debts being passed on to your family

the only reason the government wont let us kill ourselves is because they need to make money off us and know a lot more people would off themselves is they weren't scared of passing on their debt to family/ afraid of religious bullshit about hell

Drink an under-the-sink slushie about it, Samson

The Patriot Act pertains to whatever the fuck Homeland Security and the FBI and state and local cops around the country want it to pertain to...

Oh yeah, CIA and Pentagon too, though they're not supposed to be involved in domestic affairs.

exactly...so um.. NOT small time coke users.

Death to America.

I don't know, I wouldn't be surprised if, when the staties come up short on quotas, they can simply stop by their local fusion center and pull some drug-related calls out of the database to make a few quick busts.

Obviously small fish are always small fish, but the Patriot Act has already been used plenty outside the bounds of "terrorism"... Spying on political dissidents primarily, but also some larger scale drug/organized crime cases, if I remember correctly.

Point is, it's a weapon in the hands of the Feds, generally shared willingly with local authorities, and once you put that kind of weapon in the hands of authoritarians, they WILL abuse it. And have since it's been passed. Any pretense of the weapon being aimed solely at "terrorists" is viewed by the law enforcement community as, at best, a loose suggestion.

Unfortunately, the well-deserved hype over the Patriot Act has somewhat obscured the ongoing threat of Public Law 107-40, The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists.


Introduction

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and one,

Joint Resolution

To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.

Whereas, on September 11, 2001, acts of treacherous violence were committed against the United States and its citizens; and

Whereas, such acts render it both necessary and appropriate that the United States exercise its rights to self-defense and to protect United States citizens both at home and abroad; and

Whereas, in light of the threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by these grave acts of violence; and

Whereas, such acts continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States; and

Whereas, the President has authority under the Constitution to take action to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism against the United States: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Section 1 - Short Title

This joint resolution may be cited as the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force'.
[edit] Section 2 - Authorization For Use of United States Armed Forces

(a) IN GENERAL- That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.

(b) War Powers Resolution Requirements-

(1) SPECIFIC STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION- Consistent with section 8(a)(1) of the War Powers Resolution, the Congress declares that this section is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization within the meaning of section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution.

(2) APPLICABILITY OF OTHER REQUIREMENTS- Nothing in this resolution supercedes [sic] any requirement of the War Powers Resolution.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.


Not only does it allow the President to act as a military dictator as needed, it also gives him the unchecked power to accuse anyone anywhere in the world of complicity in the 9/11 attacks without a shred of proof, and the power to aim the world's largest military at any accusee he comes up with. All he has to do is point and say "Al Qaeda", and bam! We're at war with Afghanistan (/Yemen/Pakistan... /Egypt?/Sudan?/Syria?)...

If only it were so easy...



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