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Posted by Steven Wu on Sunday, September 28 @ 02:24:52 EDT
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The Bush administration, which calls the USA Patriot Act perhaps its most essential tool in fighting terrorists, has begun using the law with increasing frequency in many criminal investigations that have little or no connection to terrorism.
The government is using its expanded authority under the far-reaching law to investigate suspected drug traffickers, white-collar criminals, blackmailers, child pornographers, money launderers, spies and even corrupt foreign leaders, federal officials said.
Legislation has always had unintended consequences. What's getting people angry, however, is that the Bush administration pushed the PATRIOT Act's scarier provisions through Congress by claiming that they were necessary to stop terrorist attacks--but now these provisions are clearly being used for non-terrorist criminals.
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A very recent example (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Monday, September 29 @ 20:36:31 EDT | The Adrian Lamo case
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6888
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/33106.html |
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Few were naive enough to doubt this misuse (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 30 @ 05:09:36 EDT | It's rather easy to predict that what something will be used for will be among the things it can be used for. It's also rather easy to predict what something will not be used for based on what it can not be used for. I would speculate that the original purpose of Patriot Act is the circumvention of U.S. and State laws and constitutional rights. Hence the rush to push it through congress unread. Corrective legislative action needs to be taken before the definition of "terrorist" expands to include political opponents or, eventually, non-members of a political party. |
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Re: USA PATRIOT Not Just for Terrorists (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 08 @ 15:07:44 EDT | Here is where I stand firm if the Patriot Act puts spies, drug lords, child porographers, and criminals behind bars it is helping the COUNTRY not hurting us. Those of you fighting against the ACT need to reflect upon yourself who you are fighting for in America the loyal law abiding citizens or the Criminals tearing this country to pieces.
SSgt Niswonger
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