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| The Patriot Act reality. |
I was a defender of the Patriot Act in general principle
after 9/11 when it was proposed because my understanding was it was only going
to be used to hunt down known or suspected terrorists. In the last several days
after learning about the massive size and scope of the law I have to admit now
it was a big mistake giving the government these kinds of overreaching powers.
Knowing what we all know now the law has to be drastically altered or better
yet abolished.
When Barack Obama
says,” trust the government” I just can’t believe that gathering phone records
of millions of innocent Americans is a very” trusting act” nor is it really
keeping us any safer from terrorism.
As we’ve seen any number of times in his administration
abuse of power is just his normal MO or "Chicago style politics.” Fast and Furious, the IRS targeting Conservatives, the IRS spending $4.1 million on what was basically a lavish vacation, the DOJ secretly subpoenaing the private phonerecords of AP reporters, the Benghazi cover up, the recent graft grab by EPA
employees, the billions of taxpayers’ dollars blown on alternative energy
companies gone bankrupt, the failed GM and Chrysler bailouts, the massive Obamacare boondoggle that is basically an enormous tax that 75% of the people polled said
they didn’t want and still don’t want and now this incredible phone records story.
If anyone really believes that you can “trust” the
government to use this information for security and terrorism prevention only
look no farther than how the IRS was basically used as a political tool to deny
groups on the right their freedom of political expression. By the way, this is
the same IRS that is suppose to enforce and collect on the new Obamacare laws
next year and we can “trust” them to enforce the law equally?
Do you honestly believe the phone records of people who are
politically on the right wouldn’t be tempting information used by power hungry
liberal bureaucrats that may find a way to use it against them?
This phone records story was a tipping point, yesterday I
called all of the Oregon US Congressional Representatives and demanded that
impeachment hearings begin for Obama, enough is enough. I urge others to do
likewise because the Obama loving lapdog mainstream media isn’t going to go to
bat for freedom or fairness.
Maybe now NSA’s Prism program will check my phone records
and put me on a terrorist watch list. Maybe the IRS will audit me because I’m
speaking out against the most corrupt President and his no less guilty group of
minions in the executive branch, that have ever cursed our country. Bring it
on, I'm right here!
