Reply #69: I think the USA PATRIOT Act was the exception rather than the rule, joey, & of course it was Repub [View All]

350 pages of unconstitutional crap came off some genius's shelf and was presented to Congress as a full-out emergency package while they were all quite literally shell-shocked from the events of 9-11, including the plane slamming into the Pentagon. (I have a friend who was working in DC that day, and it shook the town like an earthquake.)

Thanks to Bush's henchmen, Senators and Reps were given no time to read the damn thing, nor to have their staffs vet it. They had a few days, at best.

THIS bill, on the contrary, is no such animal. Anyone in Congress who by now has not had their staff read it in full and present an analysis, or by now has not personally given the various iterations of the bill the once-over, is simply not doing his or her job. They are misrepresenting the case -- they are lying. They've had a year.

Sorry, joeybee, this line is baloney.

Hekate