On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 16:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > this gives the Feds the right to tap your phone without court order, > investigate your reading preferences in a public library,and a slew of > other anti-constitutional privledges.I believe in some cases it suspends > habeus corpus.Certain portions of the Act were instutited on a temp > basis(due to expirt in '05) due to paranoia over 9/11...the Republican > party is now trying to overturn the temp provisions and make it the law > of the new police state.
Some guy on Slashdot said: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1534234&mode=thread&tid=158&tid=103 "You can be detained, without being charged, indefinitely, having been investigated under a sealed warrant, an unsigned warrant, or no warrant at all, and then be denied access to a lawyer." Uh... does not a document called the US Constitution expressly forbid this kind of thing? I guess that document isn't important anymore. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (There seems to be 5 different versions of this quote all over the Internet, I have no idea what the exact wording is.) more info... http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism_militias/20011031_eff_usa_patriot_analysis.html EFF Analysis Of The Provisions Of The USA PATRIOT Act That Relate To Online Activities (Oct 31, 2001) Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED]
