http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=66
2007-Apr-04
Repeal the Patriot Act
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Politicians excel at “the fine art of crisis creation.” Time and again they create policies that fail. Then they exploit those failures to grab more power, and then, almost inevitably, fail again.
It’s a vicious cycle and a cancerous death-spiral to our liberty.
9-11 and its aftermath provide a perfect example.
In truth, the federal government already had all the power and resources it needed to prevent the 9-11 attack. It knew who the terrorists were and what they were doing in advance, but Big Government still failed to protect us.
The follow-up was predictable. Government officials exploited their own failure to…
* Launch a fraudulent invasion of Iraq
* Erect a huge new bureaucracy in the form of the Department of Homeland Security
* Saddle the American people with the Patriot Act and the Real ID Act
Notice the pattern? Failure leads to new powers that lead to new failures…
* Iraq is a disaster
* The Department of Homeland Security is a mess
* The REAL ID Act is a nightmare
* And the Patriot Act is being abused
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SOOOOOOO, I took out my poison pen and added a blistering postscript.
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I am stunned to hear the FBI honcho admit that, even with the reduced requirements, the process is abused. I urge you to repeal the so called Patriot Act, as well as the Real Id, and “nuke” the Homeland Security organization. Pink slips for the leadership! With prejudice, they should all be “blacklisted” for other government jobs. Let them go live in the “real world” for a while. The labor can certainly seek other jobs, but the “leaders” that created this disaster are beyond reclamation. We have to send a message that there are penalties for incompetence and poor results. In this case, the results border on “criminal”. Clearly, this has been a disaster for liberty in the USA. Congress should get out the old “eraser on the ends of its collective pencils” and start repealing all the “stuff” done as a result of 9/11. It was a mistake and an over-reaction. No excuses. If you want my vote in the next election, then this is the single issue that will make me move the lever. If you can’t fix it by the next time I vote, then I’m going to vote for someone who can.
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Which I also forwarded to all the usual suspects!
One thing to remember is that poem “first they came for the Muslims, and I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t a Muslim”. I think it’s a comical (but dangerous) that we have a “homeland security”, which reminds me of Nazi Germany. All we need now are some Hollywood extras with snazzy black uniforms, heel clicking salutes, “vere isss your PAPERS!” and the comparison is complete.
Am I the only one who sees this a disaster of epic proportions?
I had the luxury of spending time with an old man who lost almost all of his family to the Nazi death camps. He was a Jewish intellectual — a specialist in international law. He saw what was coming. Every chance he had, he pushed someone out. While it was still loose, he was able to get his children out. His son was sent to England to learn “beer making” despite being a master chemist. His daughter went to learn to be an English Nanny despite being only fourteen. His wife went to England on a round trip ticket to visit the daughter and never went home. At the same time, he went on a business trip and never went back. His best friend shipped him some of his stuff and sold the rest. But, the friend could NOT get his family out. He waited too long. The friend’s wife was Jewish. Her, her family, and his children went to the camps. He dealt with it by committing suicide. You could not listen to these stories without being moved. When you would ask him how could it happen there, the answer was gradually in response to “threats”.
Any reason the hair on the back of my neck should NOT be standing up?
The Japanese Internment, “private” Census records used to round up “Japs”, The Northwood Document, The War on Drugs, The militarization of police, the Income Tax, the Inflation Tax, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Elian Gonzalez, Extraordinary Rendition, Gitmo, Jose Padilla, requiring passports in and out of our peaceful neighbors, eliminating Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, the Military Commissions Act, building a “Berlin Wall” on the Mexican Border, rounding up “illegals”?
Don’t forget the high taxes — the Income tax, the Inflation Tax, the Property Tax — that turn us into virtual slaves. The dead old white guys revolted over a 1% tax. Imagine what they’d say to us now?
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