"4 July 1776 Declaration of Independence"

Originally posted by RJHinds
It just so happens that the Republicans are the best of what we have to choose from right now.

The Instructor

Are you kidding me?

Because of the Republicans, we have the Patriot Act and other attempts at destroying the Fourth Amendment. We have government agencies, who ostensibly work for the people, eavesdropping on Americans without Constitutional authority. And don't try to pin this on Obama. This started under Reagan, made possible by Nixon, and has finally come to fruition because of the widespread usage of the internet.

The Republicans, despite all their excuses of wanting less government and less cost, obstructed government and cost the American taxpayers at least 24 billion dollars by shutting down the government because they got their panties in a bunch.

Republicans are the bane of true American democracy. They do not care to work for the people, they only work for themselves, elected by all the people they can fool into thinking they actually have a purpose in Washington beyond lining their own pockets. Tools like you are making the rich richer at the expense of everyone else.

Originally posted by Suzianne
Are you kidding me?

Because of the Republicans, we have the Patriot Act and other attempts at destroying the Fourth Amendment. We have government agencies, who ostensibly work for the people, eavesdropping on Americans without Constitutional authority. And don't try to pin this on Obama. This started under Reagan, made possible by Nixon, and has final ...[text shortened]... g their own pockets. Tools like you are making the rich richer at the expense of everyone else.

You need education on political matters.

With bipartisan support, US Senate agrees to Patriot Act renewal

By Joe Kay
2 March 2006

With overwhelming bipartisan support, the USA Patriot Act is set for renewal next week. On Wednesday, the Senate voted 95-4 for a bill that will ensure the act will pass by March 10, with minor modifications of some of its most controversial and repressive measures.

The new agreement will permanently extend most of the Patriot Act’s provisions that would otherwise expire, while making only insignificant changes to a law that has become symbolic worldwide of the attack on democratic rights.

When the Patriot Act was originally passed in October 2001, Congress mandated that 16 of its provisions would expire after four years. In the summer of 2005, both houses of Congress overwhelmingly (in the Senate, unanimously) approved slightly different extensions of these provisions. Both versions included the permanent enactment of 14 of the 16 temporary measures.

Dianne Feinstein of California declared that the bill “is a substantial improvement.” Richard Durbin of Illinois said it represented progress in “protecting civil liberties at a time when we are dealing with the war on terrorism,” while Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called it “a step in the right direction.”

The overwhelming support of the Democrats for the renewal of the Patriot Act comes only a few months after revelations of massive illegal domestic spying through another mechanism: the secret National Security Agency program set up by the Bush administration over four years ago.

The Democrats keep renewing the Patriot Act.

On May 26, 2011, Congress passed a four-year extension of three expiring Patriot Act provisions without making much-needed changes to the overly broad surveillance bill. The extended provisions are set now set to expire on June 1, 2015. Despite bills pending in both the House and the Senate to amend the three expiring provisions and other sections of the Patriot Act, Congress decided instead to move ahead with a straightforward reauthorization.

On May 26, 2011, President Barack Obama signed the PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011, a four-year extension of three key provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act: roving wiretaps, searches of business records (the "library records provision" ), and conducting surveillance of "lone wolves"—individuals suspected of terrorist-related activities not linked to terrorist groups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

The Instructor

Originally posted by RJHinds
[b]You need education on political matters.

With bipartisan support, US Senate agrees to Patriot Act renewal

By Joe Kay
2 March 2006

With overwhelming bipartisan support, the USA Patriot Act is set for renewal next week. On Wednesday, the Senate voted 95-4 for a bill that will ensure the act will pass by March 10, with minor modifications of ...[text shortened]... es not linked to terrorist groups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

The Instructor[/b]

There are traitors, as well as morons, in every party.

I'm sure that the Democrats who supported this did so because they thought their constituents supported it. I find that hard to believe, but people show an amazing capacity for stupid.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin, 1759

Unfortunately, many of those who think it wise to give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety are those who also purport to represent the American People, and therefore purport to speak for them. It's also unfortunate that those representatives do actually speak for some of them. The rest of us want our essential liberty back.