Yes I disagree with the courts about what is "unreasonable", if the courts are judged by incompetents then it is in our best interest to disagree with them. But that is a different argument. Oh yeah, and our Founding Fathers did disagree with the Courts set up by the King so I find myself in some rather great company.
As I said earlier the mail is not addressed by the Patriot Act. We already have defined by law that mail is private property and the government is charged with it's protection while under its care.
Again please state a case where the Patriot Act was used to open someones mail or illegally search their basement. The Founding Fathers can not be considered as they had no knowledge of emails, computers, and/or phones, and to presume we know how they would have felt about them is a joke. What we do know is why we went to war and your nonsense about writs of assistance is not even touched upon in the Declaration of Independence, which lays out our exact reasons for going to war.
The patriot act does not cover snail mail or your basement. So for this discussion lets stick to the topic at hand. As a side I would consider mail and your basement to be your private property, which I would consider protected. What we are dealing with here are items that are stored on someone elses property or transmitted over "public airwaves" or comminuty transmission lines.
The problem I have here is that most people have misinterpreted the 4th amendment. It only says that you are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures not from searches and seizures. (Example: The police do not need a warrant to search a vehicle caught speeding away from the scene of a crime or a suspects pockets for that matter) I would argue that if our enemies are using the phones , internet, etc... to set up attacks against our country that the Patriot Act's provisions could easily be considered reasonable by any sane judge. Now I know that most of you are thinking that the supreme court ruled on this and you would be correct, but the supreme court has made wrong rulings before and have overturned themselves. I will not even discuss rulings based on nothing that can be found in the constitution. As for the idea that it can be abused all laws can be abused that doesn't make it wrong. Read the 4th for yourselves then read Article I Section 8. I don't care what a Judge that is clearly stepping outside his jurisdiction, rules in this case. The Patriot Act is constitutional and it shouldn't depend on what your definition of is is, I'm sorry I mean what your definition of unreasonable is.
God forbid the papers management try to find a way to sell more papers that apparently their journalists can't seem to put an interesting story in. I wonder how many of these so called journalists are going to work for free when nobody buys their rag. I say tough, if you don't like the way they run the paper, carry your a$$.
Missed this first time I read some comments, but finally someone else who gets it. Political defeat is the only solution we must defeat the idea of Socialism. To do that we must fight on equal terms with the Left and not let them define us. We let them define the right, by letting them define GWB, nobody on the right defended the things he did well. Now where are the politicians on the right defending the tea party's. I have not seen but a couple but yet the left (MSM) has managed to start labeling them without much retort. We need to challenge the left where we will be heard. Again Thanks TaraLynn.
“I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.”
Henry David Thoreau
I hope we don't see the WH for fifty years by then the socialists left in this country will have eaten their own and destroyed this country like the Soviets did Russia. We will then return from the four corners of the earth with the wealth we have already secured abroad and protected from these thieves, and regain control once and for all. I will not be around in fifty but my children will enjoy their return. In the mean time the best we can do is protect our fortunes, hide the money its yours. The masses are like parasites they feed off our hard work and just hang around complaining about how hard it is to live off other peoples money.
The term "Free Speech" has never been intended to allow a person the right to say or show anything they want at any time. We have always had restraints on what could be said and shown at certain times and places. Yelling fire in a crowded theater, inciting a riot, public nudity, cross burning the list goes on and on. Free speech must be respected and limited by the individuals or the government will be forced to do it for us and that never turns out well.
Nobody with an IQ above 25.
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