Re: There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says

If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -- Anatole France



At 12:54 PM 5/27/2011, you wrote:

Overwhelming bipartisan support for a 4 YEAR extension.

I thought it was bad?

On May 27, 12:41 pm, Jonathan Ashley <jonathanashle...@lavabit.com>
wrote:
> *There�s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says* http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/secret-patriot-act/
>
> "Congress is set to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the
> surveillance law as early as Thursday. Wyden (D-Oregon) says that powers
> they grant the government on their face, the government applies a far
> broader legal interpretation � an interpretation that the government has
> conveniently classified, so it cannot be publicly assessed or
> challenged. But one prominent Patriot-watcher asserts that the secret
> interpretation empowers the government to deploy �dragnets� for massive
> amounts of information on private citizens; the government portrays its
> data-collection efforts much differently."
> --
>
>       Freedom is always illegal!
>
> When we ask for freedom, we have already failed. It is only when we
> declare freedom for ourselves and refuse to accept any less, that we
> have any possibility of being free.

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