Senate Approves Patriot Act Renewal

AP ^ | 3/2/6 | LAURIE KELLMAN

[massgopguy]

They're in denial that it actually happened.

[scratcher]

"They're in denial that it actually happened"

Like the last elections?

[LambSlave]

So how's that alcohol prohibition thing workin' out for ya? Still can't buy booze? And tell me, are you afraid of being drafted?

Government didn't "take" power during Prohibition is was done through the only legitimate means of increasing Government powers-- the resolution of a Constitutional Amendment; nevertheless the power to reinstate or even expand this power could be achieved today without such an amendment. There is nothing whatsoever preventing re-institution of the draft, except that senior DOD leadership knows that drafted soldiers aren't nearly as effective as an all-volunteer Army and scream and howl any time the subject is proposed...

[Independentamerican2]

"I agree. I'm glad I won't be around in 40 or so yrs from now. I'd hate to see what our country will be like"

Slowly but surely we will lose our rights to privacy..Oh well there is nothing anybody will do about it. Some cities you may not be able to blow your noise on the sidewalk without having an audience

[Independentamerican2]

"I agree. I'm glad I won't be around in 40 or so yrs from now. I'd hate to see what our country will be like"

Slowly but surely we will lose our rights to privacy..Oh well there is nothing anybody will do about it. Some cities you may not be able to blow your noise on the sidewalk without having an audience

[CyberAnt]

Okay .. I just wanted to make sure the dems didn't take away our ability to protect ourselves.

[mortal19440]

Slowly but surely we will lose our rights to privacy

Exactly where is this "right" mentioned in the Constitution?

[Jaxter]

Slowly but surely we will lose our rights to privacy

Exactly where is this "right" mentioned in the Constitution?

Isn't the right to privacy what they've been using for the last thirty years to kill unborn babies? So, it's gotta be in there, right? Right? /sarc

[LambSlave]

Exactly where is this "right" mentioned in the Constitution?

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

[italianquaker]

patriotatgate oh noooooooooooooooooooooooo

[italianquaker]

sorry patriot act gate oh nooooooooooooooooooo

[chiefqc]

Teddie was so upset he went out and got drunk, oh wait how could I tell since he is always drunk.

[Southack]

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Privacy is not a "power."

[Southack]

"Government didn't "take" power during Prohibition..."

Of course it did. There are only 2 options, taking power or turning it down.

Well, government did not turn down the power of Prohibition. It took it.

[Reily]

The people in a fit of idiocy granted the federal government the power to prohibit 'adult beverages' through the 21st Amendment. Thus showing even the Founding Fathers underestimated the power of human stupidity ! Actually there is no constitutional way of turning that 'gift of power' down If the people constitutionally decide to enforce idiocy. It must be enforced !.

'Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain !'

[Southack]

"Actually there is no constitutional way of turning that 'gift of power' down If the people constitutionally decide to enforce idiocy. It must be enforced !."

Laws go unenforced every day. Prohibition, in contrast, was embraced by government.

[Reily]

Because it was demanded by the people!
It was a fit of democratic demagoguery run wild ! It initially was very popular! There was massive moral blovating about how necessary and right it was !

Government is not a conscious entity it is simply an agent.
As you say laws go unenforced all the time. Thats because it would be unpopular hence not worth the trouble to enforce. They don't get repealed for a whole variety of reasons from bureaucratic inertia or maybe some sense of misplaced moral guilt (Usually stirred up by a politician or in todays world the Kulture smog, media, the Hollyweird crowd, etc!)

[Quick1]

So how's that alcohol prohibition thing workin' out for ya?

Funny, seems to me that we still have a Prohibition going on. And we didn't even need a Constitutional Amendment to do it the second time.

Do you think the government will ever give back it's newfound emminent domain power?

[Quick1]

I would argue that privacy is quite powerful.

[Southack]

"I would argue that privacy is quite powerful."

People argue nonsense everyday.

That doesn't change the fact that "privacy" is not a power, however.