I'm Looking for "Patriot Act" Success Stories

[WhiteGuy]

sorry.... "obsolete".


Oh...............

I was hoping Obsolute was a new brand of Vodka.........
(Is there something you're not telling us?)

[Your Nightmare]

I guess technically some of those are US soil, but you knew what I meant. The Patriot Act wasn't passed to help stop terrorist acts against US interest in foriegn countries.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The police detainment of Andrew O'Connor comes to mind as one success.
http://news.bookweb.org/freeexpression/1908.html

[VaBthang4]

Haha...

[VaBthang4]

I'll ask you first...are we trading graphics?

[Jim Cane]

Some of you losers need to get a life....you can go march around your front yards, wearing your knickers and armed with your trusty muskets...

Now without being "told on" to the authorities by those who feast on federally funded fearmongering.

Meanwhile the rest of us are living in 2003 and face a credible threat of Nuclear, Chemical or Biological Terrorism....[and idiots like you].

You are of course talking about China. How does the Patriot Act counter China's hegemonic ambitions in the Pacific?

[WhiteGuy]

Y'know.................

I find if I hang around long enough on most threads there will be the opportunity for a joke.............

(most are weak jokes I admit..............)

[freeeee]

If the rapists and child molesters are not terrorists, what are they?

They're criminals. Yes, criminals are bad too you know.

Terrorism is the threat or purposeful use of physical force specifically against non-combatants for the purpose of instilling fear in a population and thereby effecting political change.

Everything else is just plain old crime, no matter how horrid it is.

Of course that's no fun for all the alphabet agencies, so terrorism will be whatever they say it is. And that's why the PA is so dangerous.

[Protagoras]

You ain't too smart.

You start post graphics and now you wonder.... LOL

[VaBthang4]

"Now without being "told on" to the authorities by those who feast on federally funded fearmongering."

What's your DU user id?

[VaBthang4]

So be it...

[Protagoras]

So be it? LOL..You were already doing that childish crap before you tried to pretend it was someone else's idea.

You ain't too smart.

[VaBthang4]

Let me understand this...

Is it your position that neither the Iranians or North Koreans have any nuclear capability and that even if they do...the federal government [which you seemingly loath] knows exactly where 'all' of their radioactive materials are at 'all' times?

[Jim Cane]

What's your DU user id?

"Geiselfrachtundfliegellichtem"

The password is "IBAdumb4ker"

[VaBthang4]

Apparently mission accomplished. ~grin~

[TankerKC]

0 [zero] Terrorists attacks in the United States since September 11th, 2001.

OK That's a little over two years so...

How do we explain that there were zero terrorist attacks in the United States for the two years prior to September 11, 2001. Was that the Patriot Act?

Just playing Devils Advocate.

[VaBthang4]

understandable

[Your Nightmare]

That was the point I was getting to. You made it much clearer, though!

[VaBthang4]

Considering the planning for September 11th ran two years behind September 11th....I would find it more appropriate to look at the steps taken by the administration most influential prior to September 11th and it's track record against this one and it's current track record.

[VaBthang4]

???