With this fraudulent misnamed "Patriot" Act American people are signing on before the fact and that is very dangerous.
The word "Patriot" is not being used for no reason at all.
With the stroke of a pen, FDR put hundreds of thousands of Americans in internment camps and AMERICANS said nothing. Whether it was warranted or not is not the question, rather the fact that it was done should have been a lesson for Americans.
It wasn't warranted. I shudder every time I read some FReeper defending the rounding up of American citizens based on their ethnicity. It's a Dem evil, and we should hold them accountable for it. We certainly shouldn't be defending it.
With this fraudulent misnamed "Patriot" Act American people are signing on before the fact and that is very dangerous.
The word "Patriot" is not being used for no reason at all.
On the contrary - it's being used for a very specific reason. They're shrewd. They know that by giving the bill the right name, its opponents can be accused of being "against America." Marketing at its finest.