The Patriot Act died last night and I cannot say I am terribly saddened. I know we live in dangerous times, but that is the price of freedom. Some provisions can be reborn if really needed. As far as collecting phone records, we are told the metadata contains no personal information. One pundit claimed the No Such Agency could not even identify the owner of the phone number. Then what is the point of collecting the data? There are courts that will allow collection in specific cases, we don't all need Big Brother listening in or watching our phone bill. Any overseas call? Have at it. I am all for xenophobia.
That said, Rand Paul is dangerous.
It did not die. Three sections of it died, including the egregious NSA data collection program, but the rest is still alive.
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing would make our fore fathers roll in their graves. We gave up freedom for a false sense of security.
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