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Originally Posted by onwebcam
and wipes his ass with the Constitution.
Key components in the USA Patriot Act are set to expire at the end of the year, but President Barack Obama is seeking to extend them, reversing his stark opposition in the past to the same provisions.
"The president's reversal on Patriot Act reform is a major travesty," said Michelle Richardson, Legislative Counsel for the leading civil rights group ACLU, in an interview with Raw Story. "There have been many, many abuses of power in the last four years."
These three main aspects in question allow the government to acquire private information about civilians through warrantless wiretapping of phone calls and emails, as well as seizure of records from credit reporting companies, banks, internet service providers and libraries. Another component includes the loosening of conditions under which an individual can be accused of providing "material support" to terrorists.
In 2005, then-Senator Obama pledged to filibuster a Bush-sponsored bill that included several of these exact components, calling it "just plain wrong" in a Senate speech.
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/obamas-p...rlier-stances/ |
You must be braindead to have bought into Obama's "change" nonsense, just like most idiotic democrats. For every 1 thing Obama considers doing differently, the other 9 he does like Bush, except more intelligent and more covertly, and THAT I give him props for. He finally realized, or knew this whole time that "change" is impossible and "adapting" is the only logical move.