On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 01:43:20 GMT, "Tom Hyslip"
wrote in Message-Id:
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http://www.heraldonline.com/local/st...-2670334c.html
The backlash has been building steadily since the passage of the
Patriot Act in October 2001. Among the provisions opponents find
most troubling:

. The FBI has broader authority to seek information on citizens'
reading habits at libraries and bookstores, as well as financial
information and medical records without having "probable cause."
Instead, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, a secret
body that oversees investigations against terrorism suspects, must
deem information being sought as relevant in a criminal probe.


CALLED JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT, NO DIFFERENCE THEN GOING TO ANY OTHER COURT
AND HAVING THE RECORD SEALED
WHICH IS DONE I [sic] ALMOST EVERY CASE


This is so startlingly Orwellian as to elevate the sagacious author to
absolute prescience:

"The FBI has broader authority to seek information on citizens'
[...] financial information and medical records without having
"probable cause."

If, indeed, the above quote is correct, I am profoundly insulted and
forever disillusioned by the audacious hubris of the small minds that
people the labyrinth that is US bureaucracy.

It makes me feel fortunate to have lived in more noble times past that
predate the marketing saturated, over populated, television steeped,
patently corrupt, sorry quagmire that today so rapidly engulfs our
once respected and capable nation. I am so revulsed by such vulgar
trampling of the ideals of freedom and equality espoused in the
documents of this nation's birth as to feel relief, that my journey
into the future is now considerably shorter then the 25% of this
nation's existence that I have thus far experienced.

Denying due process of law to US citizens is not only criminal, it is
unjust and wrong.

. Some search warrants can be kept secret for 90 days, allowing
the government to go into someone's home or business without the
target knowing it.


SEE ABOVE

Secret and warrantless search is how you define "JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT"?
Your credibility is blown, brother.

. In some cases, people can be jailed for providing aid to groups
the government links to terrorism..

AIDING AND ABETING THE ENEMY. NO DIFFERENCE THEN PROVIDING MONEY TO
HITLER IN WW2

http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHG..._Bush_ Nazi_2
“Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951” - Federal Documents
By John Buchanan and Stacey Michael
from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7, 2003