JD
If PATRIOT ACT is NOT found Unconstitutional then the time for Revolution is at hand. The Constitution very explicitly states that a law such as PATRIOT ACT should never have been authored, let alone signed into law.
No legal hair splitting can get around this. If the Supremes fail in their duty to strike this law down, then all three branches of Gubmint are in colusion and have abandoned any pretense of checks and balances. It is then that they have broken their trust with the People and the People need to revoke their Consent granting the Gubmint it's authority.
The Government rules with the consent of the Goverened. ~Voltaire
Also, more troubling than PATRIOT ACT are the expanded powers granted to the FBI that Pres Bush signed into law the day Saddam Hussein was captured. Haven't heard much about that one in the news. Chewie started a thread on that here in CD.
As it is, the US Gubmint long ago sold it's integrity to Corporate and Special Intrests. Or why can the RIAA use ex-cops dressed in mock ATF/FBI/DEA style jackets to threaten
suspected copyright pirates to relinquish property, with out being locked down by law enforcement for vigilanteeism?
Source. Note, I'll start a new topic on this one. Keep this thread on the Unconstitutional PATRIOT ACT.
[ 01-09-2004, 06:58 PM: Message edited by: Night Stalker ]