^Haha, he thinks the Patriot Act was the first act of congress that made Americans targets of their own government. What he doesn't know is that there was a law passed in 1933 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, which enabled the US Government to target its own citizens as enemies of the state. It is known as the War Powers Act of 1933, built based off of an act passed 16 years earlier known as the 1917 Trading With the Enemy Act. If he thinks the Patriot Act is illegal, the legal precedent was set almost 90 years before the it's passage! He may wish to hold a seance with FDR and give him a piece of his mind.
You got that from his post?
Now, be honest, you've just discovered that little nugget of history and have been desperate for an opportunity to trot it out to show what a good googler you really are.
So...you really would like to blame others for your ignorance?
This, from the book "FDR Goes To War," by Folsom and Folsom:
1. FDR’s abuse of civil rights: wiretapping for security was expanded to tap Republicans…and his wife, Eleanor!
a. The internment of 110,000 Japanese seems to have been largely political. Earl Warren of California was sensitive to his constituents resenting the large success of the Japanese in agriculture. And, interned, they couldn’t vote against FDR, and he did pick up three House seats…and after the election he began to move for the release of the Japanese.
b. FDR used war powers to censor and shut down magazines.
c. Many of his agencies were not under congressional authority…but directly controlled by the President.
If you need a primer on Woodrow Wilson, who made the US the first fascist nation.....let me know.