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- #61
You gave up the right to privacy. Having your phones monitored, the books you check out from the library, etc.Agreed on white supremacists, disagreed on the Patriot Act. The Act shredded the Constitution by empowering the Federal government and weakening individual rights.White supremacists say the same thing. As a matter of fact, ALL terrorist groups say the same thing. We really need the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001" reinstated.
Individual rights for whom, the bad guys?
For every citizen of this nation.
I'm a United States citizen. I never lost any rights.
Most of us have nothing to worry about but such information can be misused. What if a President or administration decides to use such info against those perceived as political enemies? It's not wise to empower a virtually all-powerful government with even more power. Weakening individual rights is all we have left.
President Ford reiterated a good quote before Congress in 1974:
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
While I was not worried, I was pissed. I value my privacy, as everyone should. Thank you for explaining it to him. Saves me typing.