Thursday, June 09, 2005

Patriot Act

President Bush is pushing for an extension of the Patriot Act and "his administration also is seeking greater powers for the FBI to subpoena records in terrorism investigations without the approval of a judge or grand jury."

What we have is a full-blown assault on the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. It is intended to protect against "unreasonable searches and seizures".

As history has proven, these piecemeal grabs of personal liberty will do nothing to make us safer and will only move us closer and closer to fascism:

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin


"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." --Abraham Lincoln


"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison, June 16, 1788



"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier -- so long as I'm the dictator." -- George W. Bush, Dec. 19, 2000


"There ought to be limits to freedom." -- George W. Bush, May 21, 1999

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