The PATRIOT Act Revisited

Three provisions to the PATRIOT Act are due to expire at the end of this month. They are (courtesy of DownsizeDC.org):

1. Business Records: allows searches on your personal data without
your knowledge if the FBI convinces a judge it is "relevant" to a
terrorism investigation. The data could be computer-related,
financial, medical, or even your library check-out history

2. Lone Wolf: allows the federal government to spy on a foreign
person with no known ties to a foreign government or terrorist group
-- a power that's never been used

3. Roving Wiretap: allows federal agents to intercept phone
conversations without having to specify the person being investigated
or which phone is being used

Some are reporting that the new jobs bill being drafted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid includes the renewal of the PATRIOT Act.  But these draconian provisions don't need to be passed again!

Re: Cloture Vote on Obamacare

I'm up late watching CNN's surprisingly critical coverage of the party-line passage of the cloture bill on debate regarding the "health reform," bill in the Senate. I think their ire may be coming for all the wrong reasons, (establishmentarian David Gergen is whining about how the lack of 'bipartisanship' in the "historic" bill defiles the nation state he worships) though I appreciate it nonetheless. 

But what irritated me most tonight was watching  pro-war Democreep Senators lecture those opposed to the bill about "human rights," and doing things "on principle," regardless of undesirable consequences.  Harry Reid claimed that his conscience is too strong to "look away," when people die from their lack of health care, but he certainly managed to do so when he voted for Bush's war of aggression on Iraq and the resultant mass murder of innocents. You make me sick, Harry -- and your awful "health reform" hasn't even been implemented yet!

By the way, isn't it sleazy how the Dems are trying to ram through this incredibly expensive bill through over the Holiday Season, with the final version perhaps coming on Christmas Eve? This is politics as usual, not change.

Harry Reid Compares opponents of ObamaCare to Supporters of Slavery

What classless race baiting... Is this dude really so desperate for attention, in light of the much more telegenic and articulate Obama running the show?

Though my biggest beef with Mr. Reid is his personal sanctioning of mass murder, I can't imagine why this "slavery" rhetoric is considered responsible and civil by the state-friendly media --that is, the same guys who demonize Paulians, libertarians, Constitutionalists, and anyone else opposed to the government's wars, theft, and politicians as "extremist."