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04-06-2007, 07:50 PM | #33 | |
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The civil rights I am talking about are mostly privacy issues. Please don't tell me you are one of those "If you're not doing anything wrong, what does it matter?" people. One example is the Patriot Act. The government can look at your library records, internet searches, banking records, travel, credit card transactions. If they "think" you are a terrorist, they may be able to listen in on your conversations with your lawyer. They can also hold you without charging you or letting you speak to a lawyer. Protesting rights have also been reduced. Domestic wiretapping is another issue that causes me great concern. |
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2. What protesting rights have been reduced? 3. When you say domestic wire tapping, are you talking about the tapping of calls where one of the parties to the call is a known terrorist or something else?
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I don't think she would "save" us. She may slow or stop the bleeding on the Bush and Republican Congress abuses. If I have to give more of my hard earned dollars to their bleeding heart social policies, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. I don't like it, but I'd rather be free and poor.
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The protesting rights- I'm most concerned about being told when and where we can protest. Also, permits are required in some areas. The wiretapping I am talking about is where one of the parties in not a known terrorist. The ones done without a judge's order. I don't think you can trust government agencies and law enforcement to decide when a wire tap is necessary. I think the government needs to be on an extremely short leash on all privacy issues. In my opinion, the government rarely works in our best interest. It's sole purpose seems to be to grab more power and control. |
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I don't know that most Americans are affected directly by the PATRIOT act. I don't think we're all being wiretapped or monitored by satellite surveillance. (Of course we wouldn't know if we were.) But the PATRIOT act has made enormous work for libraries. One of the provisions is that library records can be seized at any time, and librarians are not allowed to disclose whether the feds have or have not seized records. Librarians tend to zealously guard the privacy of their users, so the result has been an industry-wide effort to change policy and procedure to protect the user. This has meant an increase in work and expense. It's hard to explain this in such a way that any normal person would care, but the point is that yes, for some Americans day-to-day life has changed. (end rant.) Next topic: Most Americans are probably not affected much, but I've had coworkers (American citizens) whose lives have become made more difficult due to the fact that they have Muslim names, and the PATRIOT act allows for profiling. |
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