{"id":15298,"date":"2015-05-23T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15298"},"modified":"2015-05-23T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T19:23:08","slug":"it-always-was-unpatriotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/23\/it-always-was-unpatriotic\/","title":{"rendered":"It Always Was Unpatriotic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Patriot Act, which I have always called the Unpatriot Act, is so vast complex that writing it could not have been done in less than six months.  Yet the Republican Reich had it ready to shove down peoples throats less than a week after 9\/11.  Neocons at AEI and PNAC must have prepared it months in advance in hopes that a \u201cPearl Harbor incident\u201d would give them an opportunity to gut the Constitutional Rights of the American people.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0523patriot-act\"After a post-midnight vote Saturday, the U.S. Senate took no action<\/a> to extend or revise the National Security Agency\u2019s controversial phone data surveillance program, and the program along with other sections of the Patriot Act will expire as planned on June 1. <\/p>\n

\u201cSunsetting the Patriot Act is the biggest win for ending mass surveillance programs, and one that conventional DC wisdom said was impossible. We are seeing history in the making and it was because the public stood up for our rights to freedom of expression and freedom of association \u2014 and there\u2019s no turning back now,\u201d Tiffiniy Cheng, co-founder of Fight for the Future, an anti-government surveillance group said in a news release.<\/p>\n

A cohort of House members including government surveillance critic Rep. Rand Paul (R-KY) rejected Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell\u2019s (R-KY) proposed amendments to the bill that would extend the program, the Washington Post reported<\/a>. The Senate could not muster the 60 votes needed to move forward with the NSA reform bill, the USA Freedom Act, passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last week. <\/p>\n

The failed 57-42 procedural vote early Saturday blocked the only bill that could prevent a complete shutdown of the NSA\u2019s metadata program. The bill also would have been a compromise<\/a> with the White House and civil liberties advocates to limit the government\u2019s data collection abilities under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. <\/p>\n

With Congress now in recess until after the Memorial Day holiday, the NSA will dismantle its program so that no new data queries can be made after June 1\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

It always was unpatriotic.  At least for now, good riddance!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Patriot Act, which I have always called the Unpatriot Act, is so vast complex that writing it could not have been done in less than six months.  Yet the Republican Reich had it ready to shove down peoples throats less than a week after 9\/11.  Neocons at AEI and PNAC must have prepared it […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}