The Un- Patriot Act

I having been wishing to write about this subject for sometime. Today's news made it a lot easier, as now I have a reason to do so. It appears the U.S. Government has done just what it promised it wouldn't do with the enactment of the Patriot Act.
So named to make all those that would have voted against it feel un-patriotic. I just thank God that there are a few legislators like Senator Ron Paul, who took a lone stand against the act and it's passing in the beginning, he recognized it for what it really was - the Un-Patriot Act. Most Americans fell to the lie that this Act was to protect them from the big-bad terrorist out there, just waiting to kill them and their families. This is the way all totalitarian regimes have come into existence, is to be first fear mongers, create an atmosphere of fear, then use this to get people to give up their liberties under the pretention that they will be protected. For most Americans, they don't have a clue about history or world history or for that part American history. This is to their shame,for liberty is always protected by those that understand it the most, and understand that history repeats itself. Our forefathers and many others understood this, and without this understanding this country would have never come into existence. I would like to provide here a few quotes of some of the greats. Perhaps their words might ring a bell in someone's mind, what freedom is all about.


Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
- Benjamin Franklin

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb
contesting the vote!
- Benjamin Franklin

A patriot must always be ready to defend his
country against his government.
- Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you
do not wait until he has struck before you crush
him.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of
human freedom It is the argument of tyrants; it is
the creed of slaves.
- William Pitt (1759-1806)

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

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
--President Thomas Jefferson

Let's take the first quote, Ben Franklin understood, the police state, he lived under it when the British ruled this country. He understood, that the quickest way, to take over someone's freedom is to make a promise of security. Here, he expresses his love of Freedom over Security. What most people don't understand is that under British rule the government was provided unlimited search and seizure capabilities through what then was known as the "general warrant". This warrant allowed the police of the day- the British soldier to search anyone's home, and seize any evidence it deemed it wanted to, without probable cause or reason. The soldier could enter your home, determine where and when he wanted to search and take whatever he deemed he could use against you in a trial for sedition or being a traitor to British rule. So once the Consitution was passed, people like Patrick Henry who said "give me liberty or give me death, spent the next five years getting the Bill of Rights passed and added to the Constitution. He and his famiy died as a result of their charge for liberty. See, the Constitution alone would not gurantee, that a centralized government wouldn't destroy the very things upon which human life is dependent on to thrive and that is YOUR bill of rights.
Hitler, burnt the Rieschtag, claiming it was Russian terrorist who did it, the next day he passed the Emergency Powers Act (reads like the Patriot Act) and was made supreme ruler over Germany as a result. Do you see how history repeats itself?
Men will always grasp at power and absolute power, and as everyone knows absolute power, absolutely corrupts!
Thus, as in the above quote by William Abbey, "we must always be ready to defend our country against our government". He understood that all governemnt when given free rein will rule with an iron fist, not with the consensus of the people.
We have allowed the Bush regime to take away our last few remaining rights. It all started with the former Justice of the Supreme Court, William H. Rehnquist. Rehnquist was responsible for the majority vote that provided 11 exceptions to the law on search and seizure. Now, we find that he may have been stoned on drugs when he voted this way. Yet, Americans sat silently allowing year after year, Presidents to enact Executive Orders and Justices like Rehnquist, slowly but surely erode away the Bill of Rights, that protect us from tyrants. Now, we have a President, who to quote, made this very quote - "it would be easier if it was a dictatorship and I was the dictator" - George W. Bush- our President. Now, you can wash off these statements as baloney, but this is an actual recorded statement made by him. This only predisposes all that he has done since 911, to over rule the Congress- who only can declare war, and many other Executive Orders and Acts like the Un-Patriot Act to declare himself as dictator.
You may not like what I have to say here, but truth is truth.
Now it comes out that the following took place, as recorded by the AP news wire.

At issue are the security letters, a power outlined in the Patriot Act that the Bush administration pushed through Congress after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The letters, or administrative subpoenas, are used in suspected terrorism and espionage cases. They allow the FBI to require telephone companies, Internet service providers, banks, credit bureaus and other businesses to produce highly personal records about their customers or subscribers _ without a judge's approval.

About three-fourths of the national security letters were issued for counterterror cases, and the other fourth for spy investigations.

Fine's annual review is required by Congress, over the objections of the Bush administration.

The audit released Friday found that the number of national security letters issued by the FBI skyrocketed in the years after the Patriot Act became law.

In 2000, for example, the FBI issued an estimated 8,500 letters. By 2003, however, that number jumped to 39,000. It rose again the next year, to about 56,000 letters in 2004, and dropped to approximately 47,000 in 2005.

Over the entire three-year period, the FBI reported issuing 143,074 national security letters requesting customer data from businesses, the audit found. But that did not include an additional 8,850 requests that were never recorded in the FBI 's database, the audit found.

Also, Fine's audit noted, a 2006 report to Congress showing that the FBI delivered only 9,254 national security letters during the previous year _ on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents _ was only required to report certain types of requests for information. That report did not outline the full scope of the national security letter requests in 2005, nor was it required to, Fine's office said.

Additionally, the audit found, the FBI identified 26 possible violations in its use of the national security letters, including failing to get proper authorization, making improper requests under the law and unauthorized collection of telephone or Internet e-mail records.

The Patriot Act gave the government free run to access information on any American they deemed they wanted to investigate. A repeat of the British rule - "General Warrant". American people to their shame, did not heed the words of Abraham Lincoln as quoted here. "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves"
I would also like to make a similar quote that I remember the Communist leader Kruschev making, that they would never defeat us from without but would take us over from within. My friend, when Americans were duped into thinking the Patriot Act was patriotic they were throwing away the last bit of the Bill of Rights they had, and the enemy is within!

Dr. J