Comments on: Feingold Leads Senate Fight against Sneak-and-Peek, Other PATRIOT Act Excess http://theparagraph.com/2009/10/feingold-leads-senate-fight-against-sneak-and-peek-other-patriot-act-excess/ Terse news, history and science. Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:15:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew http://theparagraph.com/2009/10/feingold-leads-senate-fight-against-sneak-and-peek-other-patriot-act-excess/comment-page-1/#comment-25216 Andrew Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:31:13 +0000 http://theparagraph.com/?p=429#comment-25216 Hear, hear! It's about time somebody started to rein in this shameful abuse of our constitutional rights. It seems like as a society we're becoming increasingly reactionary. When a shocking event such as 9/11 occurs the call goes up: "We need more power, more tools!" When in fact, 225+ years of history and experience has given us the tools, we just need to apply them. No one has yet presented a shred of evidence that any provision of the PATRIOT act would have made the slightest difference on 9/11. The way forward lies in being smarter, not sneakier. Hear, hear! It’s about time somebody started to rein in this shameful abuse of our constitutional rights.

It seems like as a society we’re becoming increasingly reactionary. When a shocking event such as 9/11 occurs the call goes up: “We need more power, more tools!” When in fact, 225+ years of history and experience has given us the tools, we just need to apply them. No one has yet presented a shred of evidence that any provision of the PATRIOT act would have made the slightest difference on 9/11. The way forward lies in being smarter, not sneakier.

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