  urlLink American Civil Liberties Union : USA PATRIOT Act I've been sitting on this webpage for a few days and decided I was going to post it. After reading it, it all became clear about what the USA PATRIOT Act is and what it does. I urge everyone to read this page and become familiar with the USA PATRIOT Act and understand that the government can get into your personal and private information and NOT HAVE TO TELL YOU A DAMN THING ABOUT DOING IT.
Medical records, school records, criminal records, anything about you that is in a computer database or otherwise on record somewhere is now accessible for the government to sift through and there ain't a damn thing you can do to stop it. You can be jailed and incarcerated without DUE PROCESS OF LAW, which is a urlLink CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARDED PROVISION BY THE 14TH AMENDMENT .
Provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act (USPA) also allow surveillance without court order. Why? Why would the government exercise this kind of invasion of privacy? They will tell you that it is for security reasons. They want to stop potential terrorists (God, I hate the usage of that word in post-9/11 America. ) from doing something they haven't done yet. On the very surface, this would seem like a justified reason for having such an Act in place. However, little to people know that this Act was passed though Congress without as much as a single debate.
This is because virtually no one in Congress had read the bill before its emergency overnight passage and publication. Who are we or anybody else to judge people for things that have not yet come to pass? Innocent people all across the nation have been wrongfully accused of crimes of terror that have not happened.
Our government then will step up and say that they have thwarted another terrorist attack. Innocent people who are banned from boarding airplanes trying to get to home to their families locally or abroad because they have the same ethnic and religious backgrounds as those who crashed planes into skyscrapers (Bear in mind these are the few cases that see the light of the day. Another provision of the USPA Act: they don't have to announce to anyone of anything until criminal charges have already been made. So before the public knows what happened to you, you already have a blemish on your criminal record.).
The FAA has a blacklist of people all over the country who have been banned from flying. The FBI, the FAA, and every other government agency and the airliners who this list is shared with ARE NOT OBLIGATED ACCORDING TO THE USPA to share this list AND how these people ended up on the list. These are things that are hardly worth taking into consideration when profiling terrorists (Keep in mind that it was a Caucasian male AND A NATURAL BORN AMERICAN CITIZEN who blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in 1995).
While Georgie is preparing for his un-election, he's desperately trying to get the USPA made into permanent law (now it's only temporary) and that he's working additions to the USPA (Dubbed "Patriot 2"...woulda thought?). I'm not going to promote Michael Moore's new movie, urlLink Fahrenheit 9/11 , but I'm going to see it. I have never followed politics more closely in my entire life. To me, this next election holds in the balance the next four years of my life and to me they are pretty important ones to me because I am graduating college.
I'm going to be entering the work force with a college degree and I would like to see an improved America and a better economy when I go. I would urge everyone who is of voting age to go vote. Bush has given every voting American every single reason(i.e. The last for years of American history) to vote. Please go to the polls and stay current in national news. It's time for a new leader. Ronald Reagan Trivia Ronald Reagan is still dead. I'm kidding. Actually, Reagan had a photographic memory that helped him a lot in school and in his acting career.
How ironic is it that he died with Alzheimer's Disease? I would also like to point out that Reagan ran up the budget deficit and sent troops to die for pointless reasons. I guess history does repeat itself. I would laugh my ass off if the world revere's GW the same as Reagan when he dies. Todays' Quote "Those who are ready to give up some of their freedom in return for some security deserve neither security nor freedom". -Thomas Jefferson 
