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Section-by-Section Analysis of PATRIOT II
SlappyCat writes "The ACLU has a Section-by-Section Analysis of Justice Department draft 'Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003', also known as 'PATRIOT Act II'. This is scary stuff if it gets passed."
Great idea... abolishing a lot of juidical process. This will make it much more easier to bring those terrorists to justice.
Don't know why the western civilisation came up with such a cumbersome process in the last 4 centuries (with some regional and temporal exceptions)
I like especially Section 501. Reminds me somehow of
"All Animals are equal, but some Animals are more equal than others"
Or in this case:
All Americans are equal, but some Americans are less equal than others
Greetings, Mr. McCarthy, um.. sorry, Mr. Ashcroft.
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
The US governemnt is already doing some of these things. Back in October they deported a Canadian Citizen travelling from Tunisia, where he was vacationing, back home to Montreal.
During his stop over in New York, they discovered he was born in Syria, so they arrested him, and put him on a plane to Syria (despite being a Canadian Citizen). Since the law in Syria requires men over 18 to perform military service (he left when he was still pre-teen), Syrian Police locked him up for not performing his duty. He's been there ever since.
Nice, eh!
I wonder what kind of backlash would happen if something similar happened to an American Citizen while travelling through Canada. Perhaps then the American people will awake.
Is this a dream?
No, dubiously, this is reality.
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain