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Section-by-Section Analysis of PATRIOT II

Posted by michael on from the last-refuge-of-scoundrels dept.

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."

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  1. Where this sits... by valkraider · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shouldn't this make the front page? We put blather on the front page about scented cloth... (I'll show you scented cloth buddy...)

  2. Re:Change of metaphors by Dr+Caleb · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Secret arrests? Secret searches? Secret trials?

    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