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FBI Can Inspect Bank Records w/o Court Orders
AlexZander writes: "Thankfully, the so-called 'Patriot Act II' was discovered last year and the public outcry that ensued was enough to get the bill tossed out the window. One of the goals of that act, however, has made it into law under the radar of the community at large. However, on December 13th, President Bush signed Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (the relevant section is 374) into law, which among other things, grants the FBI the power to obtain financial information without a court order from a judge. It also expands the definition of 'financial information' to include car dealerships, jewelry stores, insurance companies, and other stretches of the definition of 'financial institution'. Wired News has the story here."
"The best parts about this is that the law prevents the business that gives up the information to the FBI from telling their customer about the request. Oh, that and the new law only requires a "national security letter" from a field agent stating that the information reqested is part of an investigation relevant to national security.
Yikes!"
What exactly would that mean?
He's going to France where everything is soooo much better.
It's one of those things where I clearly recognize the privacy invasion, but at the same time it doesn't really affect me personally as I don't have anything to hide.
I can see it helping them catch bad guys. I guess I don't mind the Bush administration's FBI having access, it's the next Democrat administration that bothers me. That's true for almost all patriot act stuff.
If I knew we were going to have conservatives in office for the rest of my lifetime I probably wouldn't mind it one bit.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
If you don't like the country you're living in then get the fuck out. Nobody is forcing you to live in America. I guarantee that you'll find America to be a much better place to live in than pretty much any other country.
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" -- Homer Simpson
It's things like these that make me glad to be Canadian. I bet you one day Canada will become what the founding fathers of America had visioned what the USA should be.
Let's be honest. France, and Europe in general, is much more egalitarian and pays much more attention to human rights than America does these days.
Tell that to Jean-Marie Le Pen. France is going to be the beginning of the ethnic nationalism once more, as people fed up with egalitarian bullshit. People realize that all people are NOT equal. It was a myth created as a tool of social control, it is as unnatural as green blood.
Paris is not at all representative of France as a whole, and I guarantee you within the next 10-20 years, every non-white person will be forced back to their country of origin. A solid 20% of the French population supports such a policy, when Paris becomes minority white in the next 10-20 years that percentage will rise even higher.
The same thing is true in the Netherlands.
Only someone subjected to years of propaganda could possibly admit that egalitarianism has done anything but destroy Europe. Fascism is the only possible savior of Europe, people are tired of the endless conflict, corruption, and decadence associated with democracy, nevermind sick egalitarian visions.
Europe is dying, its culture is dead, its people look with fondness on a past that seems but a distant memory. Their hearts yearn for the greatness and purpose of the days of old. White people are going to be a slight 1-2% of the world's popluation in just 50 years. In the heartland of Europe, England and France, white people will be a minority in their own homelands in that time. If you think egalitarianism is going to surmount those statistics, I think you are gravely mistaken.
No, I think the future is going to be very surprising for people such as yourself.
I don't read or respond to AC posts