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U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the get-used-to-it dept.

Rick Zeman writes "In the wake of today's 4 dud bombings in London, the U.S. House has voted to extend the Patriot Act by a vote of 257-171. This includes 10-year extensions to the two other provisions set to expire on December 31, one allowing roving wiretaps, and another allowing searches of library and medical records."

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  1. ZOMG! by Sr.+Pato · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hm, maybe I should brush up on my national anthems.
    *ahem*

    Oh, Canada,
    Our home and native land,...

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  2. Re:It's for the children! by tehlinux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those damn terrorists will stop at nothing to rob us of our freedoms. The terrorists came up with the patriot act, right?

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  3. Re:It's for the children! by Caine · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the voters of Podunk want to run a library that distributes translations of the Canterbury Tales in Swedish, that's their right.

    This might shock you, but where I live this have already started to happen. The public libraries are spreading their filthy swedish propaganda; almost all the books are in swedish now. And there's nothing the government can do to stop it. That is, without the Patriot Act. So support the Patriot Act and free us from the swedish menace!

    ...Hm. Oh wait. I live in Sweden. Nevermind...

  4. Re:Allow me to be the first by Capsaicin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh please, this is just typical liberal socialist scare mongering.

    Remember, if you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. Well maybe if you are mistaken for someone who is doing someone wrong, or ... if you have a close relative who is doing something wrong, or ... if you once spoke to that guy who ...

    Anyway, as I was saying, if you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about. This is for your protection, after all.

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  5. The U.S. involved? by Mal-2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if the detonators went off but the explosives didn't because of some fuck-up in converting metric units to Imperial... then maybe you could believe the U.S. was involved.

    Mal-2

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