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McConnell Introduces Bill To Extend NSA Surveillance
jriding sends word that the majority leader of the U.S. Senate has introduced a bill that would extend the surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act until 2020: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a bill Tuesday night to extend through 2020 a controversial surveillance authority under the Patriot Act. The move comes as a bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers is preparing legislation to scale back the government's spying powers under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. It puts McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the bill’s co-sponsor, squarely on the side of advocates of the National Security Agency’s continued ability to collect millions of Americans’ phone records each day in the hunt for clues of terrorist activity.
I vote both ways, but at least the Ds didn't claim to be pro-small government and then turn around and support this shit. Hypocrisy has a nasty stink about it.
the "American" government is slowing becoming communist!
Our "leaders" want books banned, surveillance on innocent people, and yet,
none of them have to abide by ANY law.
I have long suspected that McConnell is/has-become a communist -- I've always known
he was an idiot. Too bad the people of Kentucky don't realize that. An education would help them,
but then McConnell would surely put a stop to schools.
Guy gets student loan and goes to college, choosing to live in an expensive apartment and buys a car with his loan. While at college gets busted for smoking pot in his car in the college car park - after repeated warnings from parking wardens to go elsewhere were ignored because muh freedom of expression!
After 2 years of majoring in Social Studies with a specialisation in Activist Website Design, graduates with a bullshit qualification and quickly finds that web design shops aren't hiring based purely upon the sort of fedora one wears to an interview.
Now spends his/her/its afternoons complaining about their shitty life decisions that were made based upon the assumption that society wants yet another liberal arts major, while their parents try to pick up the pieces and pay off the car, house and student loans their child racked up.
Yup, sounds like a typical, whiny millenial to me!
I'd write more but I have to go pick up the car from the shop, and then drive it back to the job I have which helps to pay for my house, car and student loan, the latter of which I didn't piss away at University on booze, vehicles, drugs, fedoras and a useless degree.
Go back to reddit you moron.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'