Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror (politico.eu)

schwit1 writes: Jim Sensenbrenner, former chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, was one of the driving forces behind the Patriot Act. He introduced the legislation a month and a half after the Sept. 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, and in 2013 he led the charge to scale back its powers, after Edward Snowden's revelations. Now, in the wake of the tragedy in Paris, Sensenbrenner is warning the EU that sweeping surveillance measures are not a proper response. Sensenbrenner said, "The cautionary tale is that democracy depends upon a respect for civil liberties. ... Talking about it in practical terms, the answer is to target the people which you know are up to bad stuff rather than bringing in the 99.8 percent of the inhabitants there, including the vast majority of followers of Islam, who have no intention whatsoever of conducting a terrorist attack."

Comments

Re:Exactly Right

[Anonymous Coward]

But you don't understand - if EVERYONE was armed then you'd only have a few people getting shot every day until the suicidal killer is killed, rather than in countries where guns are harder to access in which you have a few people shot every few months until the suicidal killer is killed.

Re: It's time...

[smooth wombat]

there could quite possibly be another Holocaust towards the Muslims

If that happens, one can be assured Israel will say or do nothing, just as they did with Srebrenica or the near-concentration camps in Bosnia which the Serbs created.

It's only the Jews which have had bad things happen to them and they will keep reminding people regardless if the same is done to others or if they do the same things to others.