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One individual told me these are just generalizations, rather than
examples of what the law does.
Excuse me?
Ummm...the Bill of Rights has been shredded.
I have a .44 Ruger Blackhawk loaded with "generalizations." Does
anybody need to know what it "does?"
[The same guy using a different alias?]told me "prove it" when I
stated that Congress didn't even have copies of the bill before they
ratified it into law.
--People do watch the news and actually remember.
Some of the "generalizations" of the USA PATRIOT Act:
1) 4th Amendment: Protection from Unlawful Search and Seizure
Now any Law Enforcemrent Agency need only tell a judge that
they need a search warrant, and the judge
must issue them a BLANK warrant.
They don't have to specify exactly what is to be searched for and
seized;
they can fill that in later after the "fishing expedition."
"Among other things, it mandates that judges give police search
warrants when they ask for them, for any reason. In fact, judges can't
deny these warrants to police, because police don't need a stated
reason to ask for them."
"The USA Patriot Act, now passed and the law of the land, has
eliminated the Constitutional guarantee of probable cause when
investigating a crime, and now allows the police -- at any time and
for
any reason -- to enter and search your house, your files, your bank
account -- and not even tell you about it."
http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/tradecencrimes/Patriot_Act.htm
* It expands the ability of the government to conduct secret
searches -- again in anti-terrorism investigations and in routine
criminal investigations unrelated to terrorism. [Unrelated to
terrorism -- that means anything they want it to mean...]
* It grants the FBI broad access to sensitive medical, financial,
mental health, and educational records about individuals without
having to show evidence of a crime and without a court order. [It
means they can do what they want for no good reason...]
1. The USA Patriot Act allows the government to use its intelligence
gathering power to circumvent the standard that must be met for
criminal wiretaps. Currently FISA surveillance, which does not contain
many of the same checks and balances that govern wiretaps for criminal
purposes, can be used only when foreign intelligence gathering is the
primary purpose. The new law allows use of FISA surveillance authority
even if the primary purpose were a criminal investigation.
Intelligence surveillance merely needs to be only a "significant"
purpose. This provision authorizes unconstitutional physical searches
and wiretaps: though it is searching primarily for evidence of crime,
law enforcement conducts a search without probable cause of crime.
2. The USA Patriot Act extends a very low threshold of proof for
access to Internet communications that are far more revealing than
numbers dialed on a phone. Under current law, a law enforcement agent
can get a pen register or trap and trace order requiring the telephone
company to reveal the numbers dialed to and from a particular phone.
To get such an order, law enforcement must simply certify to a judge
--
who must grant the order -- that the information to be obtained is
"relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation." This is a very low
level of proof, far less than probable cause. This provision
apparently applies to law enforcement efforts to determine what
websites a person had visited, which is like giving law enforcement
the power -- based only on its own certification -- to require the
librarian to report on the books you had perused while visiting the
public library. This provision extends a low standard of proof -- far
less than probable cause -- to actual "content" information.
4. The Act also grants the FBI broad access in "intelligence"
investigations to records about a person maintained by a business. The
FBI need only certify to a court that it is conducting an intelligence
investigation and that the records it seeks may be relevant. With this
new power, the FBI can force a business to turn over a person's
educational, medical, financial, mental health and travel records
based on a very low standard of proof and without meaningful judicial
oversight.
The ACLU noted that the FBI already had broad authority to monitor
telephone and Internet communications. Most of the changes apply not
just to surveillance of terrorists, but instead to all surveillance in
the United States.
The Act also allows for the broad sharing of sensitive information in
criminal cases with intelligence agencies, including the CIA, the NSA,
the INS and the Secret Service. It permits sharing of sensitive grand
jury and wiretap information without judicial review or any safeguards
regarding the future use or dissemination of such information.
* It puts the CIA and other intelligence agencies back in the
business of spying on Americans by giving the Director of Central
Intelligence the authority to identify priority targets for
intelligence surveillance in the United States. [This is what
America worked so hard for all those years to eliminate.]
* [It keeps judges out the process and lets cops do what they want
(cops meaning FBI, CIA, etc.)] It minimizes judicial supervision
of telephone and Internet surveillance by law enforcement
authorities in anti-terrorism investigations and in routine
criminal investigations unrelated to terrorism. [Unrelated to
terrorism -- that means anything. How long do you think before that
includes political dissent?...]
2) 5th and 6th Amendments - Due Process of Law.
* Violates the Fifth Amendment by allowing for indefinite
incarceration without trial for those deemed by the Attorney
General to be threats to national security. The Fifth Amendment
guarantees that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or
property without due process of law, and the Patriot Act does away
with due process. It even allows people to be kept in prison for
life without even a trial.
* It creates a broad new definition of "domestic terrorism" that
could sweep in people who engage in acts of political protest and
subject them to wiretapping and enhanced penalties. [This means
they can jail anyone who disagrees with them, and keep them in
jail for life without a trial.]
* Violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of the right to a speedy
and public trial. Now you may get no trial at all, ever.
**********************************
* Violates the Eighth Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment).
* Violates the 13th Amendment (punishment without conviction).
The law also creates a new crime of "domestic terrorism." The new
offense threatens to transform protesters into terrorists if they
engage in conduct that "involves acts dangerous to human life."
Members of Operation Rescue, the Environmental Liberation Front and
Greenpeace, for example, have all engaged in activities that could
subject them to prosecution as terrorists. Then, under this law, the
dominos begin to fall. Those who provide lodging or other assistance
to these "domestic terrorists" could have their homes wiretapped and
could be prosecuted.
[If you have any doubt that these are the trappings of a police state,
then you need to go back to elementary school and read about the
Constitution, which we no longer have.]
http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/tradecencrimes/Patriot_Act.htm
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Main Page:
http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/tradecencrimes
One individual told me these are just generalizations, rather than
examples of what the law does.
Excuse me?
Ummm...the Bill of Rights has been shredded.
I have a .44 Ruger Blackhawk loaded with "generalizations." Does
anybody need to know what it "does?"
[The same guy using a different alias?]told me "prove it" when I
stated that Congress didn't even have copies of the bill before they
ratified it into law.
--People do watch the news and actually remember.
Some of the "generalizations" of the USA PATRIOT Act:
1) 4th Amendment: Protection from Unlawful Search and Seizure
Now any Law Enforcemrent Agency need only tell a judge that
they need a search warrant, and the judge
must issue them a BLANK warrant.
They don't have to specify exactly what is to be searched for and
seized;
they can fill that in later after the "fishing expedition."
"Among other things, it mandates that judges give police search
warrants when they ask for them, for any reason. In fact, judges can't
deny these warrants to police, because police don't need a stated
reason to ask for them."
"The USA Patriot Act, now passed and the law of the land, has
eliminated the Constitutional guarantee of probable cause when
investigating a crime, and now allows the police -- at any time and
for
any reason -- to enter and search your house, your files, your bank
account -- and not even tell you about it."
http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/tradecencrimes/Patriot_Act.htm
* It expands the ability of the government to conduct secret
searches -- again in anti-terrorism investigations and in routine
criminal investigations unrelated to terrorism. [Unrelated to
terrorism -- that means anything they want it to mean...]
* It grants the FBI broad access to sensitive medical, financial,
mental health, and educational records about individuals without
having to show evidence of a crime and without a court order. [It
means they can do what they want for no good reason...]
1. The USA Patriot Act allows the government to use its intelligence
gathering power to circumvent the standard that must be met for
criminal wiretaps. Currently FISA surveillance, which does not contain
many of the same checks and balances that govern wiretaps for criminal
purposes, can be used only when foreign intelligence gathering is the
primary purpose. The new law allows use of FISA surveillance authority
even if the primary purpose were a criminal investigation.
Intelligence surveillance merely needs to be only a "significant"
purpose. This provision authorizes unconstitutional physical searches
and wiretaps: though it is searching primarily for evidence of crime,
law enforcement conducts a search without probable cause of crime.
2. The USA Patriot Act extends a very low threshold of proof for
access to Internet communications that are far more revealing than
numbers dialed on a phone. Under current law, a law enforcement agent
can get a pen register or trap and trace order requiring the telephone
company to reveal the numbers dialed to and from a particular phone.
To get such an order, law enforcement must simply certify to a judge
--
who must grant the order -- that the information to be obtained is
"relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation." This is a very low
level of proof, far less than probable cause. This provision
apparently applies to law enforcement efforts to determine what
websites a person had visited, which is like giving law enforcement
the power -- based only on its own certification -- to require the
librarian to report on the books you had perused while visiting the
public library. This provision extends a low standard of proof -- far
less than probable cause -- to actual "content" information.
4. The Act also grants the FBI broad access in "intelligence"
investigations to records about a person maintained by a business. The
FBI need only certify to a court that it is conducting an intelligence
investigation and that the records it seeks may be relevant. With this
new power, the FBI can force a business to turn over a person's
educational, medical, financial, mental health and travel records
based on a very low standard of proof and without meaningful judicial
oversight.
The ACLU noted that the FBI already had broad authority to monitor
telephone and Internet communications. Most of the changes apply not
just to surveillance of terrorists, but instead to all surveillance in
the United States.
The Act also allows for the broad sharing of sensitive information in
criminal cases with intelligence agencies, including the CIA, the NSA,
the INS and the Secret Service. It permits sharing of sensitive grand
jury and wiretap information without judicial review or any safeguards
regarding the future use or dissemination of such information.
* It puts the CIA and other intelligence agencies back in the
business of spying on Americans by giving the Director of Central
Intelligence the authority to identify priority targets for
intelligence surveillance in the United States. [This is what
America worked so hard for all those years to eliminate.]
* [It keeps judges out the process and lets cops do what they want
(cops meaning FBI, CIA, etc.)] It minimizes judicial supervision
of telephone and Internet surveillance by law enforcement
authorities in anti-terrorism investigations and in routine
criminal investigations unrelated to terrorism. [Unrelated to
terrorism -- that means anything. How long do you think before that
includes political dissent?...]
2) 5th and 6th Amendments - Due Process of Law.
* Violates the Fifth Amendment by allowing for indefinite
incarceration without trial for those deemed by the Attorney
General to be threats to national security. The Fifth Amendment
guarantees that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or
property without due process of law, and the Patriot Act does away
with due process. It even allows people to be kept in prison for
life without even a trial.
* It creates a broad new definition of "domestic terrorism" that
could sweep in people who engage in acts of political protest and
subject them to wiretapping and enhanced penalties. [This means
they can jail anyone who disagrees with them, and keep them in
jail for life without a trial.]
* Violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of the right to a speedy
and public trial. Now you may get no trial at all, ever.
**********************************
* Violates the Eighth Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment).
* Violates the 13th Amendment (punishment without conviction).
The law also creates a new crime of "domestic terrorism." The new
offense threatens to transform protesters into terrorists if they
engage in conduct that "involves acts dangerous to human life."
Members of Operation Rescue, the Environmental Liberation Front and
Greenpeace, for example, have all engaged in activities that could
subject them to prosecution as terrorists. Then, under this law, the
dominos begin to fall. Those who provide lodging or other assistance
to these "domestic terrorists" could have their homes wiretapped and
could be prosecuted.
[If you have any doubt that these are the trappings of a police state,
then you need to go back to elementary school and read about the
Constitution, which we no longer have.]
http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/tradecencrimes/Patriot_Act.htm
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