surprisingly, the critics of this who say congress didnt understand it haven't read/understood this document either. they just hear the main gist, and make stupid assumptions, or they just hear what other people say and repeat it without thinking. the patriot act doesnt say it can tap anyone, or get a warrant without any evidence whatsoever, or arrest anyone for no reason at all. It loosens restrictions that have been a big problem in preventing things from actually getting done. it also has a big part of making the way for intelligence agencies to share/give information to the proper departments and agencies in order to be effective for once and stop fucking around.
fact: the terrorist who was planning to knock down/destroy the Brooklyn bridge was arrested thanks to the Patriot Act. He was being tapped, and the word Brooklyn Bridge came up often. Pre-Patriot Act: courts would have asked when is this attack? how is it going to be attacked?...dont know? no warrant. But the information was turned to the NYPD, extra enforcement placed on the bridge, and then wire taps revealed the guy backing off because there was too much heat and security. A raid of his apartment showed shematics and plans on how he planned on destroying the bridge. You would know this if you read a newspaper, watched the news...anything. I hope plenty of you critics who drove across that bridge consider you could have been on that brdige with a terrorist cutting cables, blowing up the beams, or w/e, that wasnt caught with the aid of the Patriot Act. Numerous cells have been captured thanks to the Patriot Act.
fact: the terrorist who was planning to knock down/destroy the Brooklyn bridge was arrested thanks to the Patriot Act. He was being tapped, and the word Brooklyn Bridge came up often. Pre-Patriot Act: courts would have asked when is this attack? how is it going to be attacked?...dont know? no warrant. But the information was turned to the NYPD, extra enforcement placed on the bridge, and then wire taps revealed the guy backing off because there was too much heat and security. A raid of his apartment showed shematics and plans on how he planned on destroying the bridge. You would know this if you read a newspaper, watched the news...anything. I hope plenty of you critics who drove across that bridge consider you could have been on that brdige with a terrorist cutting cables, blowing up the beams, or w/e, that wasnt caught with the aid of the Patriot Act. Numerous cells have been captured thanks to the Patriot Act.
Im glad so many of you are ignorant, and yet critical, of the Patriot Act. Because if the Patriot Act did what you say it does, all of you would be arrested for criticizing it. And yet, you're still here.
by CP December 6, 2004
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After Obama's Election I went around giving the Patriot Act to all the retards that had a stupid smile on their faces.
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Yet another phrase used to whip people into a Bush-hating frenzy, the PATRIOT Act actually makes punishments against people who perform unauthorized wiretaps or use unauthorized listening devices harsher, thus PROTECTING people's privacy.
...but just try telling someone that.
...but just try telling someone that.
Person 1: So what exactly is the PATRIOT Act?
Person 2: THEY'RE STEALING YOUR RIGHTS! YOUR RIGHTS!
Person 1: Seriously? What rights did they steal? Do you even know what the PATRIOT Act does or are you just repeating stuff you heard from some crank online?
Person 2: ...
Person 1: Hello?
Person 2: CHICKENHAWK! YOU'RE SUPPORTING A MASS-MURDERER!
Person 1: What!?
Person 2: THEY'RE STEALING YOUR RIGHTS! YOUR RIGHTS!
Person 1: Seriously? What rights did they steal? Do you even know what the PATRIOT Act does or are you just repeating stuff you heard from some crank online?
Person 2: ...
Person 1: Hello?
Person 2: CHICKENHAWK! YOU'RE SUPPORTING A MASS-MURDERER!
Person 1: What!?
by Civan August 4, 2006
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Gov't Official: We're gonna search your library records for anything suspicious.
Person: Fine go ahead, Im not a fucking terrorist, I dont care. The Patriot Act doesnt effect me.
Person: Fine go ahead, Im not a fucking terrorist, I dont care. The Patriot Act doesnt effect me.
by PWH805 December 28, 2005
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Leftist college student: The Patriot Act is choking our liberties.
Me: Your liberties are not being choked. If what you said was true, the FBI would be down here and arrest you for saying stuff like that.
Student: That just what that fascist Bush wants you to believe.
Me: He's not a fascist. Fascists want to take your guns away. Republicans and conservatives value gun ownership. It is the democrats and the liberals who want to take your guns away. They are the real fascists.
Students: Uh, pardon me, fascism is right wing, like the nazis.
Me: Which confuses me, because nazi stands for national socialist. It's socialism, which is a leftist ideology, but on a national scale. So really, naziism is left wing.
Student: Whatever Michael Savage. (Walks away)
Me: Your liberties are not being choked. If what you said was true, the FBI would be down here and arrest you for saying stuff like that.
Student: That just what that fascist Bush wants you to believe.
Me: He's not a fascist. Fascists want to take your guns away. Republicans and conservatives value gun ownership. It is the democrats and the liberals who want to take your guns away. They are the real fascists.
Students: Uh, pardon me, fascism is right wing, like the nazis.
Me: Which confuses me, because nazi stands for national socialist. It's socialism, which is a leftist ideology, but on a national scale. So really, naziism is left wing.
Student: Whatever Michael Savage. (Walks away)
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by rente2121 October 20, 2009
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Come on people, as long as you live your life safe, go to work, pay your taxes and stay out of trouble (living a clean and simple life), this act doesn't effect you AT ALL. If you're a freaking radical muslim extremist, whose name is Mohammed Bin Al-Kazar, and you start checking out books from the libary on how to make bombs and start talking to your radical jihadist brothers over the phone about bombing America, then this act does effect you in every way.
Expand the mind a little bit people. Radical Muslims have declared Jihad on America and they will stop at nothing to kill us. The PATRIOT Act is why all the damn suicide bombings happen over seas, and not HERE.
Come on people, as long as you live your life safe, go to work, pay your taxes and stay out of trouble (living a clean and simple life), this act doesn't effect you AT ALL. If you're a freaking radical muslim extremist, whose name is Mohammed Bin Al-Kazar, and you start checking out books from the libary on how to make bombs and start talking to your radical jihadist brothers over the phone about bombing America, then this act does effect you in every way.
Expand the mind a little bit people. Radical Muslims have declared Jihad on America and they will stop at nothing to kill us. The PATRIOT Act is why all the damn suicide bombings happen over seas, and not HERE.
Worry free citizen: Oh I just checked out Harry potter from the library. After I get off work, I believe I shall go home and relax in the comfort of it. Meanwhile, the PATRIOT Act is protecting from people who want to take away my freedoms as a loving, Christian American.
Crazy Ass Radical Extremist: Oh I just checked out all three volumes on Bomb Making from the library! America is mine!!! PATRIOT Act is bad!!! Veto it!!! SILENCE!! I KILL YOU!!!!!!
Crazy Ass Radical Extremist: Oh I just checked out all three volumes on Bomb Making from the library! America is mine!!! PATRIOT Act is bad!!! Veto it!!! SILENCE!! I KILL YOU!!!!!!
by USAprotector March 10, 2008
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