Our Civil Rights Are Dying

Never until 2001 have I seen such blatant disrespect for Americans' civil rights. The Bush administration is at the forefront of destroying our beloved democracy. They are constantly chipping away at our rights day after day.

I am radically opposed to The Patriot Act. I don't care that it allows our intelligence agencies to better obtain information on those who would attack us. Because it is doing so at the cost of our freedoms. Many of you who know my beliefs know that I believe the U.S. is far far from a free country (although I still believe it is the most free of all countries on earth). The Patriot Act makes this much much worse, giving the government radical power to invade our privacy.

Peep this article: FBI Patriot Act Plan Concerns Lawmakers. Look what this government can do, accessing everything which we hold private, including which books we take out of the library!

"Under the Patriot Act, the FBI issues more than 30,000 national security letters allowing the investigations each year, a hundred-fold increase over historic norms, The Washington Post reported Sunday (Nov 6th, 2005), quoting unnamed government sources.
The security letters, which were first used in the 1970s, allow access to people's phone and e-mail records, as well as financial data and the Internet sites they surf. The 2001 Patriot Act removed the requirement that the records sought be those of someone under suspicion."

This is on the level with communist states. Is terrorism such a threat that we are sacrificing what makes America free in the first place? I'm much more concerned about poverty, the economy, and my local communities than ever being even close to a place where a terrorist attacks. It is sad that the privacy of our citizens is constantly being destroyed.

The irony of all this is that this oppressive document is called The Patriot Act. It is just plain unconstitutional. Whereas I don't agree with everything the ACLU is for, they are right on the money with their constant opposition of the power that this document gives the government.

Yet Bush and his cronies used 9/11 to pass this document through congress, just as he is still using 9/11 to terrorize and scare the nation.

The FBI and CIA can monitor this webpage all they want. I'll speak out against these atrocities till they jail me or until I die. They can question my patriotism all they want. The fact remains that America is dying because of this administration. The sad part is that it took a natural disaster for people to realize that this administration is absolute garbage, when every decision they've made since 2000 has been utter crap.

Their policies on leading America into a war on false pretense (which we knew there were no WMD's before the war started), policies on the environment (i.e. global warming doesn't exist, and cutting EPA standards so Bush's friends get more scrilla), economic policies (tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts when the economy is failing, taking a budget surplus to record deficits, and creating the worst national debt in America's history), archaic illicit drug policies, and unrealistic Medicare and social security plans are all bigger blunders than his reponse to Hurricane Katrina, yet it took that particular disaster to turn America's minds against him. The list of failures just goes on and on and on. How ridiculous are the people who voted for him?

And oh yeah, shame on the conservative Christians who voted for this man (twice) just because he claims to be a Christian. The man was running for president, not to be a pastor at your local parish. And that's my rant for the day.