It seems that US lawmakers can't get the cojones to roll back the attack on the bill of rights and the constitution and are once again extending the Patriot Act. They ought to just bite the bullet and make the extension permanent or roll it back in its entirety. The ACLU takes a slightly different approach and suggests that the US public should write their congress critters and request that it be repealed.
Really? The US Congress will listen to the people who write? How does that work? I write, some intern read my message and aggregates it into the report for the congress critter. The critter glances at the summary page of the report and then asks his or her main campaign contributors how to vote. Yeah, that works well. Perhaps the net result is that the critter gets to ask for a bigger contribution.
Wired's Treat Level blog has a number of articles discussing the problems with the act, its implementation, and its use.
- Lawmakers Punt Again on Patriot Act Reform
- House Fails to Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers
- Congress Punting on Patriot Act Reform
- House Extends Key Patriot Act Provisions
- Patriot Act Extension Lands on Obama’s Desk
- Senate Extends Patriot Act Spy Bill
- FBI Tried to Cover Patriot Act Abuses
- Lawmakers Punt Patriot Act to Obama
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