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Comparing PATRIOT Act Bills
November 16, 2009 - by Donny ShawVia Wired’s Threat Level blog, here’s a handy chart (.pdf) prepared by the Center for Democracy and Technology comparing the two bills in Congress to reauthorize and amend the expiring PATRIOT Act, and how they compare to current law.
You can also learn more about the bills on OpenCongress:
- Senate version: S. 1692 – USA PATRIOT Act Sunset and Extension Act of 2009.
- House version: H.R. 3856 – National Security Letter Reform Act of 2009.
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Civil liberties are rights in Freedom that protect an individual from the government of the nation in which they reside. Civil liberties set limits on government so that its members cannot abuse their power and interfere unduly with the lives of private citizens. Common civil liberties include the rights of people, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, and additionally, the right to due process, to a trial, to own property, and to privacy. The USA PATRIOT Act is in violation of our Civil Liberties and should have never been created as it also overrides our Constitution thus making it a new Constitution of many violations such as listening to citizens phone calls, reading their email, etc. This country should never exchange Civil Liberties over Safety this nation has fought wars in the past and we as a people never had a new set of rules or even a new Constitution for that matter.
Big Government is a problem and we need to down size it and we the people need to take back what is ours what has been taking away from us our old Constitution created by our four barriers please if anyone is reading my comments Democrat or Republican don’t allow this to get swept under the rug due to our attention on the health care debate.