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Originally posted by kenny
Prehaps it was ignorant but my understanding was that it could only be enforced towards terrorist activity. Which in that case it doesn't effect me. However I never read the bill and didn't think that a door was left open allowing them to use it for any old reason.
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The way that I read it, it also can be used to catch the common criminal, and I do not have a problem with that and any honest, above board citizen should not have a problem with the Patriot Act either.
As I stated the Congress can, and has in the past, over turned legislation, but most usually they modify legislation and the Supreme Court is still the ultimate arbiter of what is legal and what is not legal for the government to do. If there are abuses, and there probably will be, these abuses will be dealt with.