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Originally posted by theking
I am fully aware of what the Patriot act is about (I read it when it was first passed)...and I am also fully aware that the Supreme court has curtailed parts of it...and when contested I am satisfied that more of it will not stand.
I have not personally be impacted by the Patriot act and I do not know anyone that has been. My post asked the question..."who here has been personally impacted by his Presidency and how?" Thus far no one has stated that they have been personally impacted and/or knows anyone that has been.
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My father has been impacted. My father is a steward in the union at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. For 20 years he has been fighting for equal rights for workers, overtime equality, working to end discrimination against women in the shop, etc etc. The government has set into motion an act that will basically undermine things the union has been working for for years. Here is where it gets really cool. The government says that unless the union can present a legit case against this act by a certain date, the laws will be passed uncontested. Now, when the union asks for information and paperwork that they need from the government to use in their case, they are stonewalled and told that they cannot have access to certain records and paperwork due to an issue of "homeland security". Now, all the government has to do is wait it out and keep stonewalling and their law is passed. I can ask my father for some paper work and links if you would like to verify that this is indeed going on but this is the basic jist of the matter. Everyone is impacted. Some people just don't realize it yet.