"There have been no abuses of the Patriot Act"(congress votes to renew it)
 

The permanent Patriot Act passed it's first hurdle (Congress) today.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstor...20050714c.html

The article above quotes that there has been no abuse of the existing act.

The article below refers to making contested sections of the act good for 10 years (then reviewed for renewal) instead of permanent a "concession" by Republicans...
http://www.rednova.com/news/general/...n_patriot_act/
The other contested section was about "roving wiretaps", which basically boils down to "one warrant fits all". This means that if they get a warrant to wiretap your phone they can wiretap any friends/family/others they deem you are suspected of using a phone at.

I'll address the couple of Republican cheerleaders that will come along and accuse me of being paranoid, Republican bashing or obviously worried about my own activities by reminding them that the government often refers to adult businesses as "money laundrying" and that is pretty much a free ticket excuse for any investigator since it is the way they often claim that terrorists are being funded. Hopefully if any investigation happens to you as a result of activist prosecutions (Google Pat Trueman, obscenitycrimes.org, RFC, AFA) nobody who's phone you use will say anything that could get them investigated. I don't see anything in the regulations that prevents it.

No abuses of the patriot act, huh? I guess strip club owners are considered terrorists now. (google for Michael Galardi)

i sale short patriot acts

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_ho.../22521283.html

The investigation of strip club owner Michael Galardi and numerous politicians appears to be the first time federal authorities have used the Patriot Act in a public corruption probe.

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Congress intended the Patriot Act to help federal authorities root out threats from terrorists and spies after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

"The law was intended for activities related to terrorism and not to naked women," said Reid, who as minority whip is the second most powerful Democrat in the Senate.

I guess this won't be important to anybody until its their business thats getting investigated.

You guys aren't playing along properly. The rewritten version is there has been no abuse and you are just being bitter by bringing up old crap :winkwink:

It's the old, "and when they came for me" syndrome. :Oh crap

Jose Padilla.

yep and very very scary