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User ID: 75835116 United States 03/05/2020 08:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Interesting history on mass surveillance before the revolution. The Patriot Act will expire on March 15. [ link to original.antiwar.com (secure)] "The United States was born in a defiant reaction to government surveillance. In the decade preceding the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the villains were the Stamp Act and the Writs of Assistance Act. Today, the villain is the Patriot Act. Here is the backstory. In 1765, when the British government was looking for creative ways to tax the colonists, Parliament enacted the Stamp Act. That law required all persons in the colonies to purchase stamps from a British government vendor and to affix them to all documents in one’s possession. These were not stamps as we use today, rather they bore the seal of the British government. The vendor would apply ink to the seal and for a fee – a tax – impress an image of the seal onto documents. All documents in one’s possession – financial, legal, letters, books, newspapers, pamphlets, even posters destined to be nailed to trees – required the government stamps. How did the British government, 3,000 miles away, know if one had its stamps on one’s documents? Answer: The Writs of Assistance Act. A writ of assistance was a general warrant issued by a secret court in London. A general warrant does not specifically describe the place to be searched or the person or thing to be seized. It merely authorized the bearer – a civilian or military government official – to search where he wished and seize whatever he found." |
Gofudgeoneself User ID: 78164197 United States 03/05/2020 09:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Repeal the Patriot Act It still boggles my mind that we won our independence to abolish the taxes of a tyrannical kingdom to then only enact the whiskey taxes (whiskey rebellion)that led us to General George Washington (Adam Weishaupt) to storming into to town to collect taxes from a bunch of Whiskey Mfgers... and here we are today, paying taxes to the State & the Fed never asking to see paper trails even though that trail most certainly leads to corrupt pockets. Not to schools not to streets not to health care not to the homeless crisis not to finding cures. Pure corruption |
Moses Born Again in L.A.
User ID: 74303024 United States 03/05/2020 09:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Repeal the Patriot Act |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77074089 United States 03/05/2020 09:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Repeal the Patriot Act You mean don’t be a Patriot?
Never! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77005803 United States 03/05/2020 09:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Repeal the Patriot Act |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 12811444 United States 03/05/2020 09:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Repeal the Patriot Act You mean don’t be a Patriot?
Never!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77074089 The Patriot act is an Orwellian name. It means the opposite of what it says. It effectively repeals the 4th Amendment. We didn't need that anyway, right? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77420690 United States 03/05/2020 09:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Repeal the Patriot Act |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77074089 United States 03/05/2020 09:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Repeal the Patriot Act You mean don’t be a Patriot?
Never!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77074089 The Patriot act is an Orwellian name. It means the opposite of what it says. It effectively repeals the 4th Amendment. We didn't need that anyway, right? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12811444 If you aren’t doing anything wrong you don’t need to worry, commie. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76177423 United States 03/05/2020 09:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Repeal the Patriot Act You mean don’t be a Patriot?
Never!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77074089 U niting and S trengthening A merica by P roviding A ppropriate T ools R equired to I ntercept and O bstruct T errorism Act of 2001 They called it the "Patriot Act" so ignorant schlubs like you wouldn't figure it out. |
anonymous coward User ID: 76076258 United States 03/05/2020 09:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Repeal the Patriot Act The Patriot Act has never been tested at the Supreme Court level. That is when it will go POOF! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77376498 United States 03/05/2020 09:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Repeal the Patriot Act You mean don’t be a Patriot?
Never!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77074089 The Patriot act is an Orwellian name. It means the opposite of what it says. It effectively repeals the 4th Amendment. We didn't need that anyway, right? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12811444 |
Philly Special
User ID: 48696927 United States 03/05/2020 09:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Repeal the Patriot Act You mean don’t be a Patriot?
Never!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77074089 The Patriot act is an Orwellian name. It means the opposite of what it says. It effectively repeals the 4th Amendment. We didn't need that anyway, right? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12811444 If you aren’t doing anything wrong you don’t need to worry, commie. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77074089 Sure, just trust the government because they never make mistakes or abuse power. AMIRITE? |
R&y
User ID: 74857141 United States 03/05/2020 10:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Repeal the Patriot Act
The Patriot Act has never been tested at the Supreme Court level. That is when it will go POOF!
Quoting: anonymous coward 76076258 Like obamacare? |