Comments on: Patriot Act Loses Appeal

U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Ruling That Portions Of Act Are Unconstitutionally Vague

[clestes-2009]

Except for the Supreme court and the massive debt, both of which will haunt us for decades, by 2012 we may be rid of Bush''s unconstitutional laws.

Wouldn''t that be great! Going back to following the Founding Fathers ideas, based on the Constitution. Bush will become just a bad dream, fading over time.

[gunownerdan]

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny."
-- Thomas Paine

[gunownerdan]

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Ronald Reagan

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn''t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan

Government''s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Ronald Reagan

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Ronald Reagan

[omega39-2009]

The 9th court is controlled by Libs, which means the ruling is considered junk by other courts.
Posted by verifyuser at 03:12 PM : Dec 11, 2007

OMG....the 9th CIRCUS court!!! This whole article has immediately lost all credibility. Why would CBS even bother to print it?????

Posted by Infidel_Us

Instead of attacking the courts why don''t you whiners attack the boobs that hastily wrote a poorly worded bill and the flim-flam man that signed it into law? As I recall, the so called "conservative" USSC recently over-ruled a "military commission act" that was structured the same way.

[antoniof123]

Dumb neocons you are about as dumb as they come if only is good in the business world and even then it is suspect. Go back to school in this day and age you need more than a 3rd grade education. Of course the inbreeds that you are won''t help either.

[Krazcarl]

You mistook me for someone that cared that''s how all this trash gets through in the first place we weren''t duped we just didn''t care.

[gramto7]

Your whole post would make some sense if the Demonrats that have controlled Congress for over a year now repealed it. They have done nothing, so to blame the current admin. and the past GOP Congress is old news.
Posted by thgdriver
Thgdriver:
Try to keep up! The Democratic Congress may have been voted in a year ago November, but they did not take office until January. Therefore, it has not been "over a year" that they have been in office.

If the dam.ned republican twerps in Congress would actually do what is needed for this country instead of for their ''party'', we might actually get cra.p like the patriot act and military commisions act repealed.

[feelfree1]

Re: "That Portions Of Act Are Unconstitutionally Vague"

Anyone involved in crafting this fascistic act or for voting it into law, should face a lengthy prison sentence so that they can consider their dismal failure at defending and protecting our Constitution.

[rowdytexan2]

Yes, the language is vague, and the original writing of it was so edited for the purpose of being vague...

...especially the part about search warrants. When it was originally written, it said search warrants for premises outside the United States. When it was passed, the ''outside the United States'' wasn''t in there. They now have a right to come onto your property anytime they want to. All they have to do is say that you are a suspected terrorist, without any proof that you are, in fact, one. Terrorist is a very broad piece of terminology.

Unfortunately, most people don''t know where to go to see the legislation until it is actually passed and signed.

[infidel_us]

OMG....the 9th CIRCUS court!!! This whole article has immediately lost all credibility. Why would CBS even bother to print it?????