Comments on: FBI Director Defends Patriot Act

Robert Mueller Tells Skeptical Senators FBI Can Use Anti-Terrorism Powers Properly

[observantx]

The unPatriot Act is the cause of this travesty. Congress paased it in a panic and barely half of them bothered to even read it. It installs a police state in our country.

IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE AMENDED OR MODIFIED. MUST BE REPEALED!

It is the most intrusive dictatorial bill ever to be passed by the Koolaid Kongress. It subverts our liberties granted by our Constitution and "emboldens" our Fearless Leader to spit in our faces when we ask about what were the true reasons for going into Iraq and what was the JUST US Department up to when they purged the less than loyal "Bushies" from the ranks of the US Attorneys.

The Patriot Act has to go. It is a smear of sh*t on our Constitution.

[tuckerndfw]

Why isn't Mueller being prosecuted for his admitted crimes?

It might have been a "mistake" that the FBI violated the law, but it is a crime.

Why is the Senate wasting time on this admitted criminal?

There is nothing to discuss, the "Patriot Act" should be repealed in its entirety.

And, Mueller should be in jail or out on bond pending trial, same as any other criminal.

[mcvett]

We need a Communist Revolution in the USA, sparky! Everbudy knows that reel Communism has never been tried.

We need to round up all republicans, neocons, etc. and send them all to re-educashun camps to teach them how to be politcaly corect. WE CANNOT TOLERATE DESENT, we need to imprison all conservatives until they convert to OUR way of thinking. When everbudy is politicaly corect and thinks like us, then we can all get along

Re-distribute monie from rich and give to the pour, that's what the rich diserve for wurking so hard. It isnt fare that people who wurk hard get payd more.

COMMUNIZE HEALTH CARE FIRST SPARKY, then energy, then corporations so that everbudy works for the state.

There is no god, only the state, WE know it takes a village, sparky!

Long live the gloreus peeples republic of amerika

[searingtruth]

"Tyranny is always preceded by the loss of just a 'little' liberty."
SearingTruth

"It is an old tale. Catastrophe assaults the senses of a free nation. Fear, a tyrant's only ally, is seized. Democracy, a despot's greatest foe, is assaulted. The people, liberties only defense, are subdued. All in accomplice of those sworn, upon death, to protect them."
SearingTruth

"We have become the evil we fought."
SearingTruth

A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

[nyckate]

notblue - yes the threat of radical islam is real - problem is we have a Presidential Administration with their heads so far up their you know what they can't do anything right - the fact is that the FBI ABUSED the Patriot Act -- the Patriot Act gave them much broader and wider legal means to investigate and even that wasn't far enough for them - they simply can't stand the US Constitution or the Bill of Rights - which is downright unpatriotic and downright Unamerican.


If you are this frightened that you are willing to destroy all that makes this republic of ours then you aren't fit to call yourself an American - it's that plain and simple.

Think about this - Al Queda wants to destroy America - and you and Bush are working with him to do that - Bin Laden hates and fears our democratic republic, our freedoms, our citizens rights, our constitution and our bill of rights -- so what do you accomplish by destroying them before he can??? Bush did Bin Laden's work in Iraq for him and now you want him to do Bin Laden's work for him here at home too??

[searingtruth]

"...It is not our inaction that emboldens our enemies, it is our depth of fear."
sshard

Indeed fellow patriot.
ST


"A tyrants only ally is fear."
SearingTruth

A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

[sshard]

notblue

It is not our inaction that emboldens our enemies, it is our depth of fear.

[canyoutellme-2009]

The enemy has been emboldened by our lack of action and the fact that America doesn't have the will to fight.
Posted by notblue at 05:43 PM : Mar 27, 2007

That's ridiculous. You just stated outright that our troops suck. Again, it's you republicans who hate the troops. The troops are FIGHTING and fighting VALIANTLY in this illegal war that your leader George Bush started (Bush declared war, not Iraq). Americans have the will to fight, but not to the point of shunning the rest of the world. The WORLD MATTERS. So answer the rest of my comments to you NotBlue. WHY do you support this war when it's creating MORE terrorists than were EVER there before???

[CBSTV]

It was a dark day in America when Democrats assumed control of Congress. Now they are shining light upon the Patriot Act. What's the purpose of having a secret government if people are allowed to stick their noses into it? Those unpatriotic, treasonous agitators!

Only a year ago, Republicans controlled all three branches of government. We didn't have to put up with such scrutiny and dissent back then.

[notblue]

The enemy has been emboldened by our lack of action and the fact that America doesn't have the will to fight.

[gunownerdan]

notblue,
Do you know what allows freedom to exist in America? Freedom can be traced back to our CONSTITUTITION(especially our Bill Of Rights).
Terrorists prefer unarmed victims so in order to fight terrorists we have our SECOND AMENDMENT.
The true enemies of liberty will try their hardest to destroy our second amendment and the rest of our Bill Of Rights. That includes Islamic fascists AND a corrupt government.
Enough said!

[tacitus27]

"The statute did not cause the errors. The FBI's implementation did."
FBI Director Robert Mueller

Was something left unsaid?

"...because if we had implemented it correctly, we would have all of you nay-sayers and anti-Bush enemy combatants locked up in our new Super-Max, Super-Secret prison were we could torture you until you croaked. You certainly wouldn't be talking about this in public and embarrassing Herr Bush. By the way Mr. Reporter - were are your papers?"

Did Nixon and Hoover rise from the dead when I wasn't paying attention.

[searingtruth]

Mirror

My friends, sometimes the most difficult thing about fighting evil is realizing that it actually exists, and then unambiguously and forcefully calling it what it is.

History shows time and time again that one of evils greatest strengths is its ability to disguise itself as good, or at least a temporary necessity, until that last fatal moment when its revelation becomes clear, indisputable, and inescapable.

So today let us take a clear and unadulterated look into the mirror at ourselves.

Just six years ago we were one of the most respected and admired defenders of democracy and human rights in history. Respected not only by our friends, but even begrudgingly by most of our enemies. In fact, even the fantastic power of our military paled in comparison to the overwhelming might of our moral authority.

Today we are a nation that operates secret prisons occupied by anonymous inmates, illegally abducted and held indefinitely without charge or representation. We are guilty of torture. We are guilty of murder. We are guilty of preemptive war of conquest. We are guilty of the wholesale surveillance of our population, suppressing all hope of privacy and free dissent. And we are guilty of disgracing our nation through the abandonment of even our most basic precepts of morality.

If this is not evil, then nothing we have ever fought against is evil, and nothing we have ever fought for is good.


Excerpt from A Future of the Brave
A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

[canyoutellme-2009]

notblue,

Uhm.. your precious leader, George Bush has already seen to it that our freedoms have been taken. BTW, the threat of Radical Islam has been real since the beginning of time. It is not going away now and in FACT is actually INCREASING. Tell me notblue, is Radical Islam GROWING or SHRINKING? if you say SHRINKING then it is YOUR head which is in the sand. It's growing and growing leaps and bounds world wide and SPECIFICALLY because of the actions of your leader, George Bush and his cronies.

So tell me, are we WINNING this war on terror? Are we (democrats) emboldening the enemy? Or is it perhaps your leader's War-without-reason-in-Iraq doing that? Certainly seems that the enemy is becoming more and more emboldened and has been for the past several years. WHY are you so BLIND as to see that?

[notblue]

gunownerdan, recent history shows the threat of radical Islam is real and now, it's time to pull your head out of the sand before it's too late. It hard to understand your point of view after all the attacks perpetrated by the militants over the last three decades. Believeing radical Islam is not a true threat could lead to the destruction of our freedoms. The militants cherish your point of view and are banking on it if victory is going to be theirs.

[searingtruth]

"Those who would wish to eliminate the very tools used in defending freedom, the very freedom an enemy like radical Islam are trying to destroy, all in the name of politics or ideology doesn't deserve the protection that those tools provide."
notblue

Indeed. The Republicans should never have disposed of the one tool that had defended our freedom for 225 years, The Constitution of the United States of America.
ST


"Republicans threw out the one tool we had that has naturally defeated our foes for over 225 years - The Constitution of the United States of America.
We need to restore it, despite all their objections."
SearingTruth

"Some believe that freedom makes our country less secure."
SearingTruth


A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

[gunownerdan]

Notblue,
history proves that you have MUCH more to fear from an out-of-control government than you do from some group of extremist religious nuts.
No terrorist on earth can ever destroy America and our freedoms, but the GOVERNMENT SURE CAN!

[notblue]

Those who would wish to eliminate the very tools used in defending freedom, the very freedom an enemy like radical Islam are trying to destroy, all in the name of politics or ideology doesn't deserve the protection that those tools provide.

[searingtruth]

"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

Indeed fellow patriot. Awesome post.
ST


"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others."
James Madison, Federalist No. 58, 1788

"The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men."
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 21, 1787

A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

[gunownerdan]

%u201CIt 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.%u201D
-- Thomas Paine

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be
-- James Madison

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
-%u2013 James Madison

"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."
-- President John F. Kennedy, January 29, 1961