Comments on: FBI Director Defends Patriot Act

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

Hitler defended his Enabling Act also......

[dogband]

Reminds me of the old bumper sticker, I Love My Country, but FEAR my government.

I hope our governing bodies keep each other in check, as was designed in our constitution.....but I see the checks and balances eroding away in the fear and hysteria of 9-11, most cultivated by W and the folks who are pulling his strings.

[gunownerdan]

President John F. Kennedy said it best.....

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

[dallison7]

Oh, please!! We'll be good!! We won't lie and steal anymore!! Cmon' pleeease!! Don't you trust us???

[MIpapaof4]

Over the week end, in Oregon, there were ignorant people hanging our service men in effigy. They were also burning our American flag. Something has to change in this country. We can not continue down this path. It is not only the Republican allowing this to happen. We live in the greatest country in the world. Why are we showing every body our worst parts? Come on people wake up and start the change that is necessary.

[skyk-2009]

I just wish we could somehow sweep the entire government clean of George W. Bush and his entire Administration. The entire lot of them, all their "law's", signing statements all of it. Go back to square one and start over. Failure is going to be there until we do so. You can't patch a failure and make it a success in any form anywhere.

[inventagod]

Whoever authored the Patriot Act was a died-in-the-wool fascist.
Whoever voted to approve it had the wool firmly pulled over their eyes.
The FBI 'can' use those 'powers' appropriately, but did not.
Those 'powers' completely strip our Constitution of the beliefs we once held dear as a democracy.

[gunownerdan]

Trusting a government agency with your freedom is like trusting a child rapist to babysit your kids!

[scott4261]

The USA PATRIOT Act compromises the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution...and those are just compromises to the Bill of Rights! If you go further into the Constitution, you'll find violations in Article II (particularly Section 2). If combed through, I would bet that several other parts of the Constitution have been violated. This is a serious matter. The USA PATRIOT Act should be repealed.

"Those who would give up essential liberties for temporary saftey deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Very wise words from Benjamin Franklin. Words that we need to heed now, more than ever in our history.

[nativewoman]

Perhaps they "can" but we have already found that they don't.

[fascistusa]

The FBI, The CIA, and Secret Service (SS) are NOT the Good Guys.

The (UN) Patriot Act is right out of 1984 Orwell.

It should be called the Big Brother Act.

WE ARE ALL SLAVES IN A FASCIST COUNTRY.

[bigsk8fan]

Even if you were still a fan of the Patriot Act as a way to combat terrorism, why on earth would anyone still trust the Bush White House to do this legitimately and without fear of political reprisal. I think after their political reprisal attacks against their OWN US attorneys, after Abu Ghrabe, previous misuse of the Patriot Act, continuing to sign Acts of Congress with Presidential provisos, continuing an illegal war, starting an illegal war against a country that did not attack us, attacking a country that did NOT aid Al Qaeda, . . . well you get the idea. W can not be trusted with this kind of power anymore.