Kafka, Orwell and the Patriot Act
When certain men and/or women wearing modestly priced suits and shiny shoes quote the Patriot Act to you and ask you questions you might be tempted to not answer. But take my advice, if you value your time, you'll answer, because as they will explain to you that under the Patriot Act most of your rights as a private citizen are diminished or no longer there.. Under such interrogation, what is happening to you may seem strangely familiar, because if you have read any Orwell or Kafka or Lee Child the proceedings come out of the nightmare that exists when rationality no longer is a part of interrogation but interpretation and you are subjected to what the authors only imagined and you are living through. And, you may well ask yourself, "Hold on, whatever happened to America? How could an American congress pass a law so anti- Constitutional and actually put it into practice?" Has fear caused us to give up our freedom? Are we no longer the home of the Brave, but the land of the Fraidy-Cats? So now, when I see up on the screen the portrayal of true American heroes, should I question their realyty, or should I espouse my credibility to comic book super heroes?. It ooks as if superheroes, those larger than life characters in spandex and capes are the delusional answers, hens Donald Trump the closest thing to a superhero is President sans the spandex.
Mamn, I love The Gulch. Anywhere else and I'd likely be laughed off onto Facebook. Just think, for about 50 of my 83 years I believed all the things I learned about the founders, and the history and I was with Reagan 100% and his shining city on the hill, but it's shut down by a bunch of "Patriots."
Mamn, I love The Gulch. Anywhere else and I'd likely be laughed off onto Facebook. Just think, for about 50 of my 83 years I believed all the things I learned about the founders, and the history and I was with Reagan 100% and his shining city on the hill, but it's shut down by a bunch of "Patriots."
Previous comments... You are currently on page 3.
The Patriot Act provisions are directly from Orwell or Kafka indeed. At the time it was passed, I feel the Act was worse than AR makes the Sherman Act out to be - which is also not very good, to say the least. The Patriot Act signaled the end of American ideals more than the falling of the twin towers, in my opinion. And for everyone reading, I do not take that statement lightly.
From information sharing between previously distinct agencies, to roving wiretaps, to record access, to foreign wiretaps, to sneak and peak, these are all a slaps in the faces of due process and sovereignty, whether individual or national. This bill is actually how the terrorists of 911 really inflicted their damage, with our government's consent. From the Patriot Act forward, I could not trust either major party.