Kasz216 said:
PS3beats360 said:
A political party is just like a dedicated sports team. People will blindly support their team and stay loyal to them regardless of their performance. If anyone says a bad thing about their team they will defend them and attack anyone who criticises their team.
I personally do not care for politics or sports. It makes no difference which side is in government or which team wins the championship. It makes no difference at all in my life. So why bother if political side blue, green or red or whatever is in government? I do not vote and I have no time to listen to white haired middle aged men argue over pathetic issues.
One person will claim they are right and argue the other person is wrong. What if both sides are wrong? Politicians pretend to be experts in most fields and are know it alls. They read prepared speeches on issues they know little or nothing and appear to be enlightened.
BTW: What is the Patriot Act? Being from outside of the USA, I have never heard of it.
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A large anti-terrorism bill that provides for a bunch of stuff like money set aside specifically for anti-terrorist acts. The parts people are mad about are the survelince parts.
For example, it's a lot easier to get wiretaps on non-citizens, they can now get warrantless "taps" on peoples internet, the ability to excute a search warrant before you serve it to the person, makes it so that a wiretap can be put on any phone a suspect could be using rather then needing a specific wiretap for each phone.... all kinds of other stuff.
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Anti-terror laws sound really bad. The same sort of laws are used under a police state under a dictatorship. People can be arrested for no reason and kept in detention without legal representation.
The State police can arrest a person suspected of being a terrorist/enemy of the state and torture/interrogate them for information.
Government wiretaps were used by Richard Nixon did during his infamous reign as US President. With the Patriot Act the US government can legally wiretap and plant bugs to track people.
