Speaking to reporters today at the White House, President Obama demanded that Congress renew Section 215 of the Patriot Act before the expiration on Monday.
“This needs to get done,” Obama declared, praising the House for its approval of the USA Freedom Act, a watered-down reform bill, and saying the Senate needs to approve it as well.
Section 215 is being used as the pretext for NSA surveillance of the American public, and Obama insisted that allowing that surveillance to lapse would endanger the public.
The White House is reiterating that there is “no plan B” to keep the surveillance going if Congress doesn’t give them the bill they want, though they similarly made this claim last week and the Senate still failed to pass the bill.
The Senate needed 60 votes of pass the USA Freedom Act and got 57 Saturday, then went into holiday recess. They are planning a Sunday session this upcoming weekend to try to vote again at the last minute, but despite heavy lobbying from the administration and pro-surveillance Congressional leadership, it is unclear how they will secure additional votes.
Dutifully playing the role of cheerleader for evil.
President Obama 'demanded'…
Slight correction: Oboomer's Puppet-masters behind the NWO have (demanded)
their minions in Congress renew Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act.
You know what strikes me as more relevant? The fact that our dear Senators (and House members also) felt that taking another vacation was more important than supposedly taking care to not "…endanger the public." To me, that says a lot – about the Congress's supposed duty to the American people – and that perhaps they really aren't too worried about the country's safety because they know that's not the reason for the collection of all American citizen's data. Seems weird even for these cretins to be so laid back about their responsibilities under the Constitution. Makes one wonder whether Dubya was/is alone in his opinion about our Constitution.
The only way to EFFECTIVELY protest NON-violently is to publicly, loudly, and continually; ''call-out', expose, and educate Americans that the US is acting like an EMPIRE abroad and TYRANNY at home.
Signs and protesting needs to be focused on 'shouting-out':
"Stop the EMPIRE"
"OCCUPY THE EMPIRE"
END ELITIST EMPIRE
END TYRANNY!
Terminate TYRANNY
Liberty, democracy, equality, justice
Over
Violent/Vichy
Empire
More proof that Obama is right of center. Hillary would be further to the right. They are chasing the Republicans who are off into crazy right. This makes sense in terms of capturing the center, but it leaves us far off to the right. We get things like the Patriot Act pushed by Democrats. Sick. Near hopeless.
The Patriot Act was passed shortly after 9/11 right after Tom Dasche (the Senate Majority leader) and Patrick Leahy (the chairman of the Judicial committee) got Antraxx letters in the mail. They more than anyone were in a position to say not so fast Charlie, lets read this thing. They got Anthrax letters and the Patriot Act sailed straight through. The Patriot Act was as thick as a phone book. 9/11 was only weeks before. When exactly did they have time to write this piece of legislation between 9/11 and when it was passed, ….or was it written before 9/11, long before 9/11, just awaiting the right "event" to push it through. The Neocons were long advocationg an attack on Iraq before 9/11, and 9/11 allowed them to do just that. How convenient for them that this event just happened to come along to allow them to do exactly what they had been long advocating.
In 2008, we were told, a US Army research scientist, Bruce Ivans…….Oh shucks!, he killed himself before the FBI could arrest that dastardly culprit….he was the Anthrax mailer, you see. It was he who mailed the letters to Daschle and Leahy, you see. Not only that he acted alone, really, no one else was involved, just him. Of course he's dead, so he cannot defend himself. See how this works.
How anybody cannot see right through this is beyond me? I mean really, how obvious and in your face does it have to be?
It "needs to get done" although it has not yet even stopped ONE incident from happening, even (and esp.?) those aided and abetted by the FBI. Nor did it do anything to prevent the ones that happened regardless. More like it "needs to get done" because the government needs a justification for why/how it spent billions on supercomputer hubs to "collect it all."
you don't know that. not for a fact. there coulda been hundreds, perhaps thousands, of terrorist
attacks nipped in the bud. bad people arrested before they could act, before they could even
think of acting. if there's a 1% chance of preventing a possible terrorist attack, surely that's
reason to surrender your rights to a government that knows best.
The whole patriot act(how misnamed can anything get)should be "expired", not just section 215.