Friday, December 16, 2005
Senate Rejects Extending PATRIOT Provisions
Score one for the American People and their Privacy! The Senate has shot down an extension of certain controversial provisions in the US PATRIOT Act, itself a controversial bit of legislation. If this sticks, then the FBI will lose a whole mess of its power to snoop on regular American citizens, which is a severe violation of privacy, terrorists or not. Merry Christmas, America, from the United States Senate, and from all of us who think the PATRIOT Act is nothing more than a cheap, superficial power grab! (Link -- via BoingBoing)
Update: As part of my commitment to the Community Article Portal, I have a side-story up over there about the odd trend of harmful legislation being titled with acronyms. (Link)
Update: As part of my commitment to the Community Article Portal, I have a side-story up over there about the odd trend of harmful legislation being titled with acronyms. (Link)
