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    House Amends Patriot Act to Require Warrants for Library/Book Store Searches

    Rep. Bernie Sanders, the next Senator from Vermont, introduced an Amendment to the Patriot Act amending section 215 to require a warrant for library and book store searches. The amendment died last year in the House 210-210 after last-minute pressure from DeLay et al. Now, it passed 238-187 with the support of 40 Republicans. IMO, it's almost certain to pass the Senate (which is generally less extremist than the House). The most onerous attacks on our civil liberties in the Patriot Act are still by no means defeated, but this here's the first Congressional victory against them.

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    Bush will veto. Or at least he's said he would. Let's see if he blinks!
    Tutto nel mondo è burla

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Boris Godunov
      Bush will veto. Or at least he's said he would. Let's see if he blinks!
      That's good. That means all of the expired parts stay expired.
      Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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        But then he'd have to veto the entire Patriot Act. That'd be the ultimate own goal.
        "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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        • #5
          So not all of our freedoms have been squashed under the Republican boot yet.



          whew
          A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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          • #6
            No, this freedom used to be squashed. Now it's unsquashed.
            "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
            -Bokonon

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            • #7
              well, ok -- still cause for relief
              A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Ramo
                But then he'd have to veto the entire Patriot Act. That'd be the ultimate own goal.

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                • #9
                  an Amendment to the Patriot Act amending section 215 to require a warrant for library and book store searches. The amendment died last year in the House 210-210 after last-minute pressure from DeLay et al. Now, it passed 238-187 with the support of 40 Republicans.




                  One small step against the PATRIOT Act, one giant step against governmental tyranny.
                  “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                  - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                  • #10
                    That's good news for all those lefty bookstores, whom I'm sure destroyed all their old records and stopped keeping new ones.
                    Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                    • #11
                      "Love your Country...Fear your Government"
                      "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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