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Headings: How to Win the War on Terror: Repeal the Patriot Act
How to Win the War on Terror: Repeal the Patriot Act
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Content: We were told the reason 9/11 happened is because terrorists hate our freedom. But if the main assailant on our constitutional rights today is the government itself, then that makes anyone in Congress who still supports the Patriot Act a terrorist attacking our freedom. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) defended these intrusions on our rights, saying, “It’s called protecting America.” It’s worth noting that Feinstein received almost $200,000 from Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, BAE Systems and drone manufacturer General Atomics in the 2012 election cycle. Ardent Patriot Act supporters like Feinstein aren’t protecting their constituents, but the profits and stock prices of their sugar daddies. Obama ran on a promise of discontinuing warrantless wiretapping in 2008. He’s since become embroiled in scandals of Nixonian proportions after the seizure of the AP’s phone calls and, most recently, our own. His presidency marked the rise of the oppressive surveillance state that was too busy monitoring peaceful protesters to catch the Boston bombers, even after Russia warned us twice over that bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was in the US and was capable of planning a terrorist attack. While the Obama administration’s NSA missed out on the Tsarnaevs, they’ve almost completed their new, state-of-the-art data center in the mountains of Utah, where every phone call and every piece of online communication from every citizen is stored. This troubling new surveillance culture isn’t for terrorists, it’s for us.