XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc   
   From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-26 03:39:24 +0000, pothead said:   
      
   > On 2025-12-26, Governor Swill  wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:16:43 -0800, Pluted Pup    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> As for the thread title, leftists have been promoting   
   >>> dragnet surveillance of cities in America and the UK and   
   >>> around the world by claiming the only thing wrong with it   
   >>> is because it might be used by immigration enforcement.   
   >>   
   >> Two words:  "Patriot Act"   
   >   
   > The Patriot Act took away more rights to freedom than anything in recent   
   times   
   > from my perspective.   
   > And like classic government manipulation of the masses, they picked the   
   perfect   
   > time to put it on the table. ie:9-11.   
   > There is some good in the act but there is also some overreach as well.   
   > In fact a LOT of overreach.   
   > And while it did expire in 2019 I believe, the government is still using some   
   > of the main provisions as if nothing changed.   
      
   Any politician who wants to let it expire entirely is going to be   
   called a "traitor" and "weak on defense" by Republicans in their   
   election rhetoric.   
      
   Like when they push through their big regressive tax cuts with an   
   expiration date, come election time you're "raising taxes" if you let   
   them expire as planned. Of course they never go into whose taxes are   
   being raised -- the average joe or the millionaires/corporations.   
      
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