Originally published October 2 2003
Patriot Act is actually rather un-American
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A growing number of U.S. leaders and citizens are speaking out against the Patriot Act: an overreaching law that, by academic definition, takes America one step closer to a Police State.
Interestingly, the very people speaking out against the Patriot Act are being labeled anti-patriotic in true McCarthy fashion. Both Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon -- two Hollywood notables who spoke out against the War with Iraq and its associated terrorist inuendo -- have paid the price in terms of cancelled public appearances and verbal floggings by critics.
Of course, to most Americans, the Patriot Act is no threat to anybody other than "the terrorists." It's all those other people who are being held in prison, without being charged, without legal counsel, and with no hope for freedom, who should be worried. Oppression never counts until it's your turn. And by then, of course, it's too late.
Both Mr. Ashcroft and Palmer found that the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, got in their way more than it protected anything. It has gotten in Ashcroft's way in his pursuit of terrorists after Sept. 11, especially those who dress differently and practice a different religion. Ashcroft's vehicle is the USA Patriot Act, which Congress, abdicating its own duties of vigilance, passed with a whoop and a holler in the days after Sept. 11. It implies that the purpose of the act is to promote patriotism and that those not cooperating with it are somehow less patriotic. The government is already holding hundreds of people in jail incommunicado, some of them American citizens, without benefit of legal counsel.
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