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| Jena Baker McNeill The reason the Heritage Foundation has been exposed. |
Our Founding Fathers would never approve of naked body scanners or warrant-less wire tapping and searches. They fought a revolution over King George's own tyranny, yet, McNeill continues to look away from the Founders to support this big intrusive government that continues to threaten your Constitutional rights.
Yesterday, the Heritage Foundation published McNeill's latest attack against your civil liberties ensured by the Bill of Rights. She writes:
Currently, two of the PATRIOT Act’s key provisions are up for reauthorization by Congress. As the deadline draws nearer, it is important to re-engage on the importance of the PATRIOT Act and explain how the law helps authorities to track down terror leads and dismantle plots before the public is in any danger.
Given the vast amount of misinformation about the act, it is equally important to lay out the constitutional basis for the PATRIOT Act as well as how it works to ensure that its powers are not abused.
Actually Ms. McNeill, it's three provisions that are up for reauthorization. The three provisions include the warrant-less wire taps, which Obama is pushing for and hoping to increase the power of the federal government including tracking all Americans with the cell phones through GPS without warrants. Obama argues that using a cell phone gives up an element of privacy and the federal government should be immune from law suits filed by citizens over wire tapping.
It also included the government's right to seize business records using a court specially set up by the Patriot Act to bypass the Fourth Amendment, which means the federal government had to give no explanation why they were seizing these records, and the lone wolf scenario which gave the government the ability to track anyone they felt might be a terrorist, which I am sure you can see how easily that provision could be abused.
Here's five points McNeill tries to make in her defense of the Patriot Act:
* It protects civil liberties and provides for the common defense.
* Expectation of privacy is not unlimited.
* The law provides significant safeguards.
* It has passed constitutional muster.
Disagreements over the role of government are different from actual abuse.
Seriously, Ms. McNeill? It doesn't protect civil liberties and the truth is it can be easily abused, especially with the Department of Homeland Security and states like Missouri that wrote the MIAC report expanding the definition of terrorism to include common political activities like standing out in front of an abortion clinic protesting.
She argues along with Obama that expectation of privacy is something the federal government should determine. Remember as I type this Obama argues that Americans should be tracked through their cell phones. What founding father would approve of King George doing this as the bootlegged Rum Ms. McNeill?
The law has passes significant safeguards? Without bias I ask?
It has passed constitutional muster? Seriously? I don't see how it even passes the Fourth Amendment.
Disagreements over the role of government are different from acutal abuse? Don't these go hand in hand? Perhaps if we were to refer to the founding documents that back up the limits of government there would be far less abuse Ms. McNeill.
Jena Baker McNeill continues to destroy my impression of the Heritage Foundation. Her rants for big intrusive government whether it be support for naked body scanners or the Patriot Act simply do not comply with the vision of the Founding Fathers. Don't take my word for it. Listen to what Senator Rand Paul has to say about the Patriot Act and the abuses that have taken place since Republicans passed it on a pathos vote in 2001.
Pay attention Ms. McNeill and learn from someone who understands the Founder's vision of limited federal government.
Thank goodness other Republicans are starting to see the truth about the Patriot Act too, like Tom McClintock of California.
"A year ago, I made a terrible mistake and voted to extend those provisions of the Patriot Act," he said. "But the more that I learned, the more that I researched, it became crystal clear to me this that this is not only an affront to our bill of rights, but it's a fundamental challenge to our freedom."
It's unfortunate the Heritage Foundation doesn't get all this Department of Homeland Security is killing the Bill of Rights.
