Patriot Act, a Nazi law: Ex-CIA official

[ensho]

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/159376.html


The United States Patriot Act is similar to the legislations carried out by the Nazi Germany in the World War II era, a former CIA officer says.



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“Governments have been willing to use fear, such as fear of terrorism, and fear of the enemy, as a way to get the people lined up in support of government policies. Very often these policies are essentially bad for the people because they take away many of their rights,” the former CIA officer said.

He went on to say that the relationship between the American citizens and the US government has changed for the worse since the introduction of the Patriot Act, adding that Americans had not become any safer by their rights being stripped away.

The US Patriot Act and desecration of the constitution has brought a dictatorship surveillance society of phone tapping, hidden cameras and policy brutality in the United States, Giraldi said.

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In February 2010, the House of Representatives and the Senate approved the extension of the Bush-era bill and sent it to President Obama who thereby signed the legislation into law.

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our Empire rolls ever onward and downward

[DirkGently]

1. How could something called "The Patriot Act" be fascist? Oh, wait . . .

[hobbit709]

2. Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich of 2001 is what I've called it

[Codeine]

3. We're linking to the press arm of Tehran now?

Seriously?

[hobbit709]

4. Does the source alter the truth of the statement?

[Codeine]

5. Adds a bit of perspective. nt

[hobbit709]

7. I had that perspective the day it passed.

Maybe it had something to do with my mother who lived under Hitler for 7 years.

[L0oniX]

6. Hermann Goering said.....

Naturally the common people don’t want war . . . Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders . . . All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism. – Hermann Goering.

[howaboutme]

8. Congress lined up like little puppets

to approve the Patriot Acts in 2001 and 2006. Fear has historically been used to build up public support, and false flags have historically been used to generate fear and outcomes. Governments always want more power and it is up to the people to restrain it.

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/patriotact20012006senatevote.shtml

[ensho]

9. true

nt

[BlueMTexpat]

10. The minute *Co started the meme of "Homeland" and attached

"security" to it, accurate Nazi comparisons began. Calling something "Patriot" that was clearly meant to override constitutional rights and guarantees was definitely in line with the Goebbels approach.
The President alone cannot change this. He needs full backing from the Dems in Congress, which he apparently does not have. He can, however, reduce its most intrusive effects by having the implementing regs rewritten or quietly letting them go unenforced.