Do you support the Patriot Act? Do you support the Patriot Act? Is it necessary or un constitutional?

Do you support the Patriot Act? Is it necessary or un constitutional?

Sorry, Kinda messed up the title.

It is completely unconstitutional. All the sheeples that think its a good thing will awaken one day soon and wonder where all our freedoms have gone.

The Patriot Act is necessary because it is a mode of curtailing terrorism.

Yes. It is so minor that it barely deserves concern. It is strange how the left whines about intercepting phone calls from terrorists and may nominate someone who illegally collect thousands of sensitive FBI files on political enemies. One is totally necessary and justifiable and the other is a gross violation of peoples privacy.

Unnecessary. 911 happened, and Bush's little mistake about those WMDs happened because the Bush administration was incompetent to use the intelligence resources they already had.

He then used his failure to use his power competently as an argument for his being granted still more power.

That makes him a decent con artist. Too bad that's the only thing he knows how to do.

UNCONSTITUTIONAL

f**k the patriot act lol

UNCONSTITUTIONAL ALONG WITH MANY OTHER BOGUS LAWS THE NEOCONS HAVE EVER CAME UP WITH.

No. No. No and the Supreme Court seems to think so.

Needed and constitutional if you still want a constitution or country to exist in! Not rocket science!

It is unconstitutional and unnecessary. Personally I don't care if the government listens to all my calls or reads all my emails but I recognize that I do not have the right to make that decision for others.

Within the first ten minutes of the new Congress, it should be REPEALED.

i think that benjamin franklin's quotaion sums this issue up best; "those of us who would trade freedom for security deserve neither, and will lose both."

they called it the PATRIOT ACT to coerce congress into passing it. it was written long before 9/11 and hastily passed without thought of the long term implications of a bill that suspends habious corpus. in reality, it is not a patriotic bill. the acronym stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. so the basis behind the bill has nothing to do with protecting basic freedoms that were delegated to us in the "BILL OF RIGHTS"...by people much more intelligent than those in the current administration.

providing appropriate tools... what? like making it o.k. for the government to lock you up indefinitely without trial or contact to anybody you know because you spoke in a way that was "questionable"? that is crap. if we don't have freedoms, all we are protecting is the wealthy elite ruling class and their cache of capital.

ultimately i think that the usapatriot act is totally unconstitutional and unnecessary. there are threats to our way of life and our freedoms, however they come not only from external sources, but also from within.

take a look at the fall of all of the great societies throughout history... the cause for their collapse has always been, at the root, internal struggle for power, which made them vulnerable to outside pressure. the usapatriot act is a huge step in the grab for power in this country as we widen the gap between the dominant and the subservient...

LOL @ the give up all rights comment.

It is definitely unconstitutional. I do not support the patriot act, and guess what? That makes me more of a patriot.

I don't support it...I believe it is unconstitutional

Absolutely ridiculous. Aren't we guaranteed a right to privacy and the freedom of speech?

No, no, unconstitutional.

When enacted and the cloak of terrorism and it's support after 911 it was justified.
Today it is being invoked to support a wrong against having no rights at all underact.

Unconstitutional!!

I don't know what the Patriot Act is...