Der Patriot Act ist ein 2001 verabschiedetes US-Gesetz, das die Überwachungs- und Ermittlungsbefugnisse von Strafverfolgungs- und Geheimdiensten zur Terrorismusbekämpfung erweitert. Zu seinen Hauptzwecken gehören die Verbesserung des Informationsaustauschs zwischen Behörden, der Zugang der Strafverfolgungsbehörden zu einer breiteren Palette von Instrumenten (wie Abhörmaßnahmen und der Verfolgung digitaler Kommunikation) sowie die Erhöhung der Strafen für terroristische Handlungen. Kritiker behaupten, das Gesetz habe die bürgerlichen Freiheiten und das Recht auf Privatsphäre ausgehöhlt, während Befürworter behaupten, es sei entscheidend für die Verhinderung terroristischer Anschläge gewesen.
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) war der einzige Senator, der dagegen stimmte
David Vitter (R-LA) hat nicht gewählt
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Thank you for spelling „Yea“ correctly.
Russ Fiengold later lost his seat to Ron Johnson. Ron Jon is a far right conspiracy theory peddling loon.
The beginning of the end.
Remember, it’s just a temporary stop gap.
Yea, Nevada. 😁
Tyranny of the majority
This happened when I was 17. Even then I remember thinking that it sets very dangerous president.
Now that I’m 41 and have been designated a terrorist by my president (I am against fascism) it appears that my fears of it being turned on fellow Americans has come true.
This is such a shameful legacy. 9/11 happened when I was in fifth grade, and the whole world seemed to go insane after that. In our Constitution unit in middle school, someone finally brought up the fourth amendment and asked about the Patriot Act in relation to it. Our social studies teacher–who was a very good teacher–attempted to remain unbiased, but every justification he mentioned that was used to pass the act sounded flimsier and flimsier. He absolutely could not argue against it being a Fourth Amendment violation and in opposition to Benjamin Franklin’s quote, „Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.“
(Though yes, I know, that quote was actually in relation to taxes and the Penns–the eponymous Pennsylvania family–not paying their fair share. But still. We were in middle school.)
Our teacher had no good answer for why our parents would support such a thing, given what the Constitution says.
Edit: a word; phrasing
Fuck yeah, Wisconsin.
Frightened cowards
Feingold is a patriot. The only patriot.
Landrieu, not Vitter, was the NV, right?
Herb Kohl how could you
I would say it was all downhill from there, but we’ve been going downhill for a looooong time now…
This is when the governmental domestic terrorists won…
Generational Wisconsin W. Every politician who voted yes, who is still in office, should have to explain why they sold their constituents out in the name of „safety and security.“ I remember Gov agents coming into a library I was working at to „review material“ or whatever their excuse was.
But the two parties are soooooo different lol
David Vitter wasn’t a senator in 2001. He was in the House, and I assume he voted for it.
Mary Landrieu, a Democrat, was the senator at the time.
Let us never forget how both parties failed us.
The day the terrorists won.
10000% needed to be driven by fear..
Cowritten I believe by a Wisconsin rep Jim Sensenbrenner. I lived near him and begged my friends to protest at his house but they thought it was weird.
Russ Feingold was the best American Senator for a century. Period.
This wasn’t even the worst decision in the post-9/11 hysteria, but it’s up there.
So which plots has it helped to foil? My understanding was that it has not subverted a single terrorist plot yet.