Never posted here before, only place to find good edits. Saw
this thread felt compelled to comment. A lot of individuals fail to do any actual
research on legislation that will directly affect their lives. Taking the
second hand opinion of a random individual is never a good idea in my opinion.
The purpose of my post was simply to assuage the hectic manner in which
individuals were jumping to the conclusion that the bill of rights had
evaporated.
This bill is in fact not what it is quoted to be. There are
no provisions within it to start targeted strikes within the US to kill or
arrest US citizens. There is no retraction of the posse comitatus act of 1878 which still maintains that it is illegal
for the US military to operate on US soil or against US citizens in a law
enforcement measure. There is no mention of a change in US policy when dealing
with individuals suspected of terrorist intentions. There is nothing in this
bill that in any way changes the status quo except to state that it provides
measures to change existing anti –terrorism policy no less than 60 days after
ratification. Does this mean that different measures may be passed after this
bill is ratified? Sure, after 60 days new bills may be implemented to define
that change. However, this bill does nothing of the sort, which is quite
contrary to what the headlines state. However, what this bill does state, is
that regardless of those changes protections remain in place for US citizens,
Legalized citizens, and Foreign nationals.
Woozy I think you took my comments out of context as I was
in no way attempting to convince you to desert your paranoia. There are certainly measures that exist or will exist that will
attempt to affect the freedoms US citizens enjoy. However, this bill is not one
of them.
