How Would a Patriot Act?A Homeland Security apparatus has been constructed around the American people, infringing upon our Constitutional rights and endangering the very liberty that this nation was founded upon. The Patriot Act is but one example of a dangerous trend away from the Bill of Rights and towards a technocratic state, controlled not by the people, but by a distant Federal force.\n\n\"Within six months of passing the PATRIOT Act, the Justice Department was conducting seminars on how to stretch the new wiretapping provisions to extend them beyond terror cases,\" said Dan Dodson, a spokesman for the NationalAssociation of Criminal Defense Attorneys. \"They say they want the PATRIOT Act to fight terrorism. Then, within six months, they are teaching their people how to use it on ordinary citizens.\"\nhttp://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2003/09/14/StateLocal/Critics.Cite.Patriot.Act.Abuse.And.Misuse-465391.shtml\n\n\nControversial invocations of the USA PATRIOT Act\n\nOn March 9, 2007, a Justice Department audit found that the FBI had \"improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information\" about United States citizens.\n\nIn September 2003, the New York Times reported on a case of the USA PATRIOT Act being used to investigate alleged potential drug traffickers without probable cause. The article also mentions a study by Congress that referenced hundreds of cases where the USA PATRIOT Act was used to investigate non-terrorist alleged future crimes.\n\nIn November 2005, Business Week reported that the FBI had issued tens of thousands of \"National Security Letters\" and had obtained one million financial records from the customers of targeted Las Vegas businesses. Selected businesses included casinos, storage warehouses and car rental agencies. An anonymous Justice official claimed that such requests were permitted under section 505 of the USA PATRIOT Act.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act_controversy\n\n\nThe Federal government has gone beyond the Patriot Act with a wave of repressive measures.\n\nMilitary Commissions Act\n\nThe MCA eliminates the constitutional due process right of habeas corpus for detainees at Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere. It allows our government to continue to hold hundreds of prisoners for more than five years without charges.\n\nIt also gives any president the power to declare — onhis or her own — who is an enemy combatant, decide who should be held indefinitely without being charged with a crime and define what is — and what is not — torture and abuse. \nhttp://www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/commissions.html\n\nPresidential Decision Directive 51\n\nNew legislation signedon May 9, 2007, declares that in the event of a \"catastrophic event\", the President can take total control over the government and the country, bypassing all other levels of government at the state, federal, local, territorial and tribal levels, and thus ensuring total unprecedented dictatorial power.\nhttp://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/230507martiallaw.htmThe stated reasoning behind these acts is to protect the nation from terrorists, such as Osama bin Laden.\n\nBin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States embassies in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. \n\nhttp://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm\n\nNote that Bin Laden is not wanted for the 9/11 attacks. In fact, the event is not even mentioned on his most wanted page. Upon learning this, journalist Ed Haas contacted Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI. When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden\'sMost Wanted web page, Tomb said, \"The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden\'s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.\"\n\nhttp://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html\n\nTo learn more about the unconstitutional acts of the Federal government, pleasevisit http://www.wearechangeohio.com \n\nThe time has come for change. are, change, cincy, cody, day, deeds, demonstration, dietz, guantanimo, ohio, presidents, protest, torture, trial, we, wearechange