Patriot Act Powers Overwhelmingly Used For Dea Drug Investigations

[t-pain]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/29/surprise-controversial-patriot-act-power-now-overwhelmingly-used-in-drug-investigations/

 

The DEA maybe just sneaking and peeking into your house without a warrant looking for drugs and putting you on a list.

 

It makes sense, if you go back and look at last year when it was revealed that all of that american internet spying was ... again being used mainly by the DEA to arrest people with drugs.

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805

 

The war on terrorism? Obviously full of crap! Its more of the racist war on drugs!

[+Malamute]

Yeap. 

 

 Home of the Brave my arse.  Terror/fear sent this country into peeing its collective pants. Heh.

 

Anyhow,... remember the votes.

 

 Only One senator voted against it in 2001; Russ Feingold.  Thanks Russ.

 

House vote was 357-66 with 62 democratic no votes(see link), 3 Republican No votes(Paul, Ney,Otter) and one independent socialist(Sanders).

 

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll398.xml

 

 

 Um..., yeap.  It was one of the worst days for a civil libertarian. 

[cristinew]

I remember the votes.

[t-pain]

is that why they put the library books thing in the patriot act?

so the DEA could see if you loaned out a book on how to grow marijuana?

 

dont think the library has books on how to be a terrorist.

unless you count stories about the boston tea party (dressing up as another group of people to commit the crime of property destruction?) or the declaration of independence as terrorist documentation haha.

Edited October 31, 2014 by t-pain

[solabeirtan]

As if they ever needed any more power(s). Remeber this one:   

 

"U.S. Navy SEAL Smuggled 10 Kilos Of Cocaine Into Miami"    (May 2014)

 

... begs the question: How many times did they do this and wifee didn't leave the Bag with the coke in the overhead compartment?

 

 

[solabeirtan]

Can you come out and play? with me?  I'm with the DEA!  We Like to Party! All day!  Free Drugs!  bring a friend... 

 

DEA get there scrupples from the "Drug dealers" they are morally superior too ? Or are they in their own special league.   Anything's legal as long as you dont get caught.  Even if they do it's okay, cause they're the Govt anyways. They have the benefit of the 'Lethal Powers Act'.

 

DEA Fornicates with the Facebookity... Pierce, Sondra this months plaything... 

[Letterhead954]

http://politicaloutcast.com/2014/11/patriot-act-used-war-drugs-terrorism/ 

 

Patriot Act Used for War on Drugs More than Terrorism

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Mark Horne — 12 Comments

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The Patriot Act was passed for an emergency but it is being used for other things.

I posted recently about how the Department of Homeland Security was used in what might be described as a panty raid. Local trademark infringements are how we use the agency that was created in the wake of 911 because of terrorism.

But that is just one anecdote. Now Mother Jones magazine (yes, I know: quite Leftist) ran the headline, “PATRIOT Act Warrants Used More for Drugs than for Terrorism.”

The PATRIOT Act gave federal agents expanded powers to issue search warrants without informing the targets of the warrant beforehand. Why? Because terrorism investigations were special: they’d fall apart if terrorists received warning that they were being investigated. So with terrorism suddenly a far bigger priority after 9/11, national security required that authority for these “sneak-and-peek” warrants be broadened.

A few days ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation tallied up the known figures for sneak-and-peek warrants:

·         2001-03: 47

·         2010: 3,970

·         2011: 6,775

·         2012: 10,183

·         2013: 11,129

That’s quite an increase. So did terrorism investigations skyrocket over the past decade? Not so much. It turns out that hardly any of these warrants were used in terrorism cases. Instead, they were virtually all used in narcotics cases…

So, just like creation of DHS, the Patriot Act was sold to Congress as a response to terrorism. Anytime their budget is threatened, the powers at DHS respond by threatening us with nightmares of a terrorist attack. But that is not what they are doing. It is not even most of what they are doing.

In both cases it is clear that the Federal government has treated the American people to a treasonous bait and switch. Rahm Emanuel said it, but it is the playbook of all politicians—never let a crisis go to waste. September 11, 2001, was Government Empowerment Day. It was Christmas in September for the Federal Government. The burning towers were bright Christmas Trees and the blood and rubble of their collapse amounted to a pile of Christmas presents: the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, the invasion of Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq, etc.

We gave the government new powers to meet what we were told were real and pressing needs. But they aren’t being used for that purpose. Just like the war material generated for our foreign occupations is now being shipped to small towns all over the U.S. to occupy us, so the Patriot Act is being used to enhance non-terrorist police work that was never presented as the reason for the new law.

Historians will see the so-called “War on Terror” for what it really is, a government revolution. Why do you think they named the law “the Patriot Act”?

 

Mother Jones quotes Radley Balko:

When critics point out the ways a new law might be abused, supporters of the law often accuse those critics of being cynical — they say we should have more faith in the judgment and propriety of public officials. Always assume that when a law grants new powers to the government, that law will be interpreted in the vaguest, most expansive, most pro-government manner imaginable. If that doesn’t happen, good. But why take the risk? Why leave open the possibility? Better to write laws narrowly, restrictively and with explicit safeguards against abuse.

Balko is being far too kind. Anyone saying that “we should have more faith in the judgment and propriety of public officials,” is an ambitious liar, a commissioned snake oil salesman for the Federal Government.

This is true.