Anti-Patriot Act Measure Drops From Bill ("sneak and peek" searches)

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- A House measure rolling back part of the USA Patriot Act won't make it through Congress this year, but the measure's GOP author says he'll try again next year.

The Justice Department, however, says it doesn't expect that Congress will ever pass Rep. C.L. "Butch" Otter's legislation banning "sneak and peek" searches.

Otter, an Idaho congressman, was successful in July at getting the House to approve a prohibition on the use of federal funds for such searches, which are executed without the property owner's or resident's knowledge and with warrants delivered afterward.

Senate and House leaders, though, refused to place that provision in the massive omnibus spending bill coming up before Congress next week, killing it for the year.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-congress-patriot-act,0,4980088.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[goobergunch]

1. Congress, meet rubber stamp.

:grr: :argh: :mad: :puke:

[UpInArms]

2. these jerks have never, obviously, read the

Constitution

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

[librechik]

3. Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure

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4. in their persons, houses, papers, and effects

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5. against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,

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6. and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath

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7. or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched,

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[librechik]

8. and the persons or things to be seized.

get ready to be seized

[benfranklin1776]

10. Thank you for that reminder.

:toast: It is one of the most important amendments that make this a free country, protecting people's most intimate areas and possession from unwarranted invasion by the government, yet it is the one that has suffered most grievously in the so called war on drugs, and now in the war on terrorism.

[proud patriot]

9. Patriots Support The Constitution

Traitors support bush

[benfranklin1776]

11. Yes the constitution did not cause 9/11.

None of these draconian privacy invading measures would have prevented 9/11. The problem was not lack of information it was failure to act on the available information in a timely and competent fashion. The solution to such incompetence is not to give the incompetent more power. The constitution contains within itself the tools for its own protection and the protection of the country.