Why are they so adamant about The Patriot Act?

[Canuckistanian]

I'm racking my brain trying to figure out why they won't let go of even a single right-destroying part of it. Why? Because it's killing them off politically.

1. Bush* supporters are finally catching on to how repressive it really is.

2. They've totally lost the libertarians (the true libertarians, not the Neil Boortz kind)

3. They're using more and more disgusting techniques to thwart attempts to tone it down, thereby losing support of GOP lawmakers.

4. It really hasn't been all that productive. How many "evil-doers" have they caught using these provisions? How many plots averted?Anyone?

5. It gives tin foilers all the opportunities to stockpile their hats.
(not that they need any more)

Or is this just another "stay the course" pig-headishness?

[AspenRose]

1. Because they hate us for our freedoms.

eot

[Canuckistanian]

2. Good answer

Free people ask too many questions, stick their nose where it don't belong.

[AspenRose]

3. I suspect when I get my hair braided later this summer and

start showing more (9 wks pg) I'll be pulled over in airport checkpoints a lot more.

I'm just expecting it. Even though I'm no more a threat than the typical average American. Mocha skin and braids scream "militant" to some people I guess, for some reason.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Just wear a Bush Cheney '04 t-shirt

Just to screw 'em up.

[AspenRose]

8. Ewww

never in a million years :puke:

I'll just "assume the position."

And that "they hate us for our freedoms" quote is what they are always saying about the terra-ists. It's about time we took back the quote and use it CORRECTLY, in context with the Patriot Act.

[Canuckistanian]

9. Sorry if I spoiled your dinner

But I agree, take those words away from them. They don't know how to use them correctly.

[indepat]

5. So it's not really about keeping us (the nation) safe, but about targeting

the enemy within (those who would speak out against the cabal which controls all the levers of power). Shocking indeed.

[Canuckistanian]

It's just like Savage always says

The "fifth columns" (liberals) are far more of a threat that Al Qaeda.
Total and complete persecution complex.

[ronabop]

6. They cannot admit to error.

It's not just pigheadedness, it's a political tactic.

Accept no fault, no flaws. Shrub can't even say "shame on me", the best he can come up with is "can't get fooled again". Blatant errors are cast as "items which we are improving upon", past lies are "items where the truth is still unfolding".

-Bop

[Canuckistanian]

7. And the last thing he wants is to be called a flip-flopper

That sounds about right.

[donhakman]

10. 8 year plan