More Details of the new Patriot Act (2)
Newly interpreted detiails of the “Intelligent Authorization act of Fiscal year 2004” (Patriot act 2)
The new “Patriot Act (2)” (see Section 374 of the act), lets the FBI acquire records through an administrative procedure whereby an FBI field agent simply drafts a so-called national security letter stating the information is relevant to a national security investigation.
And the law broadens the definition of “financial institution” to include the following businesses:
- insurance companies
- travel agencies
- real estate agents
- stockbrokers
- the U.S. Postal Service
- jewelry store
- casinos
- car dealerships
The law also prohibits subpoenaed businesses from revealing to anyone, including customers who may be under investigation, that the government has requested records of their transactions.
Bush signed the bill on Dec. 13, a Saturday, which was the same day the U.S. military captured Saddam Hussein.
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January 7th, 2004 at 5:37 pm
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January 7th, 2004 at 7:06 pm
Freedoms are important. Library Records are very personal. If you want the evildoer here, stop the ppl from publishing books about how to make terriost bombs.
January 8th, 2004 at 8:52 am
This bill sucks as much big blue monkey butt as the PAI does for sure. I see the Bush controlled media said nada about it as they were instructed to focus on the capture of Sadam.
fodder for pondering on….
Exactly what is a ‘terriost bomb’? Is it different from say a bomb the US Military uses on some defensless third world country? Is it different from a bomb used during an actual war defending our country? Should we stop the writing of only those books or of all bomb making books? Should we stop the writing of any books at all? Our fore fathers fought hard for the Freedom of Speech and hey, they used what we would call ‘terrorist’ actions!
hmph!
doIg
yo ramdac! I’ll login as asoon as I dig up the UID/PWD I have somewhere around the house….hmm, maybe its near the toilet…hehe.
January 8th, 2004 at 10:04 pm
The bombs that fell on Bagdad were paid for by taxpayers. Bombs made at home to kill innocent ppl well i guess that is what i am calling terrorist.
I read about a newletter promoting sex with children, I dont think Our fore fathers fought for anything written like that. I believe in freedoms, but are there no limits to what we can write about.
Our fore fathers didnt use “terrorist actioins” either, we simply declared ourselves a separate country. Oh, there was the Boston Tea Party, but I wouldnt compare that to 911 and car bombs.
hmph
January 9th, 2004 at 10:16 am
good points there. I just find it so interesting to step back and look at history and see how some vocab/ideals change so over time. Some periods these change drastically, others not so. Are we now at the event horizon of drastic change in this idea of freedom? Or are we still riding the wave of such colosal change begun by our fore fathers? Or are we just living in Van Gogh’s Absinthe filled world?
reminds me of a song….
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose” — Joplin
ciao
dUg
February 4th, 2004 at 12:08 pm
so i don’t know what to write about all your articles. but i just wanted to say hi. to my old friend. how are you jason. i hope wonderful.
lets talk soon. much love. karen