Now Playing: I will be damned ...there goes my Liberty
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS
The Senate has voted 89 to 10 in favor of the controversial reauthorization bill (H.R. 3199) which comes a day after passage of a related bill to "improve protection of civil liberties" in the war on terror. That was on Wednesday, March 1, when the Senate voted 95-4 to approve S. 2271, Sununu Amendments to the PATRIOT Act reauthorization bill.
Lets just say Joe Anybody is proud of how his Democrat Senator voted on this issue. Nice Job Wyden!
But!..... My Republican Senator for this here joe ...ya just as I thought A BIG "NO" vote from him!!!
How did your state senator Vote?
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Here is the Washington Post LINK to check their vote.
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With the House of Representatives passing the measure in December, it now goes to President Bush to sign into law. The House will vote on the Sununu amendments next week.
It approved the reauthorization bill last December.
I see that 16 provisions of the act set to expire next week, the measure would make 14 of them permanent and extend two others by four years.
Sad to say this wasn't fought for the right reasons like a true patriot would of done. Troubling times
we live in Z3 readers, ahhh but the spirit from an 88 year old congressman from West Virgina Sen. Robert Byrd, the dean of the Senate and its resident constitutional expert.
This article HERE explains his civil rights qwest
Byrd's reversal on the Patriot Act on procedural and constitutional grounds dovetails with his growing opposition to the Bush administration's handling of the war on terrorism.
He tried to block the creation of the Homeland Security Department, which he said would give too much authority to the president. He voted against the war in Iraq.
And in 2004, Byrd published a book that minced no words. In ''Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency,'' Byrd blasted his colleagues for failing to challenge Bush's polices and expanding executive power.
As for changing sides, Byrd's got a favorite phrase, from the poet James Russell Lowell:
''The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.''
......It's been a long day ...... so just one last comment; Sen Byrd said "This new proposal would erase too many of our freedoms guaranteed to the American people," Byrd added in a statement to The Associated Press. "In essence, this legislation says that the Bill of Rights is right no more."
His position allies him with another No voter,
Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis, a relative Senate newcomer who nonetheless foresaw potential problems with the "Original Patriot Act" before Byrd or any other member of the Senate.
And that was back in 2001, when -->
"Feingold., cast the lone vote against the new terror-fighting law."
Now these are two Civil Rights Patriot who's hand I would be Proud to shake!
