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Well its about time! Sheesh.
Fuck yeah!
Please be permanent please be permanent please be permanent please be permanent...
I sympathize, Me, but I believe there are at least three or four additional courts at the Federal Appellate, Federal Circuit and Supreme Court levels that could drag this decision out, and provide opportunities for reversal.
And I don't doubt for a minute the Feds will continue to appeal, and that a final outcome on the case won't see the light of day until well after shrub has retired to the $50,000 a pop lecture circuit.
It's the USA PATRIOT Act, not the PATRIOT Act.
USA USA USA!! (@5 because let's be honest, otherwise people might confuse which country we're supposed to support with our patriotism.)
@5, I know. That's what I hate about legal rulings: half the time they mean nothing, especially the ones where the judge makes a ruling, and then with the next bang of his/her gavel stays it.
Still, it is nice to see a judge come out against it (as if it's happened before, I've never seen it).
Katelyn, it's not about countries or patriotism. It's about uniting and strengthening America by providing appropriate tools required to intercept and obstruct terrorism. I think referring to it by anything other than its full name makes it too easy to forget how manipulatively it was named.
@8
Someone worked long and hard to come up with that title, didn't they? They had to find enough vowels and everything. Yuck.
Kelsey, "yuck" is putting it nicely.
They worked long and hard to come up with the title and they worked long and hard to write the legislation -- probably longer than the time between September 11, 2001, and enactment of the Act. Neoconservatives had been wanting this sort of thing for a long time. 9/11, like "a new Pearl Harbor," was the perfect excuse to enact it. They benefited greatly from 9/11. They were in the positions to prevent 9/11. They told us who did it, then they first refused to investigate, then performed a bullshit investigation, ignored any evidence that didn't support their story, and told us the same story again. Most Americans are satisfied with this situation.
The Mega-Lie Called the "War on Terror": A Masterpiece of Propaganda
By Richard W. Behan, AlterNet
Posted on September 27, 2007, Printed on September 28, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/63632/
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