Spying on All USA Citizens Will Continue

Guess what happened this week when everyone in the mainstream media and unfortunately many print outlets were reporting almost explicitly on the Impeachment news?

The Patriot Act got re-instated. 

You remember, the good ole Patriot Act? The one that had a sunset provision, which means it would’ve just, ya know, ceased to exist? You know the Patriot Act I’m talking about, the one that expanded NSA spying powers to be able to read every single text message, e-mail, Facebook message, Instagram DM, Twitter DM, Snapchat story, phone call, and all other forms of electronic communication that is sent from any private citizen? You know the one, where those same unelected bureaucrats can literally spy on you through your webcam? 

The renewal of this basically means that all of that would’ve stopped in December of this year, but because of a sneak clause in the Stopgap Funding Bill, it got renewed for another 3 months. What was the reason they gave to begin warrantless, unconstitutional spying of ALL American citizens? To stop terrorism of course. 

Ask yourself. How many terrorist attacks have been stopped as a result of the Patriot Act? According to History.com:

Depending on whom you ask or what you read, the Patriot Act may or may not have prevented terrorism. According to a 2015 Washington Post article, the Justice Department admitted, “FBI agents can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act.” But a 2012 report from the conservative Heritage Foundation states 50 terrorist attacks have been thwarted since 9/11, with 47 being the direct result of the work of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. They claim the Patriot Act is essential to helping law enforcement identify leads and prevent attacks.

So who do you trust, a conservative (Right Wing) think tank? Or the actual Department of Justice who is a part of the government who ran the program? Of course the right wing think tank is going to side with the right wing president and right wing government of 2001 who signed this act into law. But would the Department of Justice purposely lie to make the law look meaningless? I think you know better than that. If anything, they’d lie in the direction that makes it look BETTER. But, they came up with a big fat donut. So why renew it?

Because Republican officials get what they want because they are Grizzlies who actually fight for it, regardless if it’s based on principle or not. Democrats are weak little teddy bears who fold at the slightest opposition to their ideas. Plus corruption on both sides of the aisle, and boom. 

So while all of you are too busy paying attention to whether or not Trump is going to be impeached, tried, and kicked out of office (spoiler alert, he’s not), I’ll continue to show you all the REAL shit that’s happening in the country.