OT: US Pres election

[Edratman]

I had a brain fart today and decided to actually look at the Patriot Act. The actual act itself may have been written in Etruscan for all I was able to make of it (I did determine that I will never be bored to death).

The following is an excerpt I obtained from a White House site on the Dept. of Homeland Security and its purpose:

"Protect the American people, our critical infrastructure, and key resources. To protect the lives and livelihoods of the American people, we must undertake measures to deter the threat of terrorism, mitigate the Nation's vulnerability to acts of terror and the full range of man-made and natural catastrophes, and minimize the consequences of an attack or disaster should it occur."

To my slightly (sic) offbeat thinking, it appears to me that Patriot Act allows the government to charge many in the financial industry with terrorism and ship them to Cuba or some other black site for perpetual limbo.

I'm willing to send a substantial check to the Barbed Wire Fund if it would help.