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Nebraska Senate 2020 - Ben Sasse (R) vs Chris Janicek (D)

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PATRIOT ACT PROVISIONS MUST CONTINUE: IS THIS A NECESSARY EVIL?

Or not.

Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska supports the elongation and continuing provisions of the Patriot Act. His vote along with many others supported and enabled the United States Congress to extend these provisions because it is these provisions that have kept us safe since the September 11th attacks. 

So the wiretapping, enhanced surveillance, and intelligence has really paid off? It took a different Oval Office to actually find the world's most wanted man. I think that it is all about what the Oval Office really wants to do. Our previous administration had about eight years to find one man and couldn't do it.

I do not think that these provisions must continue. When we have the world's greatest military, political power, and operatives like the CIA we are already being spied on enough. Our social security numbers are documented, surveillance is already everywhere. Why does it need to go deeper than that? Is the patriot act still appropriate? Are we still willing to give up our rights more than ten years after the fact under the impression that our government is infringing on our rights to "protect" us? Will the country see the continuing act as a rights violation or will they put their heads down and accept? Congress certainly made it clear that they don't mind the government's interference in the citizen's rights. Neither does Senator Nelson. 

I guess the previously reblogged photo is right: if you repeat a lie often enough, sooner or later it becomes politics. 

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