{"id":2520,"date":"2011-02-11T07:50:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T14:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2011-02-11T07:50:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T14:50:25","slug":"demand-justice-not-the-patriot-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/02\/11\/demand-justice-not-the-patriot-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand JUSTICE, not the PATRIOT Act!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to go on the offensive! Here’s the action alert Bill of Rights Defense Committee just sent out. Please help by using POPVOX to support the reintroduction of the JUSTICE Act<\/a>, and getting the word out widely in email, via Facebook, and on Twitter. The House is expected to vote again early next week so now is a critical time to make some noise!<\/em><\/p>\n

– jon
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\"\"<\/a>Ten years after passing the USA PATRIOT Act, Congress is again debating this enormous expansion of government power. With three provisions set to expire at the end of this month, and Tuesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s revolt in the House against fast-track reauthorization, there has never been a better time to insist that Congress restore constitutional rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Take action now. Demand that your congressional representatives support meaningful reforms through the JUSTICE Act.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A law so extensive that many members of Congress admitted to having never read it, the USA PATRIOT Act has been in place for too long\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand there has been too little debate on its dramatic expansion of executive power\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto allow a reauthorization without debate.
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\nMillions of Americans from across the country\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand the political spectrum\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhave already raised their voices calling for limitations on PATRIOT powers. Although he now supports extending the PATRIOT Act, President Obama himself joined this chorus of opposition during his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

Several reauthorization bills have been introduced in both the House and the Senate, but none of them would put meaningful limits on any of the PATRIOT Act powers that have been repeatedly abused.<\/p>\n

Raise your voice today! Insist that your members of Congress check and balance the Executive Branch by introducing and supporting the JUSTICE Act, instead of rubber-stamping PATRIOT powers.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you for helping defend our nation’s most fundamental values.<\/p>\n

Shahid Buttar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time to go on the offensive! Here’s the action alert Bill of Rights Defense Committee just sent out. Please help by using POPVOX to support the reintroduction of the JUSTICE Act, and getting the word out widely in email, via Facebook, and on Twitter. The House is expected to vote again early next week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[25,54,75,149,162,262],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-tales-from-the-net","tag-activism","tag-bordc","tag-civil-liberties","tag-fisa","tag-getfisaright","tag-patriotact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}