[geeks] 4th Amendment Gone

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 @ 20:05 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 07:04:29PM -0600, phoetoid wrote:
> > Read about the patriot act at all?  there are some very interesting 
> > things that were STATED about it by DoD spokespeople, when in reality, 
> > the document actually says very different things. I wrote a long essay 
> > about if for my government class this year, it was a fun subjec to read 
> > about.....but made me pretty angry. I mailed my paper to my 
> > senators/representatives....nothing ever reply tho :(
> 
> Yup.  And Congress was intentionally not allowed time to read it before
> they voted on it.

How can Congress not be allowed to see it before they vote?

First of all, they acted illegally, immorally, and unethically if they
voted on something they never saw.

Second, by what precedent were they presented with a vote like this?

I've heard this repeated several times, but haven't been able to
confirm it.  I'm not sure I believe it.	

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