OURSELVES AS PAT ANSWER PATSIES

Pat answers are the pattern of the scoundrel peddling patriotism.

The pat-riot act of the with-us-or-else crowd is beginning to show its iron intent. Even some in Congress too scared to oppose swimming in the red tide have come to question the un-American Patriot Act.

To debate the suspension of the Constitution is bad enough, but voting to suspend the American Bill of Rights, flimsy as they are, is the prime indicator of lunacy and irresponsibility in the media, the Congress, and in the public at large.

The red herring of terrorist threats are no excuse to give back what we bled for and snatched from the first King George. And to trust the current king g with royal power, in view of his party's and staff's cynicism and arrogance, is really dumb, even for Congresspersons normally inclined to despotism.

Holding human beings in jails and debating torturing them, and how to torture them, and using American law to try justifying it is about as morally bankrupt as we want to go. But the real test is not whether kidnapping, rendition to our axis of evil allies in terror, or just allowing them to die rather than admitting error are wrong, but that if it is allowed in these cases, will it become normal in normal courts. Using the ol' red herring to grease the slippery slope, as it were.

Wake me up when you decide high crimes, never mind the misdemeanors, are too much for you.

Although the NRA will protect our right to own anti-tank sidearms, no one is looking after my right to say that the other rights are being marginalized.

The prisoner who has been abused will say anything you want after a point. After a critical time, what he knows becomes unimportant. If my terrorist got captured, I would assume anything he knows is known to my enemy, therefore, I would change all routine procedures. What are we thinking when we violate all laws to deal with law violators?

We are behaving like some very bad actors, and like them, we are calling it Patriotism.

Heil und -30-bobby