Feb 09 2011
LA Times: House GOP fumbles on Patriot Act renewal
Reporting from Washington — The Republican-led House failed to pass an extension of expiring sections of the Patriot Act on Tuesday, an unexpected setback for GOP leaders that shows the difficulty they face in controlling their majority and its “tea party”-inspired members.
Time is short: Key provisions of the terrorist surveillance law expire at the end of the month. A coalition of veteran conservative Republicans and new GOP lawmakers joined many Democrats in blocking passage of the measure, which many tea party activists see as federal government overreaching into private affairs.
The bill required a two-thirds vote to pass but fell seven votes short. Now, the White House and congressional leaders must devise a new strategy, and fast, or the provisions will lapse Feb. 28. The administration wants to extend the Sept. 11-era provisions through 2013. The House bill would have extended them until Dec. 8.
One Response to “LA Times: House GOP fumbles on Patriot Act renewal”
I wanted to alert those that are not aware that not ONLY is the US gov’t a hypocrite when it states that it supports democratic ideals in OTHER countries, we should know 1st hand that IN THIS country historically, it has continually and systemically failed to support it and has more often than not, conversely BLOCKED true democracy–so let me alert you to a not-so-new phenomena that I’m an unfortunate newer victim of—organized gangstalking & remote neural monitoring–both part of a on-going and what I and others believe is a recent ramp up of what amounts to crimes against humanity—secret and wholly INVOLUNTARY mind control pogrom. Now I know secret mind control pogroms may sound like science fiction to most but if you research, the govt’s Mk-Ultra program has been in existence since at least the 70’s and perhaps prior to that. Bad publicity (like Co-intelpro’s) forced the govt to publicly disavow the pogrom, but we ALL know that just means it went even further underground. So what do I mean when I say “mind control”? I mean to proclaim ( and I know this will lead a lot of people to think me mentally ill, but believe me, it’s truth), that the US gov’t and other gov’ts as well have in their possession technology that can read “sub-vocalized thoughts”–in short, you know when you are talking to yourself and not out loud? well those thoughts can be translated and “read” via technology. Yes, I know it sounds like I’ve been watching too many sci-fi movies, but believe me it’s real and if you seek out the info online, you will come across many people JUST like me who have never met, have no connection to one another besides the fact that we have been randomly targeted for what amounts to nazi-like involuntary human experimentation BY the gov’t JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN. I am no terrorist, political activist nor threat to the national security of the US, yet I Am an average citizen–with little money, power or access, and this, as we know historically, is one of the favorite demographics that the US loves to experiment on and oppress in any way they can. Now, I’m not saying the gov’t is only using minorities as guinea pigs in the name of “amoral” scientific uses; but again, historically marginalized communities get the brunt of anything diabolical the US gov’t happens to have up it’s duplicitous sleeve–can you say Tuskegee? (it seems favorite targets for this program seem to be women, blacks, veterans, homeless, gays & lesbians, jews, among others, but if you don’t belong to any of aforementioned groups, don’t despair, b/c I believe those currently being targeted are just the beginning–eventually I believe the plan is to unleash this technology on the entire population). This is a historical and factual truth. If you want to educate yourselves on this phenomenon, pls google the terms: organized gangstalking & remote neural monitoring and also pls visit a site dedicated to targeted individuals, such as: http://www.areyoutargeted.com , they will give further credence to my assertions. Again, this phenemona is not new, yet it seems it has been expanded imo since the Patriot Act has given the gov’t vast leeway in whom it targets basically for what amounts to systemic torture: 24/7 surveillance, harrassment, voice to skull electronic transmissions, directed energy attacks, stalking where ever the targeted individual goes, etc. Again, it sounds like science fiction but it’s real and it’s the biggest human rights abuse story that’s yet to be told. I’m telling my story b/c I have nothing to lose and I refuse to suffer in silence, but again, there are many, many more like me, and the only way I know how to fight is to tell my story and to sound the alarm, particularly in the black community that this is going on and YOU could be next. Not b/c of anything you do, but b/c the US Gov’t has become so contemptuous of humanity and it’s “stated” goals, that anything goes—if it’s possible that it can lead to a firmer grip on power at any cost or if the possibility of making money is there—the gov’t will DO anything to not only foreign populations (Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, etc, etc, etc) but again, as history has CLEARLY shown—it won’t hestitate to act in kind against it’s own citizens.