well ASTAC, thats cool. Do your duty (if so inclined) and contact your elected reps and let them know how you feel, so they can take that into account next time they do the right thing and extend the patriot act.
Like I said, there is a check and balance system in place to prevent the abuse of power. Some of the limpier wristers would have us think the PA is exempt from congressional/judicial oversight, it is not. If it were, I would be in the front of the line dangling my limp wristies.
Two new changes that I have heard being proposed for the PA involve allowing a prosecuter the ability to appoint a new jury in the penalty phase of a trial if the first jury failed to impose a death sentance as requested by the prosecuter. This coould be a problem (it could be a solution to a problem....) anyway, I dont like it. Go for a mistrial and retry. The other change involved adding 300+ new definitions to the list of terror crimes punishable by death. I dont know what they are, but the artical also stated that there was congressional resistance to both proposed changes.
