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Courtesy of the guys at The Ombudsgod!, check out this post over at Eugene Volokh's site about the number of complaints received by the Justice Department having to do with the notorious PATRIOT Act. Poster Orin Kerr writes that in the latest report:
DOJ received 1,943 complaints about alleged civil liberties abuses. Of these, 1,748 either did not warrant an investigation or were outside DOJ's jurisdiction[...]The report itself continues (my emphasis added):
Approximately three-quarters of the 1,748 complaints made allegations that did not warrant an investigation. For example, some of the complaints alleged that government agents were broadcasting signals that interfere with a person’s thoughts or dreams or that prison officials had laced the prison food with hallucinogenic drugs. The remaining one-quarter of the 1,748 complaints in this category involved allegations against agencies or entities outside of the DOJ, including other federal agencies, local governments, or private businesses. We referred those complaints to the appropriate entity or advised complainants of the entity with jurisdiction over their allegations.How very desperately Leftist America wants there to be a police state! They would be so much more justified in their casual observation that the Bush Administration is the Fourth Reich.
Shameful shit.
Those who would presume to call this country a police state deserve to be locked up. Maybe even in a concentrated way. Because, for people who so earnestly believe this sort of gibberish crawling out of their own pieholes, it would be a fitting thanks from the rest of us to help them [confirm their theories].