Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Proposes to ‘Strip’ Deep State Surveillance Tools by Repealing PATRIOT Act

[Tall Timbers]

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on Wednesday proposed legislation to eliminate the intelligence community’s surveillance tools that “erode” Americans’ civil liberties.

“For over two decades, rogue actors within our U.S. intelligence agencies have used the PATRIOT Act to create the most sophisticated, unaccountable surveillance apparatus in the Western world,” Luna said in a written statement to Breitbart News.

Luna introduced the American Privacy Restoration Act, a bill that would repeal the USA PATRIOT Act, a sweeping September 11th, 2001 terrorist bill that drastically expanded government surveillance.

Elizabeth Goitein, Senior Director for the Liberty & National Security program at the Brennan Center for Justice, described how the post-9/11 law dramatically increased warrantless surveillance of Americans’ communications:

Exclusive — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Proposes to 'Strip' Deep State Surveillance Tools by Repealing PATRIOT Act

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna proposed legislation to eliminate the government's surveillance tools that "erode" Americans' civil liberties.

www.breitbart.com

The Patriot Act has been used as the foundation for all kinds of unConstitutional activity by the US govmint against its citizens. God bless Rep Luna for trying to get it repealed.

 

[Margery]

Praying she succeeds. I remember being shocked when I saw the Patriot Act brought in, figured it went totally against the principles of American freedom, and was a complete over reaction to 9-11.

It was odd.

Americans were punished by removal of some of their cherished freedoms while Muslims were protected from criticism. Instead of using Israeli methods of Airport Security to spot and question those who were obviously up to no good, we got the whole airport TSA thing which again, penalized the innocent in order to not make the likely suspects feel upset.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

How I was treated by TSA the last time I flew commercial is the biggest reason I will never fly commercial again.

Private, military, or charter (maybe/depending), fine.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

With the AI genie out of the bottle, repeal of PA may be a moot point.

Add in blockchain, realID, and digitalization of everything, and very little doubt (to me, anyway)

 

[Baby Yoda]

Americans were punished by removal of some of their cherished freedoms while Muslims were protected from criticism

May have been the beginning of good becoming evil, and evil becoming "good"

 

[Batman]

May have been the beginning of good becoming evil, and evil becoming "good"

This is a scriptural quote/adage that my mother has used 1000s of times and still uses at 81.

 

[Baby Yoda]

This is a scriptural quote/adage that my mother has used 1000s of times and still uses at 81.

I use it all the time.