On the recordJanuary 6, 1999
Congress risks provoking a voter backlash if we fail to halt the growth of the surveillance state.
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Ron Paul
Congress risks provoking a voter backlash if we fail to halt the growth of the surveillance state.
Warning about public backlash against privacy invasions.
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Safety is the only thing that I care about. Both economically and physical safety is the driving force and it's also the destruction of liberty.
I think there has been a few of us who have been warning about this, and voted against the Patriot Act, voted against these FISA courts. So it doesn't surprise me a bit.
With midterms right around the corner, the hard truths are setting in and impossible to deny with honesty.
Power in government is almost always abused and this is abuse and it isn't Democrats and it isn't Republicans, it's both of them.