So much for the White House’s assertion that they only use the “Patriot” Act power in limited and logical ways. The whole system is set up to automatically intrude into a broad array of citizens’ activities. Incidents like the one below illustrate how routinely it intrudes with no concern about whether a citizen’s behavior poses any reasonable cause for suspicion of terrorist activity.

And an alarm went off. A red flag went up. The Soehnges’ behavior was found questionable.

And all they did was pay down their debt. They didn’t call a suspected terrorist on their cell phone. They didn’t try to sneak a machine gun through customs.

They just paid a hefty chunk of their credit card balance. And they learned how frighteningly wide the net of suspicion has been cast.

Read The Providence Journal article Here

- Ed Lacy
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