PATRIOT Act II takes care of the rest of your pesky civil liberties

February 20, 2003—A Washington-based watchdog group uncovered recently proposed legislation authored by the sociopaths in the Bush administration that would steal even more of the nation's civil liberties.

A Georgetown University Law professor and author of "Terrorism and the Constitution," Dr. David Cole, said the legislation, called the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, "raises a lot of serious concerns. It's troubling that they (the Justice Department) have gotten this far along, and they've been telling people there is nothing in the works."

Cole warned that this proposed law "would radically expand law enforcement and intelligence authorities, reduce or eliminate judicial oversight over surveillance, authorize secret arrests, create a DNA database based on unchecked executive suspicion, create new death penalties and even seek to take American citizenship away from persons who belong to or support disfavored political groups."

The Center for Public Integrity (CPI), the Washington-based watchdog group, obtained a draft of what analysts call a sequel to the USA PATRIOT Act or PATRIOT II. The Bush administration rammed the onerous USA PATRIOT Act down the throat of a spineless Congress in the hysteria that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Most of the lawmakers never even read the lengthy bill that civil libertarians warned compromises the nation's 215-year-old constitution.