Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) penned a lengthy op-ed at Fox News calling for the PATRIOT Act’s unconstitutional mass surveillance program to be extended indefinitely. The Florida senator has staked his claim as an anti-privacy 2016 Presidential candidate, and firmly cemented himself as an enemy to libertarians.
Now Rubio applies his limited critical thinking skills to the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program, saying:
“This year, a new Republican majority in both houses of Congress will have to extend current authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and I urge my colleagues to consider a permanent extension of the counterterrorism tools our intelligence community relies on to keep the American people safe,” Rubio wrote in a Fox News op-ed.
Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) took a swipe at Rubio, asking if the Florida senator wouldn’t mind offering himself up for government surveillance.
“If Senator Rubio believes that millions of innocent Americans should be subject to intrusive and unconstitutional government surveillance, surely he would have no objections to the government monitoring his own actions and conversations,” Polis said. “Maybe after his 2016 strategy documents are accidentally caught up in a government data grab, he’ll rethink the use of mass surveillance.”
Today’s episode of the Freedom Report podcast debunks many of the myths from government fearmongers about the realistic fears of terrorism. Should we sacrifice our liberty for a false sense of safety? Or should we protect the constitution, the 4th amendment, and the right to be secure in our persons, places, and effects from unreasonable searches and seizures?
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