Originally Posted By Labuda Know what's sad? That I'm not at all surprised my rep (Michael McCaul, the richest man in the House of Representatives) voted no, but that he actually showed up to vote. Must mean the Republican leadership was scared that they might fail, so they made losers who don't work often actually show up.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I don't care because this will not affect one person here. And there's a 99.999999999999999% chance it won't affect anyone else that we know either.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Honestly yes. Unless it affects me or the people I know, I'm not wasting my time worrying about tinfoil hat theories that we're all going to be locked away on a whim.
Originally Posted By fkurucz ^^^What's tinfoil about it? The law gives the president the ability to do that. The real threat to our freedom isn't Al Qaeda, Hamas, or any other terrorist group. The real threat is from within.
Originally Posted By fkurucz And less we be quick to forget, during WW2 we imprisoned thousands and thousands of Americans, whose only crime was to have a Japanese family name. So yeah, it does happen. And now the president has a tool that makes it even easier to do it.
