Eliot Spitzer Snagged by Patriot Act
Put this in the delicious irony department.
by Jeff Davis
Legally speaking, guess what actually netted New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, aka “Client Number Nine?” The Patriot Act!!! You know, that draconian and un-Constitutional piece of security legislation that Dubya and his little Jewish friends vowed and swore would never be used against ordinary American citizens, only against wicked, dark-skinned, Muslim terrorists?
Newsweek magazine reports: “When Congress passed the Patriot Act in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, law-enforcement agencies hailed it as a powerful tool to help track down the confederates of Osama bin Laden. No one expected it would end up helping to snag the likes of Eliot Spitzer. The odd connection between the anti-terror law and Spitzer’s trysts with call girls illustrates how laws enacted for one purpose often end up being used very differently once they’re on the books.”
Say what? Why, who could have imagined such a thing, here in America? You mean those people who said that privacy was important and we should resist moving to a 1984-style police state were right?!!! (more…)