TBO.com - TBO is Tampa Bay Online

Highlands Today

Patriot Act

ADVERTISEMENT

Richard Snyder

Published: February 7, 2008

Thank you Mr. Ludacer for serving as a U.S. Navy radar observer and currently as a self -appointed lookout to express your concerns about things you feel could endanger our country; specifically you're repetitious letters condemning the "Patriot Act."

Time changes everything including our methods of defense. I think everyone would agree that a good form of covert intelligence, if it were available then, would have been a much more effective defense than radar or lookouts, even as far back as the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.

When our founding fathers drafted the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, little did they realize the United States would be involved in a war with a bunch of religious fanatical nutcases wanting to destroy America 232 years later? The drafters of those historical documents were all great Americans and patriots, but Nostradamus wasn't one of them.

The above drafted articles are a part of our American history just as the Patriot Act legislation will also be 232 years from now. The Protect America Act is scheduled to expire early February. It is essential that Congress acts to make the legislation permanent. It's absolutely a necessity for our internal security.

We should be much more worried if our government failed to use every tool available to to protect us and combat the Islamic extremists. I say this to my government, "Do what you have to do to protect our country, my family, our people and the freedoms we now enjoy."

Give it a rest. The Patriot Act is here to stay and will probably have to be revised and rewritten several times in the next 200 years because of the ever ending development of new technologies. 1 do not fear the Patriot Act because I have nothing to hide. I'm certainly not concerned that someone will steal my Aunt Millie's famous secret chili recipe, your favorite fruitcake recipe, or Bush's Secret Baked Bean recipe, which only his dog Duke knows. Here's another Bush secret the bashers can write about.

Richard Snyder
Avon Park

Share this:

Loading Comments...

Email Print

ADVERTISEMENT