Today’s winner is …. The Patriot Act.
Perhaps President Bush should designate the funerals of returning soldiers as special events of national significance. New provisions in the Patriot Act (see excerpt below) would then allow the Secret Service to step and put an end to it. Why not put the Patriot Act to some good use? We do not need any new laws to stop the anti-soldier, anti-gay, God is punishing you protesters. The Secret Service can just arrest them. Tired of all the screaming surrounding the political conventions, just call the Secret Service. Hate the atmosphere of dissension as the pro-life and pro-choice groups march – no problem. I hope that you see where I am going with this train of thought. I can not think of any group of protesters who are so deserving of this as the idiotic hateful antics of the Rev. Fred Phelps, his family, and all whom contend that American soldiers are being killed in Iraq as vengeance from God for protecting a country that harbors gays, It/They is/are so wrong in so many ways.
The potential abuse of power lays buried within the sections of The Patriot Act awaiting their ascendancy.
As for the Rev. Phelps and his group of collective nuts (my opinion) – your zero’s.
US Patriot Act TITLE VI—SECRET SERVICE
SEC. 601. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Secret Service Authorization and
Technical Modification Act of 2005’’.
SEC. 602. INTERFERENCE WITH NATIONAL SPECIAL SECURITY
EVENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1752 of title 18, United States Code,
is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:
‘‘(1) willfully and knowingly to enter or remain in any posted,
cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area of a building or
grounds where the President or other person protected by the
Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting;’’;
(B) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) as
paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), respectively;
(C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(2) willfully and knowingly to enter or remain in any posted,
cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area of a building or
grounds so restricted in conjunction with an event designated
as a special event of national significance;’’;