Kerry, a.k.a. Bush, supports faith-based initiatives

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Actually, all of these purported hateful and new police investigatory tactics the PA allegedly created were pretty much all (I do not know all of them ) avaiolable under other Federal Acts. So, all of this "the PA created unprecedented police power" is just not true. One of those other acts was RICO and the expansion of RICO into the civil arena. RICO was the IMO single largest blow to the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searchs and seizures and it has been on the books for years. Moreover, Congress and the courts have expanded the scope of RICO far beyond the original intent to capture the mob on intrastate racketerring charges. So, the PA, while still frightening to me, is really nothing new to me. Hopefully, it will expire.

Kerry is pushing to let it expire. W is not.