I'd be ok with us throwing out every bit of law enacted Sept 2001 and after.
Then closely re-examining these one by one and put back in, I'd bet not 10% of it makes sense to do in a non-fear induced populace.
But the problem is, once you give up freedom easily, it is very difficult to get back if ever.
To help fix this we could do a few things:
- There should at least be a 2 year window for any terrorism law where there is no possibility of renewal after the event. A new bill covering the same would need to be in review for 2 years.
- If we want law that sticks without horrible details, we need to remove fast tracking. Bills about freedoms should be public and in discussion for years.
- Bills should also only be named SB[number] and HB[number] and no marketing / 'freedom' propagandized bill titles.
The real patriot act would be repealing the Patriot Act. Then writing a new one with a numeric code, that has to be discussed on the details of that bill, not the name. The bill would have an automatic 2 year expiration with no chance of renewal, and then this debate is brought up every 2 years. This needs to be an issue in every election.
These are just short term hacks. The problems we are dealing with are third or fourth order consequences of the size of the defense budget.
These issues will disappear if budgets shrink or get reallocated towards "peace" goals rather than "defense" goals.
Then closely re-examining these one by one and put back in, I'd bet not 10% of it makes sense to do in a non-fear induced populace.
But the problem is, once you give up freedom easily, it is very difficult to get back if ever.
To help fix this we could do a few things:
- There should at least be a 2 year window for any terrorism law where there is no possibility of renewal after the event. A new bill covering the same would need to be in review for 2 years.
- If we want law that sticks without horrible details, we need to remove fast tracking. Bills about freedoms should be public and in discussion for years.
- Bills should also only be named SB[number] and HB[number] and no marketing / 'freedom' propagandized bill titles.
The real patriot act would be repealing the Patriot Act. Then writing a new one with a numeric code, that has to be discussed on the details of that bill, not the name. The bill would have an automatic 2 year expiration with no chance of renewal, and then this debate is brought up every 2 years. This needs to be an issue in every election.