Why do the media keep calling it "THE PATRIOT ACT?"

[Syrinx]

That's not an official name, it's just a cheesy acronym.

The media are complicit in justifying this egregious piece of anti-American legislation, in my opinion.

Why do they do that?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. Because the Patriot Act has never been known by anything else. If....

...you're really asking why the mainstream media is doing this then I have to question where you've been for the last five years.

[Syrinx]

5. I've been here

But I've never been more amazed.

[Syrinx]

2. David Gregory is grilling Feingold

Katie (CBS, $100 million) Couric let Gonzales slide.

[Clark2008]

10. Well, that's more of a difference in reporting than shilling.

Gregory probably would grill Gonzales, too, because he's an actual reporter. Katie, however, is a "face" and wouldn't know how to report if you handed her an AP Stylebook and a told her the virtues of the inverted pyramid.

[The2ndWheel]

3. No time to say the whole thing

It's not doubleplusgood enough to take the time needed.

[LynneSin]

4. Why do they call it the "Clean Sky Inititatives"

even though we know if it were to pass the Skies would become much less clean than before.

Why do we call it the "No Child Left Behind" when we're finding out that a slew of children aren't just being left behind but totally forgotten because their test scores would skew results and hurt a schools standing.

It's a selling point. Patriot Act was much easier to sell then "We're about to pass legisilation that says we could even peak at what movies you're renting or library books you're borrowing"

[NNN0LHI]

7. "Operation Iraqi Liberation" or "OIL" for short n/t

[Syrinx]

11. yeah, Don!

Just sucking up! :)

[mrfrapp]

15. The War Against Terrorism n/t

[BOSSHOG]

6. Because such a sweet sounding title is easily sold

to the religiously insane and the KKK whom bush and his administration depend on to provide a base of support. How could any christian conservative yahoo in America be against the "Patriot" Act? Ask a run of the mill supporter of the Patriot Act to explain it to you and they will become mute. All they know, me vote bush, me hate liberals. Just as they were trained.

[ET Awful]

8. Because the name was specifically created to fit that acronym

They created the acronym first, they probably called an ad agency or PR firm in to come up the acronym, then a name to fit it.

The acronym most likely came first, it's a marketing ploy.

[Jazzgirl]

9. It is an acronym for....

"Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism". Hence....PATRIOT. Pretty sick.

[Syrinx]

12. well close

It's pretty sick.

[JohnyCanuck]

13. lt's another facet of the ongoing propaganda & brainwashing exercise

to control public opinion and allow for the creation of an Orwellian type security state without the dumbed down, heads up their asses Fox and CNN watchers being aware of what is happening to them. So far it seems to be working like a charm.

Brainwashing America
by Dr. Norman Livergood

<snip>

In an earlier article, I reviewed the varied aspects of personality profiling and simulation. While serving as Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department at the U.S. Army War College, 1993-1995, I conducted studies on profiling, psychological programming, and brainwashing. I explored and developed personality simulation systems, an advanced technology used in military war games, FBI profiling, political campaigning, and advertising. Part of my discovery was that:

* unenlightened human minds are combinations of infantile beliefs and emotional patterns

* these patterns can be simulated in profiling systems

* these profiling systems can be used to program and control people

Personality simulation systems are being used to create political campaigns that apply voter profiles to control their voting behavior. TV commercials and programs use personality simulation to profile viewers to control their purchasing and viewing behaviors. And sophisticated propaganda and brainwashing techniques are being used by the Bush junta to keep American citizens under control.

http://www.hermes-press.com/brainwash1.htm

[90-percent]

14. PAT ACT

And we all have to ask how this vile POS anti-constitutional legislation got written up and passed about 6 weeks after 9-11.

ALmost like it had already been drafted and was waiting for the right time to be enacted.

And it got voted in about 6 weeks after Pearl Harbor Part Deaux.

Woulda been nice if the government had the will to craft a national health care program in the same amount of time.

-85%

[JohnyCanuck]

16. Exactly

>>ALmost like it had already been drafted and was waiting for the right time to be enacted.<<

[Freedom_Aflaim]

17. Rest assured. The patriot act was already drafted prior to 9/11

It is essentially an FBI "wish list" of things they wanted.

After 9/11, it just was a matter of a little wordsmithing to fit the date and circumstances.

Actually alot of laws are written that way. Maybe most. At any time there are gun control laws sitting in lawmakers desks, waiting for some violent event to justify it. At any time there are Internet security laws in lawmakers desks, just waiting for another Internet event to justify it. The list is quite long.

Every lawmaker has his/her wish list. But they all generally wait for the right opportunity to propose it.