Patriot Act reauthorization.

A thought that occurs to me listening to intelligence officials on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act is that the only word these modern day government officials seem to be able to pull out of their kit bag on this is "tools." "Tools" for this, "tools" for that, and "tools" for some other thing. Well, [a pox on] your tools.

Some commenters like to talk about "exigent circumstances" (Fox's Kimberly Guilfoyle) and "patterns" but it's all garbage. No one has pointed out how any of these records have led to actionable intelligence.

Cost-benefit analysis? I'll take "cost" for $200, Alex.

Eric Bolling on FoxNews' "The Five" today stood his ground on the 4th Amendment which seems not to contain the words "tools" or "patterns," and if "exigent circumstances" arise let the Supreme Court address that new wrinkle in the context of collecting phone records. Rand Paul bravely focuses on freedom.

We are indebted to these two men. It's about freedom. It's about the 4th Amendment. Government will forever talk about some grave threat but it's never how they represent it. "It's an emergency" or "This won't hurt a bit" are justifications for tyranny.

Extremely exigent circumstance.

Government has no credibility on this. It has always cried "emergency" of some kind but the reality is that government is the threat. The accretion of laws and regulations – and of treasonous federal court decisions – has destroyed liberty in the country. Fire (or refuse to hire) an incompetent minority -- or one who wants to wear a tent to your salesroom -- from (or for) your business and you can kiss that business goodbye.

The Constitution is a joke.^[1]

If government wants to cry "emergency" let it seal the borders, expel illegal immigrants, stop importing Muslims, and require Muslims already here, on pain of immediate deportation, to declare the Koran a work of distilled evil and to abjure their jihadi "faith."

But, no. What we'll hear about is "tools."

The only reason we're even having this debate is because of the absurd, deadly presence of Muslims in our country. A problem completely unaddressed by "nation of immigrants"/"diversity is our strength" morons.

Notes
^[1] Rights protected by the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment still receive effective protection in the courts, with much hair splitting and soul searching on the Second. The First will undoubtedly erode before the claims of "hate speech," the demands of advocates of the destruction of Christian America, and the cries of those in need of cake at homosexual weddings. Article I, Sect. 8 of the Constitution long went the way of the dodo bird and the Roman Empire, the representatives of the unholy, monstrous, usurping Federal Government now attempting to beguile us with talk of "tools."