Barcepundit acierta señalando la hipocresía de los izquierdistas que criticaban la Patriot Act durante el mandato de Bush, pero que miran para otro lado ahora que la mayoría demócrata, durante el mandato de un presidente demócrata, la ha renovado por otro año en el Congreso sin añadir ninguna enmienda que refuerce la protección de la privacidad.
Pero no todos están así de calladitos. Algunos liberales americanos siguen oponiéndose a la Patriot Act con la misma fuerza que antes, y denuncian la hipocresía izquierdista a la que alude Josep Miquel. Un ejemplo, el muy ronpauliano Justin Raimondo:
The shamefaced Democrats are too cowardly to openly acknowledge their contribution to the destruction of the Constitution: instead, they’re hoping we don’t notice more Democrats than Republicans voted for the extension of this odious Act. At one point, the Dems were hinting that they might want to "reform" the Act, and put in certain "privacy protections," but they soon gave that up and now their media amen corner is busy demonizing "anti-government zealots" who dare to question the ongoing government takeover of … practically everything. (...)
The "PATRIOT" Act, all several hundred pages of it, was passed in the dead of night without being read, without being adequately debated, and with the full official approval of both parties, who unhesitatingly wiped out two-hundred years of constitutional law in a procedure that lasted for less than an hour.
“The president’s reversal on Patriot Act reform is a major travesty,” says Michelle Richardson, the ACLU’s legislative counsel, a bit of phraseology that just about sums up the first year of Obama’s reign. All those liberal hearts, broken by that seductive love-’em-and-leave-’em Chicago smoothie – except no one’s complaining.
El Cato Institute propone una reforma parcial de la Patriot Act en su Cato Handbook for Congress.
