Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004): Reading the Patriot Act

The clip reading the patriot act from Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) with George W. Bush, John Conyers

There's nothing about the Patriot Act I am ashamed of...
...in any way, shape or form.
I have a 1-800 number. Call me.
I'm the guy you call if there's a violation or an abuse.
If you've got a poster child on this, I wanna see it.
I'm hired by the people to provide oversight. I provide oversight.
Trent Lott said, the day the bill was introduced:
"Maybe now we can do things we've wanted to do the last 10 years."
No, a dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, no question about it.
I mean, they had all this on the shelf somewhere.
Ideas of things they would like to do. And they got 9l11...
...and they said, "It's our chance. Go for it."
There was an assumption of the administration...
...that there had to be a surrender of certain of our rights.
There's troubling definitions in the bill.
The definition of terrorist, it's so expansive...
...that it could include people who...
Like me.
No one read it. That's the whole point.
They wait till the middle of the night, drop it in the night, print it in the night.
And the next morning when we come in, it passes.
How could Congress pass this Patriot Act without even reading it?
Sit down, my son.
We don't read most of the bills.
Do you really know what that would entail...
...if we were to read every bill that we passed?
Well, the good thing, it would slow down the legislative process.

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