(OiP)— President Obama has signed the Patriot Act that has lengthened it’s lifespan another year, starting on March 1, 2010– another 365 days of no privacy protections.

Still, the opportunity existed where Obama could have chosen to no longer wiretap the phones of everyday American citizens, and seize their property without a warrant.

So, how are the everyday American’s reacting? Our responses were short & sweet–

“The silence is deafening…” says Duane Longhofer, 48, from Lake Zurich, Illinois.

“Very disturbing & disappointing…” says Christine Garrott, an Actress originally from Pittsburgh, PA.

The Bill was passed, once again, by Congressional Democrats earlier this week and continues to undermine our freedoms as We The People.

This extension of The Patriot Act was seeked by Obama in late 2009, despite being publicly criticized by civil liberties and human rights groups that believed it would extend Bush-Cheney anti-terrorism policies that those same Democrats were against.

“Well, the controversy here is that it’s the Democrats who passed this thing without so much as whisper of protest,” said RT America Producer Lucy Kafanov.

” I mean for years we heard about the democrats railing against the patriot act as the very antithesis of democracy and all of the civil liberties that America stands for. We heard so much about how the Patriot Act is less about fighting the ‘War on Terror’ and more about unchecked police surveillance, wiretapping, and illegal searches of homes and offices of private American citizens.”

According to the Washington Times, the business record provision allows FBI investigators to seize financial, medical, library and “other records” of  “suspected terrorists”.

The three reauthorized portions are

  1. Reauthorization of court-approved roving wiretaps (follows the surveillance target) that permit surveillance on multiple phones.
  2. Reauthorize courts to approve the capturing of records and property in designated anti-terrorism operations.
  3. Reauthorize surveillance on Lone Wolf fighters, a non-U.S. citizen engaged in terrorism who may not affiliate themselves with any terrorist command structure, i.e. al-Qa’ida, Taliban, and Aum Shinrikyo.

The ink has marked Presidential Approval after the U.S. House of Representatives voted 315-to-97 last Thursday to reauthorize Big Brother’s follicles.

“It’s just an odd almost submission to Bush-era policies by folks who are presumably in power and can make these changes that they have for so long about championed. ” Kafanov remarked in the on-screen interview.

“The Patriot Act came to symbolize everything that could go wrong in a society that trampled on Civil Liberties in the name of ‘The War on Terror’.”

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