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Letter: Government violating citizens’ rights Posted: Friday, June 14, 2013 1:57 pm Letter to the Editor President Barack Obama says he is hunting down terrorists by using the Patriot Act to tap our phones and read our email. I think Obama is cherry picking the evidence to justify that. Less than 1 percent of the people arrested under the Patriot Act have been arrested for terrorist crimes. Over 50 percent of the arrests under the Patriot Act have been for victimless drug war crimes. I think Obama is at war with not with terrorists, but with the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the American people. Mike Ross Tempe According to this article: arrests for Patriot Act violations are 1,618 for drug war crimes, 122 for fraud and 15 for terrorist crimes According to this article: 62 percent of Patriot Act arrests were for drug war crimes, less then 1 percent were for terrorist crimes
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