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A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1) QUOTES

1 " The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, intact for over 200 years, guaranteed that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath of affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. After September 11th, 2001, those were just words on an old piece of paper, no longer a restriction of the Government’s overreaching power to shake down its subjects. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

2 " The Bill of Rights wasn’t enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

3 " The law is logical and is based on common sense. The trick was to argue the law in favor of your particular point of view without sounding biased. It was kind of like a magic trick: the best illusionist being the one who can best manipulate the logic to his or her advantage, all the while giving the illusion of impartiality. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

4 " He was right, and the pursuit of justice was also a game, where one man or woman employed by the Government, or sometimes twelve men and women, decided the fate of another. Whether or not that decision was just depended on your point of view. The winner usually thought it was a just result: The loser bore the consequences. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

5 " How could you have a war on terrorism when war is terrorism? "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

6 " A Libertarian’s just a Democrat whose vote doesn’t count. Same thing. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

7 " But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

8 " The Patriot Act has practically obliterated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. It was supposed to be temporary, but there are so many things that the Government likes about the power that it gives, they keep renewing it. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

9 " Because of the destruction of the Afghan and Iraqi infrastructure, the enormous problem of policing, the incredible expense of rebuilding, and the $700 billion U.S. defense budget, it was foreseeable that the “military conflict” there could go on for decades, to the delight of military contractors like Halliburton, Lockheed and General Dynamics. War is good for business. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

10 " The CIA was always looking to tie every kind of criminal activity in the Middle East to al Qaeda. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

11 " It was William Penn who said, “Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” Brent knew that there was nothing right about this place and the way the prisoners were treated, and he was determined to do whatever he could to change that. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

12 " Guano-mo, huh? The neo-Nazi concentration camp "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

13 " It’s not torture. It’s ‘enhanced interrogation techniques. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

14 " Dude, this transcends politics. George W. Bush is wiping his ass with the Constitution. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

15 " Apparently, after 20 minutes of waterboarding, not only will you admit allegiance to Osama bin Laden, you’ll gladly die just to have relief. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

16 " I’m sure that all of you have heard about your “Constitutional Rights.”  Actually, you don’t have any “Constitutional Rights.”  In 1791, the first Congress, recognizing that we humans have certain inalienable rights that nobody has the right to take away, drafted ten amendments to the United States Constitution that we call the “Bill of Rights.”  The Bill of Rights wasn’t enacted to give us any rights.  It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)

17 " George W. Bush said, “It will take time to restore chaos.” Brent was about to confront Bush’s creation head on. "

― Kenneth Eade , A Patriot's Act (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #1)