Statements Related to Parts of the PATRIOT act were written long before 9/11

• FBI uses the PATRIOT act to spy on regular criminals instead of suspected terrorists like they're supposed to. (2+/0- justifications)
• President Obama passed a recovery act that created millions of jobs, many for teachers, firefighters, and police officers (1+/0- justifications)
• The website recovery.gov allows taxpayers to see how the government spends every dollar of the 2009 Recovery Act (1+/0- justifications)
• All people act in self-interest (1+/0- justifications)
• The PATRIOT Act was written before 9/11 (1+/0- justifications)
• Parts of the PATRIOT act were written long before 9/11; conservatives have been attempting to enact the most troubling provisions since Reagan (1+/0- justifications)
• US officials were authorized to use illegal "enhanced interrogation techniques" by the "torture memos" written by Jay Bybee, John Yoo, and other Office of Legal Counsel attorneys (0+/0- justifications)
• None of the PATRIOT act was written just prior to and specifically because of 9/11 (0+/0- justifications)
• More than 1 in 30 adults in Washington DC are HIV positive-- higher than parts of Africa (1+/0- justifications)
• Free software is the (long-term) future of software. (2+/0- justifications)
• The U.S. should release prisoners arrested for violent crimes who subsequently act nonviolently (1+/0- justifications)
• Ludditism has a long history (1+/0- justifications)
• Increased patent filing fees in the America Invests Act (AIA) are a tax on innovation (1+/0- justifications)
• In the U.S. a partnership is formed any time two or more persons act together to conduct business and share any profits (1+/0- justifications)