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eltristan · 2 months ago

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Never forget that the USA PATRIOT Act was supposed to be short-term and temporary -- and although the Act "expired" in 2020, all Federal agencies have retained and will retain the powers originally granted by USA PATRIOT Act -- "Zero. That's the number of substantiated USA PATRIOT Act civil liberties violations." -- why did they feel the need to lie about it so much and wrap it in so much obfuscation?

...never forget...

#four airplanes of SAUDI ARABIAN hijackers accomplished their goal of fucking over US Citizens royally!#how?#by providing the PRETEXT for making all American Citizens LESS FREE forever #passing the USA PATRIOT Act to “protect Americans from terrorism” -- a law which took away rights and protections andncivil liberties #it took those civil liberties FROM US -- not from the TERRORISTS -- let me reiterate: FROM US #oh #and this'll probably get me on the “NO FLY” list for sure :-(#if you were wondering

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