On October 26, 2001, President George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act, an anti-terrorism law drawn up in response to the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
The USA PATRIOT Act, as it is officially known, is an acronym for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.” Bush hoped the bipartisan legislation would empower law enforcement and intelligence agencies to prevent future terrorist attacks on American soil.
The law was intended, in Bush’s words, to “enhance the penalties that will fall on terrorists or anyone who helps them.” The act increased intelligence agencies’ ability to share information and lifted restrictions on communications surveillance. Law enforcement officials were given broader mandates to fight financial counterfeiting, smuggling and money laundering schemes that funded terrorists. The Patriot Act’s expanded definition of terrorism also gave the FBI increased powers to access personal information such as medical and financial records. The Patriot Act superseded all state laws.
While Congress voted in favor of the bill, and some in America felt the bill actually did not go far enough to combat terrorism, the law faced a torrent of criticism. Civil rights activists worried that the Patriot Act would curtail domestic civil liberties and would give the executive branch too much power to investigate Americans under a veil of secrecy—a fear not felt since the protest era of the 1960s and 1970s when the FBI bugged and infiltrated anti-war and civil rights groups.
The Patriot Act faced ongoing legal challenges by the American Civil Liberties Union, and some members of Congress who had originally supported the bill expressed misgivings. Nevertheless, a Republican-controlled Congress passed and Bush signed a renewal of the controversial Patriot Act in March 2006. Bush exacerbated the controversy over the renewal of the act by issuing a so-called “signing statement”—an executive exemption from enforcing or abiding by certain clauses within the law—immediately afterward. In 2020, the main provisions of the law expired.
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Dems put together a totalitarian wishlist, then shelved it because it wouldn’t fly.
Then a national crisis appeared, they dusted it off, and a useful idiot was willing to give it his autograph.
Aren’t you even beginning to suspect that the way it went down wasn’t anywhere near that straight forward or innocently mundane?
Exactly. Plus, there are no Dems – there’s just power. It’s been a continuum forever, no matter “who” is in.
The biggest POS that severed under the banner of the United States , but the Right loved this wormy, meritless, sot. ..go figure.
Best book on the Bush crime family that you will ever read.
Family of secrets: the Bush dynasty, the powerful forces that put it in the White House, and what their influence means for America Volume:
Russ Baker
IT SOMETIMES SEEMS that the entire story of George W.
Bush’s life has been rewritten by hired hands. As each exaggeration,
distortion, or factual error is uncovered, Bush has ducked and
bobbed; only rarely has he been forced to concede anything.
Just one of hundreds of such examples: During his unsuccessful
Midland congressional bid in 1978, W.’s campaign literature
described his wartime service as “Air Force”—a claim also made for
him in Poppy’s autobiography. Presumably both men knew the
difference between the National Guard and the Air Force.
Nevertheless, that claim remained in W.’s official biography until the
2000 presidential campaign, at which point the correction was quietly
made.3
On no subject were Bush and his team more intransigent than on
the particulars of his military service. One cosmetic concern was that
the favoritism shown young Bush in his National Guard assignment
did not fit the legend Karl Rove was developing for him. This was the
tough, no bullshit, “mano a mano” kind of guy, the cocky kid who
challenged his famous father to a fight, the self-made oilman in flight
jacket and cowboy boots, the straight-talking “ranch hand” with the
John Wayne swagger (“in Texas, we call that walking”). Even the
name of his campaign plane (Accountability One) was crafted to the
image. He could not be seen as someone who used family
connections to get a cushy home-front assignment while thousands
of his peers went off to die in Vietnam.
Until May 23, 2000, the efforts of Bush’s team to keep their man’s
military record from public view seemed to be succeeding. Then,
with Bush closing in on the GOP presidential nomination, the Boston
Globe ran a story headlined 1-YEAR GAP IN BUSH’S GUARD
DUTY: NO RECORD OF AIRMAN AT DRILLS IN 1972–73. Reporter
Walter Robinson had obtained and reviewed 160 pages of military
documents. It was Robinson who first interviewed Bush’s former
commanders, only to discover that none could recall Bush
performing service during that period.
The Globe’s revelations gave rise to a veritable cottage industry
of bloggers, with citizen journalists launching their own inquiries,
complete with their own Freedom of Information requests.11
Together they provided sophisticated, rigorous analysis of the fine
points of military procedure and record keeping
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=468CA61331BEDABEAB0827CDB69DA75F
That rant is very funny, considering you actually support Oz over Fetterman. You still can’t see they are the same picture.
“Look past the flesh, Mr. Anderson. Look past these dull cow eyes and see the face of your Enemy!” – Agent Smith
One quote, jelly baby , where I say that I support OZ ? How did you become so stupid ? Was it genetics or die to some tragic accident ?
BTW, I never voted for Dubya, but I’d bet your momma’s virginity that your did, twice.
Do you even Ron Paul , bruh?
I want a US Senator to be able to know when to say goodnight rather than the retard the Pennsylvanians are seriously considering.
Read the book, and it is an excellent read. Most Americans still do not know pappy Bush was 100% CIA.
Well, yeah, he was a CIA Director before his gig as Pres.,,,,,right?
I knew that at.the time I voted for Ross.
War criminal POS.
Like all the rest, except JFK.
And ever since then flying has been an absolute hellscape. The 4th amendment went right out the window should the feds decide to “investigate” you. I was a young stupid man when I supported these turds. What 20 years can do for one’s political acumen.
Amen, brother.
Testify, y’all.
George Bush is a traitor and should be tortured to death.
At Gitmo – by the as yet uncharged or tried prisoners of his war, who have lived there for decades.
I see a POS surrounded by an axis of evil
I don’t know which garbage piece of legislation is the worst 1 in US history, but if the “patriot” act isn’t #1, it’s gotta be in the top 3. I can’t think of a single other thing that did more to kill our Constitution – maybe 16th or 17th amendment or obama’s EO that allows propaganda against US citizens, maybe?
Years from now, when they look back at the shambles of western civilization, I’m confident historians will point to the unPatriot Act as the largest step in our collapse.
The CONstitution killed our first constitution: the Articles of Confederation. America lasted 11 years, 1776-1787, until the Euro bankster mafia/secret societies axis took it over:
On May 25th, 1787, a group of 55 men gathered for a closed meeting in Philadelphia. Officially, it was being convened to discuss alterations to the then constitution of the United States of America: the Articles of Confederation. Some state legislatures had authorized their representatives to attend the meeting only on this basis, explicitly prohibiting them from considering a new constitution. To make certain that the general public did not find out about the nature of this conspiracy, the convention members swore an oath not to discuss any proceedings with the public…for the rest of their lives. The only first-hand accounts of the proceedings were published several years later after the death of the last survivor, James Madison, in 1836. The press was forbidden to attend. The meetings were held on the second floor of the building, so that would-be eavesdroppers could not hear anything. The new constitution would become the law of the land whenever nine state conventions ratified it. This was in explicit violation of the Articles, which required a unanimous vote for amendments. Thus did a group of men launch a coup-d’etat. This coup established a new national covenant in 1788, a covenant stripped of the Articles’ invocation of God, “The Great Governor of the World,” with only the old country’s name transferred for public relations’ sake: the United States of America.
http://www.garynorth.com/philadelphia.pdf
This is the conclusion I came to before I even read the details of the conspiracy. They were foolish men, but everything is inverted now.
And, remember, folks … this law was put together by Bidet back in the ’90s … and look at how he’s using it against US every day — not to protect the United States … but to destroy any political or other opposition to ‘the party’ …
George Bush is a traitor and co-conspirator in the mass murders on September 11, 2001. He must be tried and executed by the old Apache Indian manner of being staked out naked in the middle of a Red Ant bed, and then honey poured over him.
Look at all those traitors. Threw away our human rights with the stroke of a pen.
Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!