On today’s episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Dave and Sam discuss the USA PATRIOT Act. You can read the full article at Ammo.com: https://ammo.com/articles/usa-patriot-act-history-eviscerated-americas-civil-liberties
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The USA PATRIOT Act provides a textbook example of how the United States federal government expands its power. An emergency happens, legitimate or otherwise. The media, playing its dutiful role as goad for greater government oversight, demands "something must be done." Government power is massively expanded, with little regard for whether or not what is being done is efficacious, to say nothing of the overall impact on our nation's civil liberties.
No goals are posted, because if targets are hit, this would necessitate the ending or scaling back of the program. Instead, the program becomes normalized. There are no questions asked about whether the program is accomplishing what it set out to do. It is now simply a part of American life and there is no going back.
The American public largely accepts the USA PATRIOT Act as a part of civic life as immutable, perhaps even more so than the Bill of Rights. However, this act – passed in the dead of night, with little to no oversight, in a panic after the biggest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor – is not only novel, it is also fundamentally opposed to virtually every principle on which the United States of America was founded. It might not be going anywhere anytime soon, but patriots, liberty lovers and defenders of Constitutional government should nonetheless familiarize themselves with the onerous provisions of this law, which is nothing short of a full-throttle attack on the American republic.
You can read the full article “The USA PATRIOT Act: The Story of an Impulsive Bill that Eviscerated America's Civil Liberties” at Ammo.com.
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- The USA PATRIOT Act: The Story of an Impulsive Bill that Eviscerated America's Civil Liberties: https://ammo.com/articles/usa-patriot-act-history-eviscerated-americas-civil-liberties
- The 9/11 Attacks: Understanding Al-Qaeda and the Domestic Fall-Out from America's Secret War: https://ammo.com/articles/9-11-attacks-understanding-al-qaeda-americas-secret-war
- The TSA and Security Theater: Understanding American Airport Security Following 9/11: https://ammo.com/articles/tsa-airport-security-theater-guide
- Resistance Library: https://ammo.com/articles
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