The Patriot Act was written quite some time before 9/11. This is important to understand when you see a video like this beginning by saying that the Patriot Act was "passed" in response to 9/11. The Weimar Constitution was passed after the Reichstag burned to the ground. It too, was written well before the problem that it was the solution for.
"The "Freedom Act" is quite free with its Orwellian redefinition of common words to mean the exact opposite of what they have traditionally meant: for example, the bill defines a "selector" in such a way as to permit NSA to report a dragnet order collecting everyone’s VISA bill as a single order targeting specific alleged terrorist outfits – when, in the real world, it would legalize surveillance of over 300 million US citizens. No wonder Deputy NSA Director Richard Ledgett says that under the terms of the bill "the actual universe of potential calls that could be queried against is [potentially] dramatically larger."
It might have been written but it wasn't passed until October 26, 2001 after 9-11. Prior to its passing, it had always been rejected by Congress. Our government panicked after 9-11.
When you know that this was written well before an event that the PNAC document (Also written well before 9/11) said we need -- (a "Pearl Harbor-like event") it becomes clear why these are presented as solutions. The age old Problem-Reaction-Solution model that we are chumps to not collectively recognize as history repeats itself over and over again.
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The Patriot Act was written quite some time before 9/11. This is important to understand when you see a video like this beginning by saying that the Patriot Act was "passed" in response to 9/11. The Weimar Constitution was passed after the Reichstag burned to the ground. It too, was written well before the problem that it was the solution for.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/11/16/the-usa-freedom-act-is-a-fraud/
"The "Freedom Act" is quite free with its Orwellian redefinition of common words to mean the exact opposite of what they have traditionally meant: for example, the bill defines a "selector" in such a way as to permit NSA to report a dragnet order collecting everyone’s VISA bill as a single order targeting specific alleged terrorist outfits – when, in the real world, it would legalize surveillance of over 300 million US citizens. No wonder Deputy NSA Director Richard Ledgett says that under the terms of the bill "the actual universe of potential calls that could be queried against is [potentially] dramatically larger."
It might have been written but it wasn't passed until October 26, 2001 after 9-11. Prior to its passing, it had always been rejected by Congress. Our government panicked after 9-11.
When you know that this was written well before an event that the PNAC document (Also written well before 9/11) said we need -- (a "Pearl Harbor-like event") it becomes clear why these are presented as solutions. The age old Problem-Reaction-Solution model that we are chumps to not collectively recognize as history repeats itself over and over again.
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