Oct 27, 2020
On today’s episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Dave and Sam
discuss the USA PATRIOT Act.
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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