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Prepare To Have Your Worldview Obliterated<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The first draft of the civil rights-eroding<\/a> USA PATRIOT Act was magically introduced one week after the 9\/11 attacks<\/a>. Legislators later admitted<\/a> that they hadn\u2019t even had time to read through the hundreds of pages of the history-shaping bill before passing it the next month, yet somehow its authors were able to gather all the necessary information and write the whole entire thing in a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was because most of the work had already been done. CNET reported the following<\/a> back in 2008:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMonths before the Oklahoma City bombing took place, [then-Senator Joe] Biden introduced another bill called the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995<\/a>. It previewed the 2001 Patriot Act by allowing secret evidence to be used in prosecutions, expanding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and wiretap laws, creating a new federal crime of \u2018terrorism\u2019 that could be invoked based on political beliefs, permitting the U.S. military to be used in civilian law enforcement, and allowing permanent detention of non-U.S. citizens without judicial review. The Center for National Security Studies said the bill would erode<\/a> \u2018constitutional and statutory due process protections\u2019 and would \u2018authorize the Justice Department to pick and choose crimes to investigate and prosecute based on political beliefs and associations.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s bill was never put to a vote<\/a>, but after 9\/11 then-Attorney General John Ashcroft reportedly credited his bill with the foundations of the USA PATRIOT Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCivil libertarians were opposed to it,\u201d Biden said in 2002<\/a> of his bill. \u201cRight after 1994, and you can ask the attorney general this, because I got a call when he introduced the Patriot Act. He said, \u2018Joe, I\u2019m introducing the act basically as you wrote it in 1994.’\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prepare To Have Your Worldview Obliterated The first draft of the civil rights-eroding USA PATRIOT Act was magically introduced one week after the 9\/11 attacks. Legislators later admitted that they hadn\u2019t even had time to read through the hundreds of pages of the history-shaping bill before passing it the next month, yet somehow its authors were able to gather all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24298,17039,5262,1252],"class_list":["post-52261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-911-2","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-usa-patriot-act","tag-worldview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52262,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52261\/revisions\/52262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}