{"id":56377,"date":"2021-01-09T09:57:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T14:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56377"},"modified":"2021-01-09T09:57:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T14:57:56","slug":"the-boot-is-coming-down-hard-and-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56377","title":{"rendered":"The Boot Is Coming Down Hard And Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/01\/09\/the-boot-is-coming-down-hard-and-fast\/\">The Boot Is Coming Down Hard And Fast<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-9349\" class=\"post-9349 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-trump tag-biden tag-censorship tag-patriot-act tag-politics tag-speech tag-twitter\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/medium-4.jpg?fit=862%2C485&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/medium-4.jpg?w=862&amp;ssl=1 862w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/medium-4.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/medium-4.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"485\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>A lot\u2019s been happening really fast. It\u2019s a white noise saturation day and it\u2019s impossible to keep track of everything going on, so I\u2019m just going to post my thoughts on a few of the things that have happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/IxNz5\">has announced<\/a>\u00a0plans to roll out new domestic terrorism laws in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Biden has said he plans to make a priority of\u00a0passing a law against domestic terrorism, and he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them,\u201d\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/andrewkaczynski\/surveillance-joe\">has often boasted<\/a>\u00a0about being the original author of the US Patriot Act?<\/p>\n<p>The first draft of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/other\/myths-and-realities-about-patriot-act\">civil rights-eroding<\/a>\u00a0USA PATRIOT Act was magically\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.preceden.com\/timelines\/50405-usa-patritot-act\">introduced one week after the 9\/11 attacks<\/a>. Legislators\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sunlightfoundation.com\/2009\/03\/02\/congress-had-no-time-to-read-the-usa-patriot-act\/\">later admitted<\/a>\u00a0that 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<p>This was because most of the work had already been done. CNET\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ritholtz.com\/2011\/12\/the-core-of-the-patriot-act-was-drafted-in-1995-%E2%80%A6-by-joe-biden\/\">reported the following<\/a>\u00a0back in 2008:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMonths before the Oklahoma City bombing took place, [then-Senator Joe] Biden introduced another bill called the\u00a0<a class=\"gtrackexternal\" title=\"Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995\" href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d104:s.00390:\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boot Is Coming Down Hard And Fast A lot\u2019s been happening really fast. It\u2019s a white noise saturation day and it\u2019s impossible to keep track of everything going on, so I\u2019m just going to post my thoughts on a few of the things that have happened. \u2756 Biden\u00a0has announced\u00a0plans to roll out new domestic [&hellip;]<\/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":[24298,67,17039,120,3484,1320,613],"class_list":["post-56377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-911-2","tag-beliefs","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorship","tag-dissent","tag-joe-biden","tag-patriot-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56377","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=56377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56378,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56377\/revisions\/56378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}