Matt Kibbe and Thomas Massie talk about the dark implications of such a program, comparing it to China's social credit system and vaccine passport program that was conceived during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Tag - privacy
This guide takes an in-depth look at FOIA history and the importance of exercising your right to know.
The Patriot Act failed miserably to thwart terrorist acts, but it successfully helped to usher in a constant police state of government surveillance and the collection of digital information over the web.
The IRS, the FBI, or the Federal Reserve, are all at minimum aconstitutional if not outright unconstitutional and yet, they continue unchallenged to this day.
21 years later, we can see the Patriot Act for what it truly is: an overreach in power by our government and a threat to the civil liberties of all Americans.
Americans around my age and younger have never really known a world without the Patriot Act's influence.
As a one-time supporter and believer in the Patriot Act, I can now say there is nothing at all patriotic about the Patriot Act, and it is time for it to be removed from the books.
Like so many government policies, the Patriot Act is a shell game, promising to protect us from enemies abroad but instead being turned inward to persecute American citizens.
History is only valuable if we are able to learn from the mistakes of the past and prevent them from recurring in the future.
Hurry! Break the glass and pull the alarm! Tear the acrylic dome off the Batphone—WAIT! Better yet, alight the Bat Signal! Stop the presses! Get the commissioner on the line! Dial 911! Dial 911 again, hang up, then call the police precinct directly, so that they know that This. Is...