Comment on Jet Fuel

• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Created before 9/11

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  • SuperIce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was introduced on October 23rd 2001 in direct response to the 9/11 attack and signed into law on 26th.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995 had many of its rejected proposals recycled as the USAPATRIOT Act of 2001

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      • IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t doubt that many proposals were made well before 9/11, but that attack certainly proved a catalyst in getting them approved.

        Basically: we want to control citizens > citizens don’t want to be controlled > create a scenario in which they want to be controlled > control citizens

        Might take a few years between implementation and the desired result, but politics is always a slow march towards authoritarianism.

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