© Jabin Botsford/The Washington PostRep. Anna Paulina Luna attends a House Oversight and Accountability Committee organizational meeting on Jan. 3, 2023.
Luna didn't mince words with Breitbart: the Patriot Act, she said, has let "rogue actors" in our intelligence agencies erect a surveillance behemoth — unaccountable, sprawling, and the envy of every tinpot dictator in the world. Born in the post-9/11 hysteria, this legislative monstrosity gave the NSA carte blanche to rifle through our calls, texts, emails, and metadata without a warrant. All they had to do was whisper "terrorism" and call it "relevant."
The Patriot Act was pitched as a temporary shield against the specter of jihadists after 9/11. "They hate our freedom," we were told, as Congress set about eradicating that very freedom. Congress has been reapproving this abomination every few years like obedient lapdogs.
Meanwhile, the official 9/11 fairy tale — that a band of cave-dwelling fanatics outwitted the world's most advanced air defenses — has collapsed under its own weight. Speculation that the Israelis were involved has since swirled. And Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth have laid bare the absurdities, like Building 7 imploding on cue. The whole narrative has been a pretext. The Patriot Act was always the real prize. Remember, as Antony C. Sutton showed us, the ruling class regularly employs the Hegelian dialectic: create the problem, arouse the reaction, then offer the "solution" — thesis, antithesis, synthesis. The problem was "terrorism," the reaction was fear and loathing, and the "solution" was to strip Americans of their rights.
This wasn't just a one-off power grab. The Patriot Act became the cornerstone of a bureaucratic empire, spawning horrors like the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act's indefinite detention provisions. With a flick of a pen, any corrupt apparatchik could brand you an "associated force" of terrorism and toss you in a cell, no trial required. Due process? Shredded. Civil liberties? A fading memory. And who let this happen? The "pro-freedom" Republican Party, naturally.
© AFP Photo/Mandel NganRep. Mike Rogers(R-Michigan)
Let's cut the nonsense: the "foreign terror" bogeyman was "neocon" prestidigitation to dupe Americans into surrendering their rights. The real enemy isn't some desert warlord (or Iran); it's our own central government, a colossus that makes China and Russia look like boy scouts. Our real enemy is not a foreign nation but our own crushing federal behemoth. The deep state's ability to obliterate lives dwarfs any external threat. America won't soar until this domestic tyrant is beheaded. How about eliminating the TSA while they're at it?
The slightest possibility for the GOP's redemption lies in starving the federal beast and uprooting the laws that have fed its growth. Republicans sank the nation by embracing centralization. Decentralization is the key to liberty. We need a million "Covenant Rising" communities, like the one featured in my new book, The Cabal Question. Repealing the Patriot Act would be a blazing first step toward rediscovering decentralization, local power, and the liberties that once defined America. But I wouldn't hold your breath. We need to take the initiative and undertake Project Decentralized Revolution — on our own.
Reader Comments
When the three office buildings were dropped in Manhattan, that gave him (them) an opportunity to impose draconian laws that shredded the Constitution. 'Asset seizure', 'search and arrest, recording of personal conversations, both oral and written. Basically a permanent state of martial law for the American citizen.
The 'act' was only supposed to be in effect for three (?) years, but it keeps getting 'renewed'. It's got to be going on 23 years now, so the deep state must enjoy the control.
Canada lives like that 24/7, so I really pray that the Patriot act is buried because it's no way to live.
There isn't a dam thing one can do about it , they do what ever they want to and you have no recourse. You would half to prove you had it and prove just who took it then sue to get it back that is if you got the money to get a lawyer.
Beginning also in the 2000s we have the promotion of "far-right extremist domestic terrorists" as a Problem (reaction-solution), that had been set up by the Oklahoma City bombing by patsy Timothy McVey in 1995. That led to the targeting of Americans who didn't agree with the "policies" of Bush/Obama as "terrorists". That led to the January 6 false flag ' insurrection" as led by " right-wing domestic terrorists " who were imprisoned with Framed charges. This is neuro linguistic programming. This could have led to the fake Biden using the " Insurrection Act of 1807 " if any popular uprising occurred because of the 2020 soft-coup. This is why it was important for the "deep state" to Frame the Jan6 false flag as an " insurrection ".
"Terrorism", as a phrase, is now in routine use by corrupt governments in the world to eliminate those that oppose the government. (Always remember that the CIA, MI6, Mossad set up many "terrorist" organizations.) However, the Trump team has turned it by identifying the Mexican and South American drug cartels as "terrorist" organizations, which they are.
In other words, the Trump team is using the "terrorist" framing to get rid of the "deep state". What is the "deep state", covert "terrorism".
Its been argued that US nuke bombing Japan was a terrorist act. If it's true that the emperor was already talking peace, then that'd make it a war crime but while they deny that, they can call it whatever they like but it's still terrorism.
This sounds interesting.
Seems informing their government to inform their citizens would had been a better story.
More believable.
letscit45 The leaflet said;
Read this carefully as it may save your life or the life of a relative or friend In the next few days, some or all of the cities named on the reverse side will be destroyed by American bombs. These cities contain military installations and workshops or factories which produce military goods. We are determined to destroy all of the tools of the military clique which they are using to prolong this useless war. But, unfortunately, bombs have no eyes. So, in accordance with America's humanitarian policies, the American Air Force, which does not wish to injure innocent people, now gives you warning to evacuate the cities named and save your lives. America is not fighting the Japanese people but is fighting the military clique which has enslaved the Japanese people. The peace which America will bring will free the people from the oppression of the military clique and mean the emergence of a new and better Japan. You can restore peace by demanding new and good leaders who will end the war. We cannot promise that only these cities will be among those attacked but some or all of them will be, SO heed this warning and evacuate these cities immediately.
Have a wonderful day!
by Nate Bear May 15, 2025 [Link]
"The richest man in the world walks around with his child on his shoulders as a human shield to dissuade a head shot.
His rockets rain down on us and they explode and they devour the ozone layer.
He runs the empire and he bleeds it dry and still he won't stop or be stopped.
He is the richest man in the world and he is not happy.
He is angry and bitter that his son is now his daughter so we must all suffer and we can.
There are no risks of the mind.
The students are mindful and healthful.
They are studying business and they want to be rich.
If they were the richest person in the world they would be happy and they wouldn't have a child that they wear as a human shield.
The birds sing in broken choruses.
They are fewer now.
There is no getting the band back together.
Extinction is forever.
Hey, hey, humanité, how many birds did you kill today?
All we needed was dogs and bicycles, soil and water and music.
That was it!
What could have been.
The young know the feast is coming to an end.
The scraps and the scrapping.
We don't know how to live or what for, not really.
You feel it has always been like that even on the savannah or in the jungle but you don't know.
You might say these things to feel better for yourself and the others.
You don't know, not really.
Maybe it was always like this or maybe not.
There is war and pestilence and hunger and genocide.
How can it be that we have these things when we are so far forward in time? This was supposed to be the future.
Time is but a construct they say.
But I say no, actually. We are one thousand years forward from the year 1025 and that is objectively a long time in reference to a human life.
But they insist time is subjective and, well, who am I to argue.
Numbered years are the construct.
We don’t agree on this.
Tell me you’re not telling me you think there was a year zero?
We seem to have different ideas of time.
Should we be more? Should I?
The social fabric is tearing and the abyss beckons.
There is an evil man and he must be stopped and must die.
You go viral but it's best not to understand why.
The richest most famous YouTuber is something called Mr Beast and he crashes the world's most expensive cars for clicks to generate ad revenue which enables him to become even richer and crash more cars.
This is a sentence that should not exist.
The internet is shit now.
There is talk of him running to be the American President, Mr Beast.President Beast. Beautiful.
The internet can make it happen.
The internet is shit now or you are just old.
It used to be something you reached for, it is now an appendage of you.
We are outsourcing our brains, unthinking ourselves, scrolling into the abyss.
There was a pandemic and the virus lives embedded in all of us for eternity. It resides inside of humanity until the end of time.
Whatever that means and whenever it is.
Objectively it will come with the red dwarf and the supernova sun but it's pointless to worry about it now.
You’ll be long gone.
But for a boy, reading that the entirety of everything that has ever existed ever will one day not exist? It was a lot.
The finiteness of everything was a lot for a boy, when I read it.
I think about me then, now.
And what time has done.
I watch sports. SPORTS.
The football and the tennis, mainly.
They are owned by oil sheikhs and gas men. The sports.
A man kicks an inflated piece of plastic and his wealth grows beyond countries.
A woman hits a fluffy ball of rubber and she can dine like no one in history.
What a strange way to divide things up.
But no one seems to think like this.
So I keep watching.
So on we go.
It’s good to outlive monsters. To try at least.
I log on.
I scroll.
I for one welcome President Beast."
if Trump can do this. He becomes the greatest president of my generation hands down!!!
But a good deed nonetheless.
Or your just a fun loving guy I guess. My father in law was like that. Had a joke for every occasion. Loved that guy.